0900-0925  REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

0925-0930  Welcome - Dr Liz Spencer, Chair NACT UK

Session One: Doctors in difficulty - the view from the service

Chair: Dr Harry Burns, CMO Scotland
0930-1000 Definitions Prof Alastair Scotland, Medical Director of NCAS

1000-1020 Definitions Miss Corinne Trim, Kings College Hospital, London

1020-1045 Discussion

1045-1115 COFFEE
Session Two: Using Portfolios for objective evidence of learning:

Chair: Prof Lis Paice, Chair COPMeD

1115-1135 Bridging the gap from the universities to the workplace, Dr Andrew Frankel, Imperial College

1135-1155 Specialist Portfolios, Dr Simon Fraser, RCOG

1155-1215 Changing Tack - transferable competencies, Dr Andrew Long, Assoc Dean (Careers), London Deanery

1215-1245 Discussion

1245-1345  LUNCH

1345-1415  The ES Mayer Memorial Lecture

Chair: Dr Liz Spencer, Chair NACT UK

Dr Vijay Hajela, NACT/Wyeth Travelling Fellow 2007

Session Three: Identifying, Managing & Supporting trainees

Chair:  Professor Mary Armitage, Clinical Advisor to MMC

1415-1435 Identifying- What are we looking for? Dr Jenny King, Edgecumbe

1435-1455 How can Deaneries help? Prof Clair du Boulay, Dean of Wessex  Institute

1455-1515 Discussion

1515-1545 TEA

Session Four: Preparing for the future

Chair: Dr Peter Harrison, Hon Assist Secretary, NACT UK

1545-1630 "The Way Forward" Prof Sir John Tooke, MMC Review Group Chairman

1630-1700 Discussion