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Minimum training period of five years | ||
Emergency medicine (also known as accident and emergency medicine) | ||
General (internal) medicine* (formerly known as general medicine) | ||
General surgery* | ||
Neurosurgery* (also known as neurological surgery) | ||
Trauma and orthopaedic surgery* (also known as orthopaedics, and formerly known as orthopaedic surgery) | ||
Paediatric surgery | ||
Plastic surgery* | ||
Cardio-thoracic surgery (also known as thoracic surgery) | ||
Urology* | ||
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 neurophysiology | ||
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (also known as pharmacology) | ||
Infectious diseases (also known as communicable diseases) | ||
Public health medicine (also known as community medicine) | ||
Dermatology | ||
Clinical radiology* (also known as diagnostic radiology and formerly known as radiology) | ||
Gastro-enterology | ||
Geriatric medicine (formerly known as geriatrics) | ||
Immunology (also known as immunopathology) | ||
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* | ||
General psychiatry* (also known as psychiatry, as general adult psychiatry, and as mental illness) | ||
Clinical oncology (also known as radiotherapy) | ||
Renal medicine (also known as renal disease, and formerly known as nephrology) | ||
Respiratory medicine* (also known as thoracic medicine) | ||
Rheumatology | ||
Tropical medicine | ||
Genito-urinary medicine (also known as venereology) | ||
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) | ||
No minimum training period | ||
Acute internal medicine | ||
Allergy | ||
Audiological medicine | ||
Clinical genetics | ||
Community sexual and reproductive health | ||
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 | ||
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.] |
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