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Training Standards Committee

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.

  • It sets the standards for EM training and assessment within the GMC framework and works with other College committees to develop the curriculum and assessment system
  • It provides advice to trainees and trainers in the UK on training and assessment and acts as a link between the EM Schools/deaneries/Specialty Training Committees and the College and the GMC
  • It evaluates EM CESR applications received from the GMC and coordinates the Medical Training Initiative (MTI) on behalf of the College
  • It works with Health Education England and the devolved equivalents to set standards for entry to training and recruitment to training posts.

This page contains guidance from the committee for trainers, EM Schools, Training Programme Directors, deaneries/HE regions and trainees.

Educational Supervisor Guide to RCEM Curriculum

The Educational Supervisor Guide for the 2021 curriculum is now available. (Updated March 2022)

Training Recovery Plans

The Committee has also produced guidance on Training Recovery Plans

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RCEM TSC Guidance

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)

Educational Development Time for EM trainees

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.

Specialty Tutor (was “College Tutor”)

The Committee advises that:

  • The title of the role shall be ‘Specialty Tutor’
  • The role should be accountable to the Director of Medical Education (DME)
  • Good practice is that the Head of School should contribute to avoid an individual Specialty Tutor giving advice without any counterbalance or checks
  • The role should include being an examiner so that there is some link with College quality assurance
  • The Specialty Tutor should be up to date with his/her CPD.

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.

Bringing Forward CCT

The committee has released its position on reducing training time for EM Trainees.

See the document: TSC position on early CCT

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Externalities

External Booking for ARCP Meetings
To Be Confirmed

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.



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