Procedural skills training for medical registrars – is it needed?

Abstract

The Royal College of Physicians’ Acute Care Toolkit 8 1 recommends that procedural training should be available for medical registrars at all hospitals, and simulation training is widely regarded as a key way of teaching such skills.2 Simulation training is now mandated for foundation and core medicine training / internal medicine training stage 1 trainees nationally,3 and is well delivered locally within our deanery. There is no such facility for general internal medicine (GIM) registrars, so we aimed to determine the interest, need, and pilot the delivery of such training in the procedures outlined by the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (2017). …