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Editor - I read Professor David Black's article describing the new UK internal medicine curriculum with interest.1 It would seem at long last there is a plan to simplify the greatly criticised 'tick-box approach' to medical training. This is hardly a new idea and this progress has been greatly hampered and delayed by the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB) themselves.
I, and others, were on the Royal College of Physicians Trainees Committee almost a decade ago telling Professor Black's predecessor, Bill Burr, that we should be doing far fewer assessments and we should do them better. We also said at the time that the process of...