Postgraduate medical education: rethinking and integrating a complex landscape
Dowton, S.Bruce.; Stokes, M-Louise.; Rawstron, E.J.; Pogson, P.R.; Brown, M.A.
Medical journal of Australia 182(4): 177-180
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-729X PMID: 15720174 Document Number: 592378
A key responsibility of the healthcare system is to develop a sustainable workforce through education and training. The complexity of postgraduate medical education and training in Australia requires: recognition that there are many stakeholders (junior medical officers, registrars, teaching clinicians, health departments, governments, colleges and society) with overlapping but competing interests and responsibilities; a national dialogue to clarify the necessary resource investments and to assign explicit accountabilities; and improved coordination and governance, while maintaining appropriate flexibility. In other countries, stronger mechanisms of governance for oversight of postgraduate medical education have emerged, and Australia can learn from these.