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Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) 'controlled' second-degree places in the UK - there are sufficient numbers (with high application ratios) to meet current and future OMFS recruitment needs in the UK.
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg
November 2024
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
In 2008 the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) Review of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) recommended that OMFS specialty training should start with second-degree studies. This recommendation has not yet happened. Currently, no OMFS controlled places at medical/dental schools are directly linked to OMFS Specialty Training (ST) posts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGender changes in oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) in the UK 1996 to 2030. Current trends suggest gender parity of those joining the OMFS specialist list may be achieved by 2048.
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg
November 2024
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
In their 2022 paper Newman et al compared gender diversity between UK surgical specialties. It omitted the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS), which is one of the ten General Medical Council recognised surgical specialties. When challenged, the authors did not provide data for OMFS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReview of the 'second degree' universities of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) specialists and trainees in the UK. Locations of their graduate entry medicine and graduate entry dentistry degrees, graduating between 1979-2019.
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg
November 2024
Consultant OMFS - Aintree University Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
By spending 3-5 years in a single location studying for their second degree, OMFS trainees often put down domestic roots which they are reluctant to pull up to complete their training elsewhere. The universities at which OMFS specialists/trainees obtained their second degrees were assembled using the General Medical Council's OMFS specialist list, the General Dental Council's Dental Register and a database of OMFS trainees and consultants. The second degrees of 818 past and current OMFS specialists/trainees were analysed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnited Kingdom oral and maxillofacial surgeons support changes to current specialty recruitment process, which could include 'Walport' style local selection and national benchmarking.
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg
June 2024
Consultant OMFS - Aintree University Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
Recruitment to oral and maxillofacial Surgical (OMFS) specialty training was centralised in 2010. The 'flexibility' for OMFS to respond to specialty specific recruitment issues is reducing and many Specialty Trainees' (ST) posts are left unfilled. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) appointment process designed to address the problem of recruiting and appointing academic surgeons with local selection with national benchmarking has worked.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUK OMFS consultants and trainees strongly support the recommendations of the 2008 Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) Review of Training in OMFS. The time for delivering them is now.
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg
June 2024
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Electronic address:
When the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board's (PMETB) Review of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) Training was published in 2008 it contained five recommendations about OMFS training. As yet, none of these recommendations has been delivered. An online survey was designed to assess awareness of the PMETB review and the current views of OMFS trainees and consultants about its recommendations.
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