General

E-learning resources support paediatricians and other child health professionals to achieve the essential competences in a number of important areas. These can be used to support your training and CPD.

The British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU) has produced a guidance document for researchers on how to involve patients and the public in their research. PPI is especially important in research which does not involve individual consent, as carried out by researchers undertaking studies through the BPSU, to ensure openness, transparency and accountability to the public.

For a paediatrician to take up a substantive, honorary or fixed-term consultant appointment in the NHS, it is a legal requirement that they must be listed on the Specialist Register at the General Medical Council (GMC).

For entry to the Specialist Register a trainee must apply to the College for confirmation of completion of training (Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration Combined Programme (CESR CP)). The College will make an assessment of your training and make a recommendation to the GMC.

This process must be followed when applying for approval of major changes to an existing programme, for example an increase or decrease in maximum training capacity.

Maximum Training Capacity (MTC)

Every paediatric training programme has an agreed MTC which is defined by the GMC in Section 3 of their approvals guidance as;