Abstract
Emergency medicine trainees have warned that they risk becoming deskilled because they are carrying out fewer procedures than their predecessors. The Emergency Medicine Trainees’ Association and the BMA held a meeting on 25 July to identify ways of improving trainees’ working lives. Among the issues discussed at the event were concerns that emergency medicine doctors were becoming deskilled because they were relied on to triage rather than treat patients. Sarah Payne, a year 5 specialty trainee (ST5) in emergency medicine, said, “A big problem we have is that you get these skills as a fairly junior trainee, but you then go to departments where you cannot practise them as higher trainees. When you become a consultant you have lost confidence in yourself. You then can’t supervise your juniors to perform them, and it just becomes a self fulfilling cycle.” She added, “Unless we have consultants …
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