The growing bottlenecks in specialty training

This month hundreds of doctors in the UK will join core (CT) or higher (ST) specialty training programmes, having completed their foundation (F1 and F2) training (box 1). Some will have been fortunate enough to join their first choice of specialty. Others will find themselves taking an unhoped-for year out to bolster their CVs with junior fellow jobs, publications, and prizes before reapplying for the next cycle in the hope of landing a preferred post.Box 1The training pathway explainedAfter completing two years of foundation training (F1 and F2), doctors have the option to begin specialty training (fig 1).Some specialties have uncoupled training programmes. Doctors undertake a number of years of core training, during which they are known as CT followed by the number of their training year (CT1, CT2, CT3, etc). After this they apply to enter higher specialty training, during which they are known as ST followed by their…
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