Medical Education in the United Kingdom: A view from an educationalist working in medicine

Abstract

I was approached to write this paper by a fellow medical educator in Japan, as a way of giving insights into how medical education is constructed in the UK. It is essentially a descriptive piece in which I have tried to cover the basic frameworks and to describe some of medical education's key interested parties. I also include a section that must be understood as a personal construction of what I believe medical education and its contexts to be, and finish with a description of faculty development work designed specifically to meet the needs of clinically-based medical teachers.