Doctors have too much mandatory training: who will take the lead on reducing its curriculum?

It is easier to prescribe than to deprescribe.1 Even in the last days of life drugs continue to be prescribed without benefit.2 Stopping medication prescribed by another creates uncertainty and it is often easier just to continue.As with prescribing so with mandatory training.3 The growth of mandatory training for doctors has not been managed with any overarching perspective. The lack of oversight impacts doctors’ availability to deliver clinical care. Training in deprivation of liberty; general data protection regulations; equality, diversity, and inclusion; lifting and handling; advanced cardiac life support; internet safety; fire safety; and haemovigilance are just some examples of training doctors are required to complete in addition to their annual appraisal. Each course is mandated from the best motives and often reactive to a confirmed need but blinkered to the accumulative effect. Does this training work? Is there evidence that these programmes deliver improved outcomes for patients?Trying to mitigate…
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