BMJ 1994;309:477 (13 August)

Letters

Training in medical emergencies

EDITOR, - R J Burden and J Handel voice fears felt commonly by junior medical staff, particularly by newly qualified doctors undertaking their first post as a preregistration house officer.1 I agree that formal training in the management of common medical emergencies would improve the quality of medical training and should be encouraged. But "all new trainees" starting jobs in which "emergencies regularly feature" surely include all preregistration house officers.

The final year of undergraduate medical training is the time to equip trainee doctors formally with the skills and knowledge to deal competently with all common emergencies. As a newly qualified doctor about to enter my preregistration year, I know that this aim is not achieved in many cases. This is especially so with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a skill in which training is still inadequate2 despite the skills of junior medical staff having repeatedly been shown to be poor.3,4

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