We make no apologies for starting the New Year with an issue that will challenge and test
even the most experienced medical teacher. In this issue a number of papers describing …

Objective The first year of postgraduate work for newly qualified doctors in the UK, the pre‐
registration year, is spent working intensively in training posts under supervision. Our aim …

There is a tendency in medical education at the moment to bring together the postgraduate
and the undergraduate into a set of unified frameworks. We see examples in regulatory …

Objective This study set out to establish why some new doctors view their training as a
valuable period in their professional development, whereas others see it as a year to be …

Medical Education 2010: 44: 449–458 Context Medical education in the UK has recently
undergone radical reform. Tomorrow's Doctors has prescribed undergraduate curriculum …

Professionalism lies at the heart of clinical practice and this issue of Medical Education is
dedicated to papers exploring aspects of the educational processes involved in learning …

The past 50 years-and even the past 20 years-have seen almost revolutionary change in
medical education, which has emerged as a distinct discipline during that time. The …

The UK shares many characteristics with other western developed countries, including a
current adherence to the view that defining educational outcomes enables improvements in …

Graduate medical education is a brutal enterprise in Britain. Junior doctors seem more like
apprentices to a craft than students of a profession: their hours are long, the duration of their …

MEDICAL EDUCATION—EDITORIAL tation through education research to make sure
outcomes are achieved. We need to lobby as a group to make sure our clinical sites …