Quality Management in the Oxford Deanery

Welcome to the Deanery Quality Management Committee' webpages.

The Deanery Quality Management Committee [DQMC] is responsible for the quality management [QM]of postgraduate medical and dental education within the Oxford Deanery.

In response to the GMC expectation for deaneries to quality manage medical training, the Oxford Deanery has developed a quality management process based on the GMC model with data collection framed around the GMC domains and standards as set out in The Trainee Doctor. The process builds on the Better Regular Taskforce's key principles and adheres to the principles of risk-based regulation, externality, the triangulation of data and openness and transparency.

Mission

Building on the clinical excellence, innovation and research in the Oxford region, the Deanery ensures delivery of the highest quality postgraduate training for doctors and dentists, meeting the evolving needs of the health service.

The remit of the Deanery Quality Management Committee is to oversee all Deanery QM processes ensuring that they meet GMC standards and mandatory requirements. The aim is to ensure a high quality delivery of education and training by gathering information on the quality of training from a range of source across the Deanery, which can be measured against GMC standards and used to bring about continual improvements in education and training as well as new developments.

Information gathering is an ongoing process, occurring through the year, and carried out by a number of different people. The Quality Management process triangulates data from a range of sources including visits [Specialty, and Postgraduate Dean], annual trust reports, the GMC National Training Surveys [Trainer & Trainee], local school surveys, exit interviews, annual school reports, exam outcomes and reports received from clinical and lay external representatives.