Abstract
A new urology curriculum has been approved by the General Medical Council and will be rolled out from August 2021. Major changes include phasing of training with a hard checkpoint at ST5 that facilitates focussed development on core skills during phase 2 (ST3–5) and the development of a special interest during phase 3 (ST6–7). While the syllabus remains unchanged, supervision levels will replace many of the workplace-based assessments currently used in wider clinical practice, learning agreements will transition from placement to placement, and indicative numbers have been replaced with index procedures, in a move from box-ticking to a professional assessment of competency and totality of practice. While change can be daunting, the 2021 urology curriculum can be viewed positively as a move away from the arbitrary collection of records of workplace-based assessments and exposure to indicative numbers, and towards the holistic professional judgements of competency that are more in keeping with lifelong consultant practice.
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