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Recruitment

Up to date information relating to medical, dental, academic and national recruitment specialties is available through alternative sources: Vacancy information, handbooks and supporting documents can be accessed via Oriel. Medical specialty recruitment information, including person specifications, is available via the Specialty Training website. Dental recruitment information is available via the Dental Trainee Recruitment website. Academic recruitment information is available via the NIHR website

Standard operating procedures and forms

If you need up to date versions of our standard operating procedures or forms, please use the contact us page to help direct your query.

Trainee Information.

Curriculum

The General Surgical curriculum was updated in August 2013. More details can be found under the curriculum tab within your ISCP account.

Some key changes for 2013 were:

A greater emphasis on emergency general surgery; ideally as blocks of training to gain continuity of care.

As vascular has become a separate subspecialty there is a reduction in the vascular surgery within the general surgical syllabus.

Full 2013 syllabus

FRCS Exam

Trainees will not be permitted to make a 1^st attempt at the MCQ until entering their ST7 year. You are required to have an outcome 1 at your ARCP.

CCT and benchmark guidelines

Below are links to the JCST CCT guidelines and also the ST4 and ST6 benchmark guidelines.

JCST Guidelines for CCT

JCST ST4 Benchmark

JCST ST6 Benchmark