Key result
Registrar reports temporary cardiac pacing competence requires ~2.5 years of general medical on-call training.
May indicate gaps in early temporary pacing training; leaves open the need for standardized competence benchmarks in cardiology curricula.
Sir, I read the recent article by Petch1 with much interest. As a specialist registrar training in general medicine, having completed two and a half years of general medical on-call, I can safely say that I now feel competent in the procedure of temporary pacing. I fully recognise that as a senior house officer (SHO) or first-year registrar my previous experience in this technique was inadequate, despite having worked in a large District General Hospital …
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J K Loehry (2000) conducted a letter in Temporary cardiac pacing. Temporary cardiac pacing was evaluated. A specialist registrar reports feeling competent in temporary cardiac pacing after two and a half years of general medical on-call training, noting inadequate experience during earlier training years.
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