Her appointment follows the first phase of the review into postgraduate medical training that was published last year, which focused on four priorities: more flexible training; removing the divide between service and training; ending the damaging recruitment bottlenecks; and rebuilding teams where doctors feel valued.

Professor Dacre said: ‘In 2003, we created the medical education and training system we still use today. A system designed in an era of dial up internet and Blockbuster is not the one we need in the age of artificial intelligence and Netflix.

‘The world has moved on but medical education and training hasn't kept up. Everybody agrees radical change is needed, and I want the next generation to experience a new approach that ensures we have resident doctors who flourish, who are trained where patients need them and who are better treated by the system.

‘We want to support all resident doctors to feel valued and to aspire to excellence. To make the NHS fit for the future, we need to reshape how we train doctors who are key to the future NHS and we need to start now.

‘This next step is not further diagnosis, but a professionally led approach to turning the findings so far into meaningful improvement and reform.'

The four-nation implementation activity is sponsored by Professor Sir Chris Whitty, chief medical officer at the DHSC, and Professor Meghana Pandit, national medical director at NHS England.