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Become a Junior Member
Junior membership provides you with the best start to your paediatric career with access to specialist support and a wide range of learning resources.
Paediatric training
We monitor postgraduate specialty training in paediatrics in the UK. If you're considering a paediatric career or are in the middle of your training pathway, see our paediatric training page, and if you supervise trainees, see our supporting training page.
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Medical Training Initiative (paediatrics) - guidance for NHS Trusts and Health Boards
The MTI(p) scheme provides paediatricians from outside the UK / European Economic Area two years of high quality postgraduate training in the NHS. MTI(p) doctors can take up spare training capacity, providing a low cost and longer term alternative to locum appointments. This is a step-by-step guide ...
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Specialty training at ST3 - application guidance
This page is for doctors applying for paediatric specialty training (ST) at ST3 in the UK. It covers the application process, including the application timeline, eligibility criteria, post numbers and our webinar. You can download the full applicant guide, person specification, scoring framework and...
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Assessment guide
This guide is for trainee paediatricians in the UK. Most of the assessments you can undertake are formative - they assist in your development and indicate possible improvements - and are called Supervised Learning Events. Some are summative and are called Assessments of Performance. These are availa...
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Medical Training Initiative (paediatrics) - guidance for applicants
The MTI(p) scheme provides paediatricians from outside the UK / European Economic Area two years of high quality postgraduate training in the NHS. Graduates can use this experience to improve patient care in their home countries, and UK hospitals benefit from their skills and knowledge. If you're in...
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Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT)
Paediatricians are legally required to be listed on the Specialist Register at the General Medical Council (GMC) when they take up a substantive, honorary or fixed-term consultant appointment in the NHS. As a postgraduate doctor in training (trainee), you must apply to the College for confirmation o...
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Focus magazine for members - winter 2017
26 December 2017
Read about RCPCH Conference, find out about our Invited Reviews service, explore emerging results from the Facing the Future audit and more...
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Training and Quality Board
The Training & Quality Board (TQB) was founded in March 2021 following a restructure of the Education & Training Division and subsumed the Assessment Board and some responsibilities of the Education & Training Quality Committee (ETQC). The TQB’s purpose is to manage the strategy and operations plan ...
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Shape of Training review response - position statement (2017)
The Shape of Training report provided a timely opportunity to review how doctors are trained to meet changing needs of patients in the UK. We wish to see more integration between paediatric, primary care and mental health training.