One blustery autumn afternoon sometime in the past decade, I made my way to Milton Keynes Hospital to see someone who was on a 'mandatory' list of people to meet. I had been shortlisted for the training rotation in diabetes and endocrinology in the Oxford deanery. I was not particularly optimistic about my chances of being appointed, but I had received good advice from my then consultants that I should meet the training program director (TPD) to discuss the rotation, show keenness and have a 'chat'. It being my first time in Milton Keynes, I could not help but be impressed with the tree-lined boulevards and the relative paucity of vehicular traffic. I was later informed by people in the know (in that pre-Wikipedia era) that this was thanks to the grid system and clever design of the roads. Well, first mystery solved. But what was the role of the 'training programme director' (TPD) whom I was about to meet? Perhaps another quasi-edu-cationalist who worked from a smart office in the deanery?
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