The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010

• 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.]

Partial exemption

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• (1) Where a person has made an application before IP completion day for inclusion in the General Practitioner Register kept under section 34C of the Act, or the Specialist Register kept under section 34D of the Act, the Registrar may exempt the person from a requirement to complete part (“the relevant part”) of a specialist training course in the United Kingdom if the conditions in paragraph (2) are satisfied.

• (2) The conditions are that—

• (a) the person has before IP completion day already completed the equivalent of the relevant part, whilst completing a specialist training course in a relevant European State and in respect of which the person obtained a qualification; and

• (b) the relevant part does not equate to more than half of the minimum duration of the specialist training course in respect of which the exemption is to apply.

• (3) In this article, “specialist training course” means a course listed in Annex V, point 5.1.3 of the Directive.

Review

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By 1st November 2021, and subsequently at intervals not exceeding 5 years from that date, in accordance with section 30 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, the Secretary of State must—

• (a) carry out a review of the amendments made to this Order by the European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2016;

• (b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

• (c) publish the report.

Relevant European specialist qualifications

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