Curriculum

• The competences that need to be achieved by trainees through their stages of training in becoming a paediatrician
• The assessment strategy through the whole of their training to successful completion and the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT)

Using the Curriculum and its benefits

• Trainees will be able to develop their personal development plans and chart their progress through training, ensuring they are gaining the appropriate experiences and continuing to develop towards being a consultant. This contributes to appraisal, self-assessment, self-directed learning and educational meetings.
• Trainers will be able to ensure their trainees are developing in the correct areas and ensure their teaching covers the right areas.  It will also help them complete their end of post review.
• Tutors will be able to ensure local teaching programmes map to the curriculum.
• Lay people will be able to see what their paediatricians are working towards in their training.

A summary of the Paediatric Training Assessment Pathway(PDF, 38KB, 1 page) gives a visual overview of the compentencies to be gained at each level of training. 

Curriculum Documents

The table below gives links to the curriculum, the assessment standards and the assessment tools for each level of training, where available. These are the most up-to-date versions:

Further information about assessments

Workplace based assessments

Examinations

Medical Leadership Framework

To see how the curriculum maps to the Medical Leadership Framework please download the following document:

Paediatrics Medical Leadership Framework(PDF, 274KB, 39 pages)