Addressing the 'python' crisis affecting medical specialist training programmes: organisational frameworks and interdisciplinary insights.

ABSTRACT: Medical education programmes constantly need to balance numerous and often competing demands of their stakeholders (i.e. trainees, educators, hospital administration, specialist colleges and accrediting bodies). Many of these issues are difficult to resolve; such challenges actually represent a special type of crisis - known as a 'python' crisis in scholarly organisational management literature. Basic physician training programmes are particularly susceptible to 'python'-like crises. These specialist vocational training programmes rely on the goodwill of experienced clinicians, who provide teaching and supervision to trainees on a voluntary basis and whose engagement in teaching activities is often limited because of other work and personal commitments. On top of this, expectations from im

SUBMITTER: Wang LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12515463 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature