Approved curricula and assessment systems by specialty

Approved, definitive specialty and sub-specialty training curricula, and the associated assessment systems, can be found by clicking on the links below.

The word NEW denotes that the specialty/subspecialty curriculum and/or associated assessment system have been formally reviewed (in line with the Quality Framework Operational Guide) and the approved documentation has been uploaded.

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A

Anaesthetics
Acute Internal Medicine (NEW)
Allergy
Audiological Medicine 

C

Cardiology
Cardiothoracic Surgery

• Subspecialty: Congenital Cardiac Surgery (pdf)

Chemical Pathology

• Subspecialty: Metabolic Medicine (pdf)

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 
Clinical Genetics
Clinical Neurophysiology
Clinical Oncology (formerly known as Radiotherapy)
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Clinical Radiology 
Community Sexual & Reproductive Health

D

Dermatology 

E

Emergency Medicine (also known as Accident and Emergency Medicine)
Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus 

F

Forensic Psychiatry 

G

Gastroenterology  (including sub-specialty Hepatology)
General (Internal) Medicine
General Practice
General Psychiatry

• Sub-specialty: Liaison Psychiatry
• Sub-specialty: Rehabilitation Psychiatry
• Sub-specialty: Substance Misuse Psychiatry  

General Surgery
Genitourinary Medicine
Geriatric Medicine

H

Haematology
Histopathology

• Sub-specialty: Cytopathology
• Sub-specialty: Forensic Pathology
• Sub-specialty: Neuropathology
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric Pathology

I

Immunology 
Infectious Diseases 
Intensive Care Medicine 

M

Medical Microbiology (NEW)
Medical Microbiology and Virology
Medical Virology (NEW)
Medical Oncology
Medical Ophthalmology

Sub-specialty of more than one specialty

• Sub-specialty: Metabolic Medicine 

N

Neurology
Neurosurgery 
Nuclear Medicine 

O

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

• Sub-specialty: Gynaecological oncology (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Maternal and fetal medicine (pdf) 
• Sub-specialty: Reproductive medicine (pdf) 
• Sub-specialty: Sexual and reproductive healthcare (pdf) 
• Sub-specialty: Urogynaecology (pdf)

Occupational Medicine
Old Age Psychiatry 
Ophthalmology
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 
Otolaryngology

P

Paediatric Cardiology
Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Paediatric Surgery 
Paediatrics

• Sub-specialty: Community child health (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Children's mental health (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Neonatal medicine (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric diabetes and endocrinology (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric emergency medicine (pdf) 
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric immunology, infectious diseases and allergy (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric inherited metabolic medicine (pdf)       
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric intensive care medicine (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric nephrology (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric neurodisability (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric neurology (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric oncology (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric palliative medicine (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric respiratory medicine (pdf)
• Sub-specialty: Paediatric rheumatology (pdf)

Palliative Medicine
Pharmaceutical Medicine
Plastic Surgery
Psychiatry of Learning Disability 
Psychotherapy
Public Health Medicine 

R

Rehabilitation Medicine
Renal Medicine
Respiratory Medicine
Rheumatology 

S

Sport and Exercise Medicine

Sub-specialty of more than one specialty:

T

Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery 
Tropical Medicine 

U

Urology