Approved specialty and subspecialty training curricula by Royal College

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

Royal College of Anaesthetists

• Anaesthetics
  • Subspecialty: Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine
• Intensive care medicine

College of Emergency Medicine 

• Emergency medicine
  • Subspecialty: Paediatric Emergency Medicine
  • Subspecialty: Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine

Royal College of General Practitioners

• General Practice

Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board

• Acute Internal Medicine
  • Subspecialty: Stroke Medicine 
• Allergy
• Audio vestibular medicine
• Cardiology
  • Subspecialty: Stroke Medicine
• Clinical genetics
• Clinical neurophysiology
• Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
  • Subspecialty: Stroke Medicine
• Dermatology
• Endocrinology and diabetes mellitus
• Gastroenterology  (including subspecialty Hepatology)
• General (internal) medicine 
  • Subspecialty: Metabolic Medicine
  • Subspecialty: Stroke Medicine
• Genito-urinary medicine
• Geriatric medicine
  • Subspecialty: Stroke Medicine
• Haematology
• Immunology 
• Infectious diseases 
• Medical oncology 
• Medical ophthalmology 
• Neurology 
  • Subspecialty: Stroke Medicine
• Nuclear medicine 
• Paediatric cardiology 
• Palliative medicine 
• Pharmaceutical medicine 
• Rehabilitation medicine
  • Subspecialty: Stroke Medicine
• Renal medicine
• Respiratory medicine
• Rheumatology
• Sport and Exercise Medicine
• Tropical medicine

Joint Committee on Surgical Training

• Cardio-thoracic surgery
  • Subspecialty: Congenital Cardiac Surgery
• General surgery 
• Neurosurgery 
• Oral and maxillo-facial surgery 
• Otolaryngology
• Paediatric surgery 
• Plastic surgery 
• Trauma and orthopaedic surgery 
• Urology
• Vascular surgery 

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Specialty Curriculum unless stated

• Obstetrics and gynaecology
  • Subspecialty: Gynaecological Oncology (pdf)
  • Subspecialty: Maternal and Fetal Medicine (pdf) 
  • Subspecialty: Reproductive Medicine (pdf) 
  • Subspecialty: Sexual and Reproductive Health (pdf) 
  • Subspecialty: Urogynaecology (pdf)

Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare

• Community Sexual & Reproductive Health

Faculty of Occupational Medicine  

• Occupational medicine

Royal College of Ophthalmologists

• Ophthalmology

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

• Paediatrics

Subspecialties

• Community Child Health (pdf)
• Child Mental Health (pdf)
• Neonatal Medicine (pdf)
• Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (pdf)
• Paediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology (pdf)
• Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (pdf)
• Paediatric Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Allergy (pdf)
• Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine (pdf)
• Paediatric Palliative Medicine (pdf)
• Paediatric Nephrology (pdf)
• Paediatric Neurodisability (pdf)
• Paediatric Neurology (pdf)
• Paediatric Oncology (pdf)
• Paediatric Respiratory Medicine (pdf)
• Paediatric Rheumatology (pdf)
• Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Medicine (pdf)       
• Paediatric Emergency Medicine (pdf) 

 

Royal College of Pathologists

• Chemical pathology
  • Subspecialty: Metabolic Medicine (pdf)
• Diagnostic neuropathology (pdf)
• Forensic histopathology (pdf) 
• Histopathology
  • Subspecialty: Cytopathology 
  • Subspecialty: Forensic Pathology In process to be decomissioned
  • Subspecialty: Neuropathology In process to be decomissioned
  • Subspecialty: Paediatric Pathology In process to be decomissioned
• Medical microbiology
• Medical Virology
• Medical microbiology and virology
• Paediatric and perinatal pathology (pdf) 

Royal College of Psychiatrists

• General psychiatry
  • Subspecialty: Liaison Psychiatry
  • Subspecialty: Rehabilitation Psychiatry
  • Subspecialty: Substance Misuse Psychiatry  
• Child and adolescent psychiatry 
• Forensic psychiatry 
• Old age psychiatry 
• Psychiatry of learning disability 
• Medical psychotherapy

Faculty of Public Health

• Public health medicine

Royal College of Radiologists

• Clinical oncology
• Clinical radiology
  • Subspecialty: Interventional Radiology (pdf)