Acting Up as a Consultant Under supervision ‘acting up’ provides final year trainees the transitional experience from trainee to consultant. A period of ‘acting up’ offers trainees an opportunity...

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Review of an SAC decision If you are not happy with a decision made by the SAC in relation to an outcome of an application, you may wish to have it reviewed further. Further review of the...

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Exceptional Leave The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) or your Training Programme Director (TPD) may allow an interruption to your training for a total of three months throughout the...

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All logbooks should cover NTN training, stating date from and to and signed by your Training Programme Director. The logbooks (if two are listed then you will need to submit both) should be in...

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UK Trainees The Joint Committee on Surgical Training (JCST) is an intercollegiate body which works on behalf of all four Colleges in the UK and Ireland to support surgical training throughout...

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StR Trainees Those who started approved surgical training in the UK on or after the 1st August 2007 are known as Specialty Registrars (StRs)*. The change in title was part of the Modernising...

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Applications at a Glance The tables below show the documents or processes to be submitted or followed as a StR to the JCST/SAC: Core / LAT / FTSTA Placements Enrolment with your SAC OOP...

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Enrolment All trainees must enrol with the JCST/SAC* via the ISCP website by completing the Core/LAT/FTSTA placement details or the Specialty Enrolment Form. *Gold Guide, section 2.47 which...

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Counting Previous Training There are certain circumstances in which it may be possible for you to have previous training recognised towards your certification, especially if: It was undertaken...

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Less Than Full Time Training If you are considering undertaking less than full time training you will need to: Discuss your intention with your Training Programme Director (TPD) and Deanery to...

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