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Recommendations
Recommendations on part-time career grade posts
Recommendations on attitudes to part-time working
>> The medical profession needs to promote more positive attitudes to part-time working through mentors, role models and case studies
>> Royal College, Deaneries, the BMA, and the GMC need to find effective ways to consult with those doctors working part-time on a wide range of issues
>> Royal Colleges should issue guidance on part-time career grade posts
>> Medical directors should support and promote innovative job design to promote part-time working for consultants and staff and associate specialists
Recommendations on part-time training posts
Recommendations on career development for part-time doctors
>> Employers and colleges should work together to ensure that rota design can routinely incorporate part-time workers
>> Medical directors should support and promote innovative job design
>> Deaneries should ensure that training programme directors take responsibility for leading integration of part-time trainees into training and programmes
>> Deaneries and employers should continue to build on the progress of mainstreaming part-time training
>> Employers, Deaneries, training programme directors and educational supervisors should ensure a prompt and sympathetic response to those trainees who express a desire to train part-time
>> Trainees should be made more aware of sources of information and support for part-time training at undergraduate and postgraduate level
>> Employers, medical directors and Deaneries should adopt a formal approach for the reacquisition of clinical skills after a career break or a period of extended leave
>> The MWF should seek to work with key stakeholders to promote successful examples of part-time working in the medical profession
>> Deaneries, Royal Colleges and the BMA should work with PMETB to use the national survey of trainees to explore any systematic differences in the quality of training experienced by those in full and part-time posts
