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Specialty curricula must specify the training pathways that doctors follow to enter the GMC specialist register.
A run through training pathway guarantees that doctors, after a single competitive selection process and satisfactory progress, will receive training covering the entire specialty curriculum.
Uncoupled training pathways require a second stage of competitive recruitment following the first two or three years of 'core' training in order to progress to higher specialty training.
Any organisation may make a proposal for the introduction of a new run through or uncoupled training pathway, however it must be piloted for an agreed period first in order to assess its impact.
Approved training pathway pilots
We have approved the following training pathway pilots: (click for regions)
Child and adolescent psychiatry run through effective from August 2018 for four years in the following regions:
East Midlands
East of England
Kent, Surrey and Sussex
London
North East
North West
Peninsula
Severn
Thames Valley
Wessex
West Midlands
Yorkshire and the Humber
General surgery run through effective from August 2018 for three years in the following regions:
East Midlands
East of England
Kent, Surrey and Sussex
London
Northern
North West
Peninsula
Scotland
Thames Valley
Wales
Wessex
West Midlands
Yorkshire and the Humber
Otolaryngology run through effective from August 2018 for three years in the following regions:
London
North West
Kent, Surrey and Sussex
West Midlands
Yorkshire and Humber
Paediatric surgery run through effective from August 2021 for three years in the following regions:
North West Deanery
West Midlands
Scotland
Trauma and orthopaedic surgery run through effective from August 2020 for three years.
East Midlands
London
Northern
North West
West Midlands
Urology run through effective from August 2019 for three years in the following regions:
East Midlands
East of England
London
Northern
North West
Scotland
Thames Valley
West Midlands
Yorkshire and the Humber
Vascular surgery run through effective from August 2019 for three years in the following regions: