The objectives of Reference Group 3 were to review specialist medical training programs in light of changing training needs and changes in the health care delivery environment.
Their brief was to:
- explore the educational imperative for training in settings other than public teaching hospitals by seeking information from each college on the average proportion of training time required in each setting.
- identify the learning objectives related to each setting, for each specialty.
- specify the infrastructure and resource requirements required in each potential setting to support the learning objectives – anticipating collaborative resource arrangements between specialties and colleges.
- identify overlaps between the learning objectives, training settings and opportunities for standardisation and collaboration between colleges.