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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 three years in the following regions:
London
Yorkshire and the Humber
North East
North West
Thames Valley
East of England
Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Wessex
East Midlands
Severn
Peninsula
West Midlands.
Otolaryngology run through effective from August 2018 for three years in the following regions:
London
North West
Kent, Surrey and Sussex
West Midlands.
General surgery run through effective from August 2018 for three years in the following regions:
East Midlands
East of England
Kent, Surrey and Sussex
South London
North West
South West
Yorkshire and the Humber
Scotland
Wales
Wessex.
Trauma and orthopaedic surgery run through effective from August 2020 for three years.
Participating regions to be confirmed.
Urology run through effective from August 2019 for three years in the following regions:
East Midlands
East of England
London
North West
Yorkshire and the Humber
Scotland.
Vascular surgery run through effective from August 2019 for three years in the following regions: