Paediatrics curriculum

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Core training options

Core Paediatrics

Indicative length of training (including core)

Seven years

Exams

Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH) examinations:

• Foundation of Practice (FOP)
• Theory and Science (TAS)
• Applied Knowledge in Practice (AKP)
• MRCPCH Clinical examination

Approved sub-specialties

• Child mental health
• Community child health
• Neonatal medicine
• 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