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Modernising Medical Careers

Dr Rant (see link) is not entirely happy about "Modernising Medical Careers". He has linked to a large number of web items about MMC.

I personally don't like the word "modernising". What it tends to mean is changing something for change's sake. To that extent I don't mind being described as a "progressive", but I don't like being described as a "moderniser".

Change can help, but in itself it causes problems and, therefore, should only happen when there are very clear reasons for the change.

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