The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (Amendment) Order of Council 2012

• Citation: S.I. 2012/344
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (Amendment) Order of Council 2012 and comes into force on 16th March 2012.

Section 2 Amendment

For the Schedule to the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010 (recognised specialties within the United Kingdom), substitute—

Recognised Specialties within the United Kingdom

Specialties requiring a minimum training period of five years

Cardio-thoracic surgery ( also known as thoracic surgery )

Emergency medicine ( also known as accident and emergency medicine )

General (internal) medicine* ( formerly known as general medicine )

General surgery*

Medical oncology

Neurosurgery* ( also known as neurological surgery )

Paediatric surgery

Plastic surgery*

Trauma and orthopaedic surgery* ( also known as orthopaedics, and formerly as orthopaedic surgery )

Urology*

Vascular surgery

Specialties requiring a minimum training period of four years

Cardiology ( formerly known as cardio-vascular disease )

Chemical pathology ( also known as biological chemistry and as clinical biochemistry )

Child and adolescent psychiatry ( also known as child psychiatry )

Clinical genetics

Clinical neurophysiology

Clinical oncology ( also known as radiotherapy )

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics ( also known as pharmacology )

Clinical radiology* ( also known as diagnostic radiology and formerly known as radiology )

Dermatology

Gastro-enterology

General psychiatry* ( also known as psychiatry, as general adult psychiatry, and as mental illness )

Genito-urinary medicine ( also known as venerology )

Geriatric medicine ( formerly known as geriatrics )

Histopathology

Immunology ( also known as immunopathology )

Infectious diseases ( also known as communicable diseases )

Medical microbiology ( also known as microbiology and bacteriology )

Medical virology

Neurology*

Nuclear medicine

Obstetrics and gynaecology*

Occupational medicine

Oral and maxillo-facial surgery ( also known as dental, oral and maxillo-facial surgery ( basic medical and dental training ))

Paediatrics*

Public health medicine ( also known as community medicine )

Renal medicine ( also known as renal disease, and formerly known as nephrology )

Respiratory medicine* ( also known as thoracic medicine )

Rheumatology

Tropical medicine

Specialties requiring a minimum training period of three years

Anaesthetics*

Endocrinology and diabetes mellitus ( also known as endocrinology )

Haematology ( also known as general haematology )

Ophthalmology*

Otolaryngology* ( also known as otorhinolaryngology, and as ENT surgery )

Specialties with no minimum training period

Acute internal medicine

Allergy

Audio vestibular medicine ( formerly known as audiological medicine )

Community sexual and reproductive health

Diagnostic neuropathology

Forensic histopathology

Forensic psychiatry

Intensive care medicine

Medical ophthalmology

Medical psychotherapy ( formerly known as psychotherapy )

Old age psychiatry

Paediatric cardiology

Paediatric and perinatal pathology

Palliative medicine

Pharmaceutical medicine

Psychiatry of learning disability

Rehabilitation medicine

Sport and exercise medicine

[Note: The specialties marked * above are those listed in Annex V, point 5.1.3 of the Directive which are common to all relevant European States. The remaining specialties are those in which the United Kingdom awards a qualification but which are peculiar to two or more relevant European States.]