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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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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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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 trainee, you must apply to the College for confirmation of your completion of training to e...
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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 ...
News

Child safety fears and long waiting times highlighted as Royal College calls for more doctors in the community

6 September 2017
A new report, published today by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and the British Association for Community Child Health (BACCH), highlights an alarming 25% shortfall in the number of community paediatricians.