UK OMF surgeons support changes to current specialty recruitment process which could include ‘Walport’ style local selection and national benchmarking
Recruitment to OMFS specialty training was centralised in 2010. The ‘flexibility’ for OMFS to respond to specialty specific recruitment issues is reducing and many ST posts are left unfilled. The NIHR appointment process designed to address the problem of recruiting and appointing academic surgeons with local selection with national benchmarking has worked.
Source: The British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Divya Sharma, James Douglas, Anne Begley, Iain Hutchison, Patrick Magennis Source Type: research