Abstract

This article describes an innovative educational development and partnership between a Higher Education Institution (HEI) and Foundation Programme Directors / Clinical Tutors from NHS Trusts. One of the first aims of this partnership was to develop a generic skills curriculum to deliver the Foundation Programme through a series of jointly delivered study days. After two years of successful delivery of the generic skills study days the initiative was taken to the second stage of developing a postgraduate certificate. This paper sets out the pedagogical background to the postgraduate certificate and explores some of the emerging issues to inform ongoing medical educational methodology, associated learning from other disciplines and essential critique, to inform improvement.