FAQs - Training

Last updated: 1 March 2010

I am a doctor in training. Will I be expected to participate in revalidation? If so, can I use the documentation in my Specialty Training Record as evidence for revalidation?

Yes. Doctors in training will be required to participate in revalidation.

You will be able to use the record of your progress through training for the purposes of your revalidation.  There may need to be some enhancement of the Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP) process so that it incorporates patient and colleague feedback.

Our intention is that the ARCP process, in conjunction with feedback and sign-off of trainee placements from employers, should provide the vehicle through which trainees would be able to revalidate. In effect, revalidation would be the by-product of your successful progression through training.

Your first revalidation will be either at the point you are awarded a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or five years from the date you are granted full registration, whichever is the sooner.