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A History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948–2004Academic A&E, the Faculty and Changes of Name

A History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948–2004: Academic A&E, the Faculty and Changes of... [For a long time A&E was regarded as a Cinderella specialty and until the early 1970s it was not recognised as a specialty at all. Following the appointment of the early consultants it was commonly regarded as a surgical subspecialty or, even worse in the eyes of its consultants, an orthopaedic subspecialty. And yet it was recognised that it dealt with medical emergencies. The first way to define a specialty is to develop a training programme and this was done in the late 1970s as described in Chapter 4. A specialty-specific exam is also useful and was achieved in 1982 but it took a long time to become fully accepted as the equivalent of the other higher diplomas.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948–2004Academic A&E, the Faculty and Changes of Name

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
ISBN
978-1-349-52420-4
Pages
100 –110
DOI
10.1057/9780230000742_7
Publisher site
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Abstract

[For a long time A&E was regarded as a Cinderella specialty and until the early 1970s it was not recognised as a specialty at all. Following the appointment of the early consultants it was commonly regarded as a surgical subspecialty or, even worse in the eyes of its consultants, an orthopaedic subspecialty. And yet it was recognised that it dealt with medical emergencies. The first way to define a specialty is to develop a training programme and this was done in the late 1970s as described in Chapter 4. A specialty-specific exam is also useful and was achieved in 1982 but it took a long time to become fully accepted as the equivalent of the other higher diplomas.]

Published: Sep 26, 2015

Keywords: Royal College; Surgical Specialty; Trauma Unit; Chief Medical Officer; Exit Exam

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