Core Medical Training
A Short guide to Core Medical Training in Yorkshire
This introduction supplements the local Trust and departmental induction that you will receive. For an overview of the structure see Heirarchy of Programme - on the left. We hope that your training in Yorkshire will be a positive experience.
The CMT programme is one part of the new Yorkshire School of Postgraduate Medicine. The programme creates the structure and processes needed to:
- plan your rotations
- run the recruitment process
- deliver the educational programmes which back up your clinical experience
- administer your record of training (ePortfolio)
assess your progress - supervise the quality of training, including gathering your feedback on posts
The CMT programme is split into two parts, West (about 135 posts this year) and East (about 70 posts).
The ePortfolio and the curricula.
The introduction of the ePortfolio is an important step, and you must become familiar with this - those of you who have completed a Foundation programme already will be. Improvements to the portfolio will continue as experience and feedback increase. You will receive a personal password for your portfolio soon after your post starts. Your Educational supervisor and Clinical Supervisor will receive separate passwords to allow them to access the portfolio when needed (such as in preparing for an appraisal meeting).
The portfolio will record the details of your appraisal meetings, your workplace based assessments, and will contain your Record of Competencies. As you use it you will find that it is closely related to the General (Internal) Medicine Acute and Generic Curricula. This is quite deliberate, and I urge you to study both the curricula – they are easily found on the Joint Royal Colleges Physician Training Board (JRCPTB) site (this is the body which is now in overall control of training in medical specialties).
The portfolio will be an important aid to your new Clinical Supervisor when you move between posts.
The other important point about the portfolio is related to assessment. Achieving satisfactory results in the various components of the portfolio at various timepoints is required for progression through the programme. This process has been called RITA for registrars up to now; for you it will be the Annual Record of Competency Progression.
We will give you more information about how to use the portfolio, the workplace based assessments, and the overall assessment process soon after you start. In the mean time please read the ePortfolio FAQ. Much of what you need to know about is already available on the websites of the nhsePortfolio (www.nhseportfolios.org.uk) and the Joint Royal Colleges Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB). This is the successor body to JCHMT and is at www.jrcptb.org.uk .
Please see the page on Appraisal and Assessment as this provides current guidance on workplace based assessments and the current JRCPTB guidance on the minimum standards for the assessment processes that you will undergo.
Trainee Forums
We want feedback on how all these changes are being implemented, and each local programme director will be creating a regular meeting to discuss your experience, held every 6 or 8 weeks. Each hospital will also need to have an Associate College Tutor, nominated/appointed from among yourselves, to create an agenda for those meetings and to act as a link person with the local programme director. Please see the trainee section for the names of representatives in your hospital.
The Gold Guide.
This is the document which sets out the ‘rules’ for your training and supervision, replacing the Orange Book which has set the rules for Specialty Registrars since the Calman reforms in 1996. A copy of the full guide can be downloaded from the Royal College
page updated 17/06/08