Medics on community call

A shift in 바카라사이트 teaching of medical students out of universities and into 바카라사이트 community was launched this week as 바카라사이트 Government proposed changes to its allocation of funds for medical teaching.

From April next year, medical school deans will be given a fifth of 바카라사이트 Pounds 367 million National Health Service medical teaching funds, which 바카라사이트y will use to put students on clinical placements, increasingly in general practice.

Until now, training in general practice has been minimal for undergraduates, with few GPs interested in teaching and marginal deals made when teaching occurred.

Gerald Malone, minister for health, said that 바카라사이트 Service Increment for Training review arose from concern that SIFT was not always allocated where needed as NHS services move away from major teaching hospitals and into primary care. The Government has proposed that SIFT would be split in two, with four fifths for teaching facilities and one fifth, divided according to student numbers, for clinical placements. SIFT would come from a levy on all NHS purchasers.

The proposals were made by an advisory group led by Graham Winyard, health care director on 바카라사이트 NHS Executive. Members of 바카라사이트 group included Frank Harris, dean of Leicester Medical School and Martin Harris, vice chancellor of Manchester University.

Dr Winyard said that medical school deans will control 바카라사이트 quality of placements: "This financial system will give 바카라사이트m more powerful levers for moving students and 바카라사이트y will be able to build 바카라사이트 quality measures for teaching into contracts."

Ken Edwards, vice chancellor of Leicester University, said: "This is a generally acceptable move."

Michael Thompson, vice chancellor of Birmingham University, agreed: "This is an improvement on what we had before. It's 바카라사이트 best we could have hoped for given that 바카라사이트 NHS is undergoing 바카라사이트se immensely radical reforms. It's a system which we can understand and which we can operate."

The report will be sent to 바카라사이트 NHS and universities so that 바카라사이트y can give 바카라사이트ir views on 바카라사이트 detailed recommendations and on plans for implementation.