The College’s Training Standards Committee has responsibility for translating the College’s aims for specialty training in Emergency Medicine into working systems throughout the UK.
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The College’s Training Standards Committee (TSC) has responsibility for translating the College’s aims for specialty training in Emergency Medicine into working systems throughout the UK.
This page contains guidance from the committee for trainers, EM Schools, Training Programme Directors, deaneries/HE regions and trainees.
The Educational Supervisor Guide for the 2021 curriculum is now available. (Updated March 2022)
The Committee has also produced guidance on Training Recovery Plans
The TSC have produced the following guidance documents:
Guidance on duration of training for Postgraduate Doctors in Training HoSs / TPDs / Specialty Tutors / ES’s can be accessed here: RCEM TSC Guidance for training faculties final update January 2024 (PDF)
A framework for Paediatric Medicine Training and assessment in ST4-6 (PDF)
The Committee has produced revised recommendations for Educational Development Time
Counting clinical time for EM trainees on OOPR (including higher degree/research fellows)
See the Training Standards Committee recommendations.
The Committee advises that:
The National Association of Clinical Tutors (NACT) has produced a Specialty/College Tutor job description as an appendix to their “Faculty Guide: the Workplace Environment in Postgraduate Medical Training October 2013”.
Counting clinical time for EM trainees on OOPR (including higher degree/research fellows)
Training Standards Committee recommendations can be found here.
Level of Evidence form for CESR-CP
The Committee has produced a Level of Evidence form as a guide for those wishing to enter EM training at a level higher than ST/CT1 by having non-GMC-approved training and experience counted on the CESR-CP (Combined Programme) route. Evidence at levels 1 and 2 is required at recruitment interview.
The committee has released its position on reducing training time for EM Trainees.
See the document: TSC position on early CCT
If you wish to attend an ARCP meeting as an external, please book here: Summer ARCP – Externality Booking.
Once you have booked on to a meeting, the Accreditation Team will put you in contact with the relevant Deanery.
If you have any questions, please email us at training@rcem.ac.uk
The Training Standards Committee (TSC) have developed this External Advisor Handbook which incorporates Academy of Medical Royal Colleges agreed minimum requirements for Colleges and Faculties in relation to Assessors adopted by the GMC.
The handbook provides External Advisors with information on the delivery of specialist externality advice for Annual Reviews of Competence Progression (ARCPs), Deanery/HEE Local Education Provider (LEP) monitoring or targeted visits or Programme Reviews for Emergency Medicine and from an EM context, Acute Care Common Stem (ACCS) Training programmes. A glossary providing further information on these activities can be found in Appendix 5.