Recruitment “disaster” may occur if Shape of Training review is poorly implemented, trainees say

Abstract

Poor implementation of last year’s major review of postgraduate medical education and training could have “a disastrous impact” on the future recruitment of doctors, trainees have warned. Doctors on the trainee committees of four royal medical colleges have published a joint statement in response to the UK-wide Shape of Training review, which was led by David Greenaway, vice chancellor of Nottingham University, and published in October 2013.1 The trainees welcomed many aspects of the review, including its recommendations for broad based training and increased flexibility during training. But they warned that …