Higher Specialist
Trainees who were appointed up to and until December 2006 as Specialist Registrars (SpRs) and Public Health Medicine Specialist Trainees (SpTs), follow the approved curricula relating to those training programmes. These trainees will also follow the guidance in the Department of Health's The Guide to Specialist Registrar Training (the 'Orange Book', published February 1998). This Guide explains in detail exactly what trainees can expect at various stages of their SpR training programmes, from entering the grade, through the assessment process, up to the conclusion of training and then leaving the grade.
Terms applicable to these trainees are:
- Specialist training;
- Specialist Registrars (SpRs) and Public Health Medicine Specialist Trainees (SpTs);
- The Guide to Specialist Registrar Training (the 'Orange Book'); and
- Record of in-training assessment (RITA) forms
