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RCPCH Progress+ (from summer 2023)

The General Medical Council approved our plans for a two-level, run through specialty training programme, in response to the Shape of training review. Live from summer 2023, Progress+ builds on the current curriculum, and will be flexible and fulfilling. Our FAQs, resources and updates outline what to expect.
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What will happen in RCPCH ePortfolio

When Progress+ launches next summer, your data will continue to be available in RCPCH ePortfolio. Our Associate Director for Assessments, Steve Beglan-Witt, gives a brief explainer by video.

Watch the video

Principle 8: Educational supervision is of high quality and provides consistency

RCPCH Progress+ Training principle of the month

What does good supervision mean and what are the different forms of supervision? Join Dr Emma Dyer, Dr Diarmuid McLaughlin, Dr Shilpa Shah and Dr Kumudini Gomez for our latest training principle of the month.

Principle of the month 8

Other training principles explored so far...

An introduction to the 11 training principles
1: Every patient encounter is a learning opportunity
2: Complex care provides rich learning opportunities
3: Clinical reasoning skills are explicitly taught within training
4: Patients and families are heard
5: A biopsychosocial approach is applied at all times
6: Leadership skills are developed and nurtured
7: Training time and learning opportunities are prioritised
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Frequently asked questions

As a current or prospective trainee, or as an educational supervisors, we understand you'll have questions about how these changes will affect you and your colleagues. Our FAQs are from conversations with clinicians around the UK.
FAQs

Good practice across UK

Trusts, deaneries and teams around the country are preparing for RCPCH Progress+. We recommend five good practice areas, and our maps show which College regions are starting to embed these.
Good practice maps

New curriculum and syllabi

You can now download the Progress+ curriculum document, which includes the Learning Outcomes and Key Capabilities all trainees will need, as well as the two syllabi for core and specialty training. For use from summer 2023.
Curriuclum and syllabi

Key resources - new for 2022

Progress+ and me - information for trainees in training in 2021/22
From Progress to Progress+ - presentation slides

Further resources

Read our guide to really good training, 'Paediatrician of the Future' (Oct 2020)
Download our factsheet on the background and RCPCH plan (updated Mar 2022)
Watch webinar with Dr Cathryn Chadwick and Dr Christine Pierce at NACT UK meeti…
Listen to interview with Dr David Evans on our future plans (Sep 2020)
Watch webinar about implications for service leads (Oct 2020)
See children's ideas about the “best doctor of the future" (Oct 2020)
Our upcoming courses in Effective Educational supervision
Questions or comments? Contact us on progress-plus@rcpch.ac.uk
Reminder on the progress of Progress+