GMC approved postgraduate curricula

We approve curricula and assessments for the Foundation Programme, 65 specialties and 30 sub-specialties. These are designed by royal colleges and faculties.

We make sure these curricula meet the standards we set in order to deliver high quality training.

Guidance for royal colleges on making changes to curricula
Foundation Programme curriculum


Core curricula

Acute care common stem (ACCS)
Broad based training (BBT)
Core anaesthetics
Core medical training (CMT)

Core psychiatry training (CPT)
Core surgical training (CST)
Internal medicine - stage one (IMT)

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Approved specialty curricula

Approved specialty curricula

A

Acute internal medicine
Allergy
Anaesthetics
Audio vestibular medicine
Aviation and space medicine

C

Cardio-thoracic surgery
Cardiology
Chemical pathology
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Clinical genetics
Clinical neurophysiology
Clinical oncology
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Clinical radiology
Community sexual and reproductive health

D

Dermatology
Diagnostic neuropathology

E

Emergency medicine
Endocrinology and diabetes mellitus

F

Forensic histopathology
Forensic psychiatry

G

Gastro-enterology
General (internal) medicine
General practice
General psychiatry
General surgery
Genito-urinary medicine
Geriatric medicine

H

Haematology
Histopathology

I

Immunology
Infectious diseases
Intensive care medicine

M

Medical microbiology
Medical oncology
Medical ophthalmology
Medical psychotherapy
Medical virology

N

Neurology
Neurosurgery
Nuclear medicine

O

Obstetrics and gynaecology
Occupational medicine
Old age psychiatry
Ophthalmology
Oral and maxillo-facial surgery
Otolaryngology

P

Paediatric and perinatal pathology 
Paediatric cardiology
Paediatric surgery
Paediatrics
Palliative medicine
Pharmaceutical medicine
Plastic surgery
Psychiatry of learning disability
Public health medicine

R

Rehabilitation medicine
Renal medicine
Respiratory medicine
Rheumatology

S

Sport and exercise medicine

T

Trauma and orthopaedic surgery 
Tropical medicine

U

Urology

V

Vascular surgery

Approved sub-specialty curricula

Approved sub-specialty curricula

A

Addiction psychiatry

C

Child mental health
Community child health
Congenital cardiac surgery
Cytopathology

G

Gynaecological oncology

H

Hepatology

I

Interventional radiology

L

Liaison psychiatry

M

Maternal and fetal medicine

N

Neonatal medicine

P

Paediatric allergy, immunology and infectious diseases
Paediatric clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Paediatric diabetes and endocrinology
Paediatric emergency medicine
Paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition
Paediatric inherited metabolic medicine
Paediatric intensive care medicine
Paediatric nephrology
Paediatric neurodisability
Paediatric neurology
Paediatric oncology
Paediatric palliative medicine
Paediatric respiratory medicine
Paediatric rheumatology
Pre-hospital emergency medicine

R

Rehabilitation psychiatry
Reproductive medicine

S

Stroke medicine

U

Urogynaecology