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
Section 1: Information about the writer
Husham Elfaki Abdalla
ST6 Sheffield University Teaching Hospitals
Section 2: Scope of practice in the UK:
- Wide range of skills including scopes (bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound and thoracoscopy)
- Thoracic ultrasound
- Pleural procedures including indwelling pleural catheters
- Non-invasive ventilation
- Airway diseases, lung cancer, TB, Sleep medicine, pleural infections, occupation lung diseases and interstitial lung diseases.
Section 3: Type of Training/ Route to Training
- A 5 years programme coupled with GIM (General internal Medicine) this means that you will be qualified as a respiratory and general internal medicine physician.
- Through your 5 years you will have one portfolio with 2 sets of curricula and at the end of every year will have an Annual review of clinical competence (ARCP) for both specialities.
- You would be expected to attend regular deanery organised training days for respiratory and GIM (70% attendance every year) and you are expected to keep your own log books for USS, chest drains, bronchoscopies etc.
- You have the opportunity to go out of programme at any time for a fellowship or research and you are also allowed unpaid leave for a maximum of 2 years if you wish to have a break from work at any time.
- Towards the End of your training you must sit and pass a speciality certificate exam which is a paper exam delivered by the royal college of physicians.
