The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (Amendment) Order of Council 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 344

Health Care And Associated Professions

Doctors

The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (Amendment) Order of Council 2012

Made

7th February 2012

Laid before Parliament

16th February 2012

Coming into force

16th March 2012

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall the 7th day of February 2012

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Their Lordships make the following Order in exercise of powers conferred by section 34D(3) of the Medical Act 1983(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (Amendment) Order of Council 2012 and comes into force on 16th March 2012.

Amendment

2.  For the Schedule to the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010(2) (recognised specialties within the United Kingdom), substitute—

Article 11

“SCHEDULE Recognised Specialties within the United Kingdom

PART 1 Specialties requiring a minimum training period of five years

• Cardio-thoracic surgery (also known as thoracic surgery)

• Emergency medicine (also known as accident and emergency medicine)

• General (internal) medicine* (formerly known as general medicine)

• General surgery*

• Medical oncology

• Neurosurgery* (also known as neurological surgery)

• Paediatric surgery

• Plastic surgery*

• Trauma and orthopaedic surgery* (also known as orthopaedics, and formerly as orthopaedic surgery)

• Urology*

• Vascular surgery

PART 2 Specialties requiring a minimum training period of four years

• Cardiology (formerly known as cardio-vascular disease)

• Chemical pathology (also known as biological chemistry and as clinical biochemistry)

• Child and adolescent psychiatry (also known as child psychiatry)

• Clinical genetics

• Clinical neurophysiology

• Clinical oncology (also known as radiotherapy)

• Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (also known as pharmacology)

• Clinical radiology* (also known as diagnostic radiology and formerly known as radiology)

• Dermatology

• Gastro-enterology

• General psychiatry* (also known as psychiatry, as general adult psychiatry, and as mental illness)

• Genito-urinary medicine (also known as venerology)

• Geriatric medicine (formerly known as geriatrics)

• Histopathology

• Immunology (also known as immunopathology)

• Infectious diseases (also known as communicable diseases)

• Medical microbiology (also known as microbiology and bacteriology)

• Medical virology

• Neurology*

• Nuclear medicine

• Obstetrics and gynaecology*

• Occupational medicine

• Oral and maxillo-facial surgery (also known as dental, oral and maxillo-facial surgery (basic medical and dental training))

• Paediatrics*

• Public health medicine (also known as community medicine)

• Renal medicine (also known as renal disease, and formerly known as nephrology)

• Respiratory medicine* (also known as thoracic medicine)

• Rheumatology

• Tropical medicine

PART 3 Specialties requiring a minimum training period of three years

• Anaesthetics*

• Endocrinology and diabetes mellitus (also known as endocrinology)

• Haematology (also known as general haematology)

• Ophthalmology*

• Otolaryngology* (also known as otorhinolaryngology, and as ENT surgery)

PART 4 Specialties with no minimum training period

• Acute internal medicine

• Allergy

• Audio vestibular medicine (formerly known as audiological medicine)

• Community sexual and reproductive health

• Diagnostic neuropathology

• Forensic histopathology

• Forensic psychiatry

• Intensive care medicine

• Medical ophthalmology

• Medical psychotherapy (formerly known as psychotherapy)

• Old age psychiatry

• Paediatric cardiology

• Paediatric and perinatal pathology

• Palliative medicine

• Pharmaceutical medicine

• Psychiatry of learning disability

• Rehabilitation medicine

• Sport and exercise medicine

• [Note: The specialties marked * above are those listed in Annex V, point 5.1.3 of the Directive which are common to all relevant European States. The remaining specialties are those in which the United Kingdom awards a qualification but which are peculiar to two or more relevant European States.]”.

Richard Tilbrook

Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order substitutes the Schedule to the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010 (S.I.2010/473). The Schedule lists the specialties recognised by the United Kingdom.

The substituted Schedule—

(a) adds diagnostic neuropathology, forensic histopathology, paediatric and perinatal pathology, and vascular surgery as recognised specialties;

(b) in accordance with Council Directive 2005/36 EC(3) it includes an entry for histopathology (which requires a minimum training period of four years);

(c) specifies a minimum training period of five years for medical oncology;

(d) specifies a minimum training period of fours years for clinical genetics;

(e) changes the name of the specialty of audiological medicine to audio vestibular medicine;

(f) changes the name of the specialty of psychotherapy to medical psychotherapy.

(1)

1983 c. 54. Section 34D was inserted by 2010/234, article 4 and Schedule 1, paragraph 10.

(2)

S.I. 2010/473.

(3)

Annex V, point 5.1.3.