Minimum UK training time for each specialty
If you were previously granted with a CESR/CEGPR, because your training consisted of both non-approved and approved training posts, then you trained on a combined programme, and may be eligible for retrospective grant of a CCT if you meet the below criteria:
- you have trained in approved UK training posts for the minimum number of years required for your specialty; or,
- You trained in a specialty with no minimum training time.
The table below lists the minimum number of years you must have trained on a UK combined programme in order to be eligible for the retrospective grant of a CCT in each specialty.
Specialties with a minimum training time
If you meet the minimum training time, then you may be eligible for the retrospective grant of a CCT.
If you did not train in UK approved training posts for the minimum number of years stated below, you are not eligible.
This minimum training time stated is on the basis of full-time training. Those training less than full-time must meet the full-time equivalent training time.
These are specialties where the minimum training time is listed as ‘No minimum’. If you completed a combined programme in one of these specialties, you will be eligible for the retrospective grant of a CCT.
| Specialty | Minimum training time in UK |
|---|---|
| Acute internal medicine |
No minimum |
| Allergy |
No minimum |
| Anaesthetics |
3 years |
| Audio vestibular medicine |
No minimum |
| Aviation and space medicine |
4 years |
| Cardiology |
4 years |
| Cardio-thoracic surgery (also known as thoracic surgery) |
5 years |
| Chemical pathology |
4 years |
| Child and adolescent psychiatry | 4 years |
| Clinical genetics |
4 years |
| Clinical neurophysiology |
4 years |
| Clinical oncology |
4 years |
| Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics |
4 years |
| Clinical radiology |
4 years |
| Community sexual health and reproduction |
No minimum |
| Dermatology |
4 years |
| Diagnostic neuropathology |
No minimum |
| Emergency medicine (also known as accident and emergency medicine) |
5 years |
| Endocrinology and diabetes mellitus |
3 years |
| Forensic histopathology |
No minimum |
| Forensic psychiatry |
No minimum |
| Gastro-enterology |
4 years |
| General (internal) medicine |
5 years |
| General Practice |
3 years |
| General psychiatry |
4 years |
| General surgery |
5 years |
| Genito-urinary medicine |
4 years |
| Geriatric medicine |
4 years |
| Haematology |
3 years |
| Histopathology |
4 years |
| Immunology |
4 years |
| Infectious diseases |
4 years |
| Intensive care medicine |
No minimum |
| Medical microbiology (listed in Annex V as Medical microbiology and virology) |
4 years |
| Medical oncology |
5 years |
| Medical ophthalmology |
No minimum |
| Medical psychotherapy |
No minimum |
| Medical virology (listed in Annex V as Medical microbiology and virology) |
4 years |
| Neurology |
4 years |
| Neurosurgery |
5 years |
| Nuclear medicine |
4 years |
| Obstetrics and gynaecology |
4 years |
| Occupational medicine |
4 years |
| Old age psychiatry |
No minimum |
| Ophthalmology |
3 years |
| Oral and maxillo-facial surgery |
4 years |
| Otolaryngology |
3 years |
| Paediatric and perinatal pathology |
No minimum |
| Paediatric cardiology |
No minimum |
| Paediatric surgery |
5 years |
| Paediatrics |
4 years |
| Palliative medicine |
No minimum |
| Pharmaceutical medicine |
No minimum |
| Plastic surgery |
5 years |
| Psychiatry of learning disability |
No minimum |
| Public health medicine |
4 years |
| Rehabilitation medicine |
No minimum |
| Renal medicine |
4 years |
| Respiratory medicine |
4 years |
| Rheumatology |
4 years |
| Sport and exercise medicine |
No minimum |
| Trauma and orthopaedic surgery |
5 years |
| Tropical medicine |
4 years |
| Urology |
5 years |
| Vascular surgery |
5 years |
