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Article 4(1), (4), (6) and (11), 6(1)(a)(vii), 8(5), 13(2)(a), 14(1) and (4) and 15(1)
Five years |
Accident and emergency medicine |
General (internal) medicine* (formerly known as general medicine) |
General surgery* |
Neurosurgery* (formally known as neurological surgery) |
Trauma and orthopaedic surgery* (formally known as orthopaedic surgery) |
Paediatric surgery |
Plastic surgery* |
Cardio-thoracic surgery (formerly known as thoracic surgery) |
Urology* |
Four years |
Cardiology (formerly known as cardio-vascular disease) |
Chemical pathology (also known as clinical biochemistry) |
Child and adolescent psychiatry |
Clinical neurophysiology |
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics |
Infectious diseases (formerly known as communicable diseases) |
Public health medicine (formerly known as community medicine) |
Dermatology |
Clinical radiology* (formerly known as diagnostic radiology, and as radiology) |
Gastro-enterology |
Geriatric medicine (formerly known as geriatrics) |
Immunology (also known as immunopathology) |
Medical microbiology and virology (formerly known as medical microbiology) |
Histopathology* (formerly known as morbid anatomy and histopathology,) |
Neurology* |
Nuclear medicine |
Obstetrics and gynaecology* |
Occupational medicine |
Oral and maxillo-facial surgery (basic medical and dental training) |
Paediatrics* |
General psychiatry* (formerly known as psychiatry, as general adult psychiatry, and as mental illness) |
Clinical oncology* (formerly known as radiotherapy) |
Renal medicine (formerly known as renal disease, and as nephrology) |
Respiratory medicine* (also known as thoracic medicine) |
Rheumatology |
Tropical medicine |
Genito-urinary medicine (formerly known as venereology) |
Three years |
Anaesthetics* |
Endocrinology and diabetes mellitus |
Haematology |
Ophthalmology* |
Otolaryngology* (also known as ENT surgery) |
Note: The specialties marked * above are those listed in Annex C of the Directive which are common to all EEA States. The remaining specialties are those in which the UK awards a qualification but which are peculiar to two or more EEA States.
Allergy |
Audiological medicine |
Clinical cytogenics and molecular genetics |
Clinical genetics |
Forensic psychiatry |
Intensive care medicine |
Medical oncology |
Medical ophthalmology |
Psychiatry of learning disability |
Old age psychiatry |
Paediatric cardiology |
Palliative medicine |
Pharmaceutical medicine |
Psychotherapy |
Rehabilitation medicine |
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