Broad Based Training

Approved Curriculum and Associated Assessment System 2012

The Royal Colleges of General Practitioners, Paediatrics and Child Health and Psychiatrists, and JRCPTB under the auspices of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) have written the curriculum competences and assessments system blueprint for the Broad Based Training (BBT) programme.  

Doctors wishing to undertake Broad Based Training must first have successfully completed their foundation training before going onto the BBT programme. The BBT is a core curriculum consisting of a 2 year structured programme providing 6 month placements in four specialties: General Practice, Psychiatry, Paediatrics and Medicine. Each placement contributes its own specialty learning outcomes to the programme as well as contributing to the core competencies that are integral to the programme as a whole.  

All trainees, subject to satisfactory progress, will develop a broad experience base and therefore the potential to enter any of the four specialties to pursue their higher specialty training. 

The Broad Based Training programme document can be accessed by clicking the link below. The 2012 approved documentation incorporates the BBT curriculum and blueprinted assessment system.

BBT Curriculum and Associated Assessment System

Broad Based Training programme (pdf)