Improving Doctors' Working Lives

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

Flexible Training

This page is under construction. Please send me any information that you think might be useful!

NHS Employers guidance on the new flexible training contract
NES Guidelines for Less Than Full Time Training in Medicine in NHS Scotland
Pay for flexible trainees (West Midlands Deanery)

Royal Colleges: flexible training pages
Royal College of Physicians flexible training page
Royal College of Surgeons of England flexible training page
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health flexible training page
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists flexible training page
Royal College of Pathologists flexible training application forms

News and press releases
BMA briefing paper on flexible training in England (July 2004)
An insider's guide to flexible training (BMJ Careers Focus, 2003)
Flexible training for doctors who are ill (BMJ Careers Focus, 2001)

Flexible Trainees - Jayn Ammantoola's One Page Guides

Please note these are based on the old flexible contract - not the new one.

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Choices for doctors wishing to train flexibly
Managers: What to do when a Flexible Trainee arrives
Flexible training presentation
With thanks to NAMPS and to Jayn Ammantoola.

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