• Recruitment
• Regulation of Training
  • Regulatory Bodies
  • Training policies
  • Training programme directors
  • Trainee responsibilities
  • Faculty enrolment
• Training Placements
  • Locations
  • Deaneries
  • Specialist training posts
  • 'National Treasures'
  • Out of programme experience
  • Overseas placements
• Assessment
  • Knowledge
  • Competence
• The Training Portfolio
• Completion of training
  • CCT criteria
  • Applying for posts
  • Leaving the programme
• Supervisors
  • Educational supervisor
  • Attachment/project supervisor
  • Academic tutor
• Programme Liaison
• Overseas doctors
• CESR and Article 14
• Higher Specialist Training
  • Structure of Training
  • RITAs
• Specialty Training
  • Structure of Training
  • Learning Methods
  • Learning outcomes framework
  • Guidance for Assessors
  • ARCPs

The approved, definitive CCT curricula and associated assessment systems for specialty training were approved by the Postgraduate Medical and Education Training Board (PMETB) in autumn 2006. These curricula make reference to previously used terms such as RITA and Specialist Registrars. However, the new terms as described in the Department of Health's 'A Guide to Postgraduate Specialty Training in the UK' (the 'Gold Guide') replace these terms for trainees appointed to the programmes from
1 August 2007 as follows:

• Specialist training is now referred to as specialty training.
• Specialist Registrar (SpR) is now referred to as Specialty Registrar (StR) through all years of the training programme and is applicable to all specialty trainees.
• A Guide to Postgraduate Specialty Training in the UK (the 'Gold Guide') is applicable to all specialty training.
• Record of in-training assessment (RITA) and VTR forms have now been replaced by the Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP).

The 2007 Curriculum [pdf]

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