Structure of Specialty Training
Specialty Training Guide: The Structure of Specialty Training
Doctors following specialty training programmes - referred to as trainees - can follow various routes to achieve consultant or GP status. After graduating from medical school, trainees then complete two years on the Foundation Programme which gives them exposure and insight into a variety of specialties. The South Thames Foundation School is part of the KSS Deanery and works in collaboration with and on behalf of the London Deanery to support approximately 950 trainees across Kent, Surrey and Sussex, including London hospitals south of the Thames. Trainees then choose to specialise, which they enter via a competitive recruitment process. This may be as a trainee GP or as a trainee hospital doctor. Trainee GPs are managed via the GP Department within the KSS Deanery. Specialty trainees are managed via the Medical Workforce Department within KSS Deanery.
Trainee hospital-based doctors generally fall into seven core specialties; Anaesthesia, ACCS, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Surgery and Medicine.
The duration of training and configuration of training length varies between specialties. The training is split into core training for the first two years (except for paediatrics and psychiatry which have three years of core training) and higher training for the remaining years of the particular specialty training programme.
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