In this page:
- Section 1: Information About the Writer
- Section 2: Scope of Practice in the UK
- Section 3: Type of Training/ Route to Training
- Section 4: Subspecialties
- Section 5: Application Process
- Section 6: Requirements To Get Into Training (Person Specification)
- Section 7: Important CV/Portfolio Perks (How To Achieve Them)
- Section 8: The Interview
- Section 9: Competition Ratio
- Section 10: Offers and Visa Issues and HEE
- Section 11: Speciality Exams
- Section 12: Speciality Courses
- Section 13: Rotations
- Section 14: Ranking of Deaneries
- Section 15: Wages / Take Home Cash
- Section 16: MTI
- Section 17: Experience of Sudanese Doctors (Personal Experience)
- Section 18: Important Links and websites[/su_note]
Section 1: Information about the writer
Khalid Alsir HASSAN – Senior Registrar/Specialty Trainee (ST8)
Currently employed by Sheffield Children’s Hospital – South Yorkshire
Section 2: Scope of practice in the UK:
Paediatrics is a unique specialty, and the practice here in the UK is quite different from what we see back home, or in the middle east. There are general cautions that you will be able to recognise and adapt to very quickly after you start working. You will need to get more experience with certain paediatric procedures (e.g. Consent, ethics & safeguarding). Most of the overseas doctors adapt very quickly, and do great! So no need to get worried. Always, there is someone available to help and provide advice. You just need to ask!
Here in the UK, after successful completion of a medical degree (MBBS equivalent), the two years following medical school will be spent by a newly qualified doctor in the foundation programme (House officer equivalent) to bridge the move from medical school to specialty training.
