Bibliographic record
Abstract
Intercollegiate Board for Sport and Exercise MedicineEstablishing a new medical discipline in the United Kingdom must meet a series of criteria laid down by the European Medical Specialist Qualification Order, the General Medical Council, and the Specialist Training Authority (STA).Enthusiastic practitioners of sport and exercise medicine must meet the demands of these bodies before the National Health Service medical education unit will recommend that the secretary of state for health should amend schedule 2 of the Specialist Medical Order.There is a reluctance in the STA to increase the number of specialties.Any proposal to support the recognition of sport and exercise medicine will need to be soundly based and closely argued, demonstrating that an identified need for the specialty can be met by appropriately trained doctors.Postgraduate medical training in the United Kingdom is based on doctors spending one year as a preregistration house oYcer followed by a minimum of two years general professional/basic specialty training giving a breadth of experience before the doctor chooses a higher specialty training programme.These supervised programmes vary from a minimum of one year in general practice to four to six years in hospital based or community medicine specialties.Thereafter, the doctor applies to the STA for recognition that his/her training has been completed.This entitles the doctor to have his/her name added to the specialist medical register with an agreed suffix acknowledging the specialty.This is the background against which the Intercollegiate Academic Board for Sport and Exercise Medicine was established with the support of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in April 1998.The board's first priority has been to develop a diploma examination, building on the experience of the Scottish Royal Colleges, which will set the minimum standards of knowledge and "touch line skills" for doctors practising sport and exercise medicine.This examination is pitched at a similar standard to the membership examinations in medicine and surgery, and acknowledges the completion of basic specialty training.In due course, the examination will be an entry requirement for higher specialty training in sport and exercise medicine.The first part of the examination consists of a multiple choice question paper (two hours duration), of which about one third of the questions cover the basic sciences, and three short essay questions (one hour).Candidates must pass part I before they enter part II, which consists of a 30 minute oral followed by two 30 minute objective structured clinical examinations designed to assess core and clinical skills.The board has issued a syllabus and reading list to help the candidates, who come from a wide range of backgrounds, to prepare for the examination.Details of suitable educational courses run by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine and several universities can be obtained from the National Sports Medicine Institute.The board has clarified the steps that need to be put in place to establish higher specialty training programmes in sport and exercise medicine.Individual specialty advisory committees supervise and accredit training programmes, trainers, and trainees before recommending a successful trainee to the STA.A common feature of all specialties is that trainees can apply for a flexible year to undertake additional relevant training or research.Rehabilitation medicine currently allows trainees to spend a year in sport and exercise medicine.The Intercollegiate Board of Sport and Exercise
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.123 | 0.037 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".