Appointment of liaison team members/officers
(A service trainer and an academic trainer)
- Liaison members will be nominated by Faculty Advisers and approved by the Education and Faculty Advisers' Committee on the recommendation of the Director of Training (Visits).
- Liaison members will not normally come from the same region as the programme being visited.
- Liaison members will serve for a period of six years to enable them to see a full cycle of PMETB visits to their associated programme during their term of office. Trainee liaison members will serve a shorter period as determined by their CCT.
- Liaison team members will make contact with the programme once a year; this will not be the same programme each time.
- Lead liaison members must be current trainers of at least three years standing, familiar with requirements of RITA and Calman and up-to-date with CPD requirements. Trainee liaison members must be in at least the third year of training.
- Liaison members must have received training before making a liaison contact with deanery.
- The lead liaison team member is the primary point of contact with the host Faculty Adviser and is responsible for ensuring co-ordination of the liaison team.
- Liaison members should undertake to work within the timetable guidance for report submission.
- The lead liaison member should be available to the Faculty Adviser between liaison contact meetings for general consultation and discussion of progress.