Current Paediatrics
Volume 11, Issue 4 , Pages 296-299, August 2001

Higher specialist training in paediatrics

  • M.J. Brueton (Reader in Child Health and Chairman of the Higher Specialist Training Committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health)

      Affiliations

Academic Department of Child Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH, UK

Abstract 

This review provides an overview of the organization of higher specialist training for specialist registrars (SpRs) in paediatric medicine. The context of the relationships of SpR training in the UK to the postgraduate deaneries, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and the Specialist Training Authority of the Medical Royal Colleges, are discussed together with the criteria for entry into the grade, and the allocation of training numbers. The content of the training programmes is described, leading on to a review of current approaches to the accreditation of centres for training, and the appraisal and assessment of trainees.

Keywords: higher specialist training, specialist registrars, training programmers, appraisal, assessment

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  • f1 E-mail: m.brueton@ic.ac.uk

PII: S0957-5839(01)90189-7

doi:10.1054/cupe.2001.0189

Current Paediatrics
Volume 11, Issue 4 , Pages 296-299, August 2001

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