© 2000 the Emergency Medicine Journal
Special report
Continuing professional development for doctors in accident and emergency
Director of CPD, Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PN
Correspondence to:
Dr Guly, Consultant, Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Derriford Hospital, Derriford Road, Plymouth PL6 8DH
Accepted September 28, 1999
Most learning in accident and emergency (A&E) occurs during normal work. It is a rare week that I do not see a condition I have never seen before and every follow up, whether it be a patient returning to the clinic or visiting a patient in the intensive care unit or postmortem room, is a learning opportunity. Referrals to colleagues and chance discussions about patients over lunch are often educational, as are regular meetings with radiologists and intensivists. For those who do them, even medicolegal reports may help to clarify ideas on prognosis (and psychology). However, doctors and other professional people should not just learn by osmosis, but have a responsibility to devote time specifically to education and development. The responsibility for a junior doctor's postgraduate medical education is shared with their educational supervisor and programme director but for doctors in career posts, including consultants, associate specialists, staff grade doctors
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