Junior doctors should be trained in commissioning, say Future Forum education leads

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Postgraduate medical education and training should include modules on commissioning and give more priority to generalism, the House of Commons health select committee has heard. Doctors have an important role in determining where resources should go so should receive training in commissioning, John Tooke, head of the School of Life and Medical Sciences at University College London, told the committee in its third oral evidence session on medical education, training, and workforce planning. “I see an opportunity in …