TY - JOUR T1 - Postgraduate training in genitourinary medicine, HIV in-patient care and the future role of the speciality JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 184 LP - 184 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051102 VL - 89 IS - 3 AU - Rak Nandwani Y1 - 2013/05/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/89/3/184.abstract N2 - How will doctors provide care for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK in future? Will they be hospital-based general physicians with a special interest in STIs participating in medical receiving or will they be in community settings overseeing multidisciplinary delivery of integrated sexual health? And what of HIV in-patient care? Will Genitourinary medicine (GUM) specialists continue to maintain responsibility for unwell patients? Or will GUM have disappeared having been absorbed into European Dermato-Venereology or dismantled by non-National Health Service care providers? So far, GUM has an excellent record of keeping abreast with service redesign and external policy drivers. Postgraduate training is a key component of the specialty’s ability to do so. A major update of the GUM specialty training curriculum was published in 2010.1 This incorporated significant expansion of competencies in HIV medicine, reproductive health, public health and management/leadership.2 The GUM curriculum mirrors the current role of the specialty by ensuring that doctors gain all competencies required by existing health services. The … ER -