Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on August 10, 2004
Rheumatology 2004 43(12):1468-1472; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keh335
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Rheumatology Vol. 43 No. 12 © British Society for Rheumatology 2004; all rights reserved
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Rheumatology curriculum: passport to the future successful handling of the musculoskeletal burden?
Department of Rheumatology, Leicester Royal Infirmary, 1 Department of Rheumatology, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, 2 LNR Postgraduate Deanery and 3 Leicester Warwick Medical School, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Correspondence to: A. Samanta, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK. E-mail: ash.samanta@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
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Introduction |
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Rheumatic conditions are common in both hospital [1] and community [2] settings. However, this high incidence is not reflected in the coverage of rheumatic disorders in the undergraduate medical school curriculum [3]. Specific training in rheumatology is usually at specialist registrar level and, to a limited extent, in general practitioner vocational training schemes. Consequently, the management of musculoskeletal disease is very dependent on what is learnt as an undergraduate. Undergraduate training, therefore, needs to be sufficiently robust to equip doctors with the necessary competencies to deal with the rheumatic diseases they are likely to encounter in practice. For this paper we have reviewed the literature on undergraduate training across the UK to see how equipped newly qualified doctors might be.
In a survey of medical students who commenced their training in 1981 and 1986, it was found that the practical experiences gained by the
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A generic curriculum |
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The current position regarding undergraduate rheumatology teaching in the UK |
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What should be done regarding undergraduate teaching in rheumatology? |
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