Paediatric sub-specialty careers event - online

If you're planning to apply to paediatric sub-specialty training, or would like to find out more about the sub-specialties, join us for one or both of our online information events. You'll meet paediatricians working on the frontline in sub-specialties as well as the RCPCH Medical Recruitment team who can guide you through the recruitment process.
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This event is free of charge and aimed at trainee paediatricians interested in applying for sub-specialty training. Medical students and foundation doctors are also welcome.

About this event

Join the RCPCH Medical Recruitment Team for one or both evening sessions (18:00 - 20:30) to hear about the recruitment process into sub-specialty training, ask questions and speak to post graduate doctors in training (PGDiT) and consultants working in paediatric sub-specialties.

The sessions will take place online on Microsoft Teams. The RCPCH Medical Recruitment Team will deliver a presentation on the recruitment process, followed by a Q&A in the first hour of both sessions. Then registrants will have up to one and a half hours to move freely between the virtual rooms and have the opportunity to ask paediatric sub-specialty PGDiTs and consultants any questions.

The Recruitment Team's presentation will be recorded and available to watch on the RCPCH YouTube channel and the sub-specialty application guidance web page after the event; however, the sub-specialty virtual rooms will not be recorded.

Monday 8 June session 18:00 - 20:30

We'll cover these sub-specialties:

  • Paediatric Allergy
  • Paediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology 
  • Paediatric Emergency Medicine 
  • Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
  • Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Medicine
  • Paediatric Neurology
  • Paediatric Palliative Medicine
  • Paediatric Respiratory

Wednesday 10 June session 18:00 - 20:30

We'll cover these sub-specialties:

  • General Paediatrics (this is the only sub-specialty into which you are automatically transitioned upon completion of core training; no application is required)
  • Community Child Health
  • Neonatal Medicine
  • Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases
  • Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine
  • Paediatric Nephrology
  • Paediatric Neurodisability
  • Paediatric Oncology
  • Paediatric Rheumatology

Please note that there are other paediatric specialties, outside of the RCPCH training programme, for which you need to contact the appropriate Association or Royal College to find out more. See list at the bottom of Paediatric sub-specialties.

More about applying for sub-specialty training

You can find out more about the application process on our application guidance web page and more about each sub-specialty, including their syllabi, on our sub-specialty web pages.

If you have any questions about the event, please email the RCPCH Medical Recruitment Team at subspecialty@rcpch.ac.uk.

Highlights of the event from previous registrants

The event was very informative and was able to help me make a decision.

Getting to interact with specialists in my interested field and having to hear experiences from current trainees. It was a good overview and interactive session.

Very enlightening. Practical examples of each of the specialties. Great opportunities to ask questions.