Download and use our Microsoft Excel workbook to help effectively plan your future training. This is most effective for trainees in specialty training, and is not intended to predict a completion date.
About the guide to training progression
The guide can help you:
- More effectively plan your training, including the final stages
- Check you are meeting the training requirements for completion, however complicated your training pathway
- Assess the impact of placements, which may not be included for training, on your expected CCT (Certificate of Completion of Training) date
This guide is not intended as a calculator to predict a completion date. Your progress and future time in training will be reviewed and amended as necessary at ARCP (Annual Review of Competence of Progression). For more details, see the Training guide - Progressing through training and ARCP.
How to use the guide
You can download the guide below. It's a Microsoft Excel file with three tabs:
- Instructions - This explains how to complete it.
- Training Progression Guide - This is where you can enter all your posts, training and non-training, that have led to your CCT. It calculates the time in training at Core and Specialty levels and it projects the indicative number of days remaining for completion, based on your expected Working Time Equivalent in future posts
- Example - This demonstrates how the the guide can be used
Note: some browsers may not allow you to open Excel file directly. If this happens, please right-click the link and use the "Save link as..." menu option to download the file.
Career planning and the guide
- The guide to training progression counts the number of days you are expected to take in the programme based on your training to date and assuming 12 months WTE at each grade.
- The calculated remaining time in training may be affected by career changes, change in WTE or individual training progress.
- If you are working less than full time (LTFT), remember that you will need to complete 365 days WTE at each training grade, unless capability based progression has been agreed at the appropriate gateway by an ARCP panel. (See our guidance on paediatric training and capability progression.)
- The guide is more effective towards the end of training, and is intended to enable you the plan the final stages of your training more effectively.
- Due to the complexity of counting training days, particularly for those who are LTFT or have had time out of training, the indicative CCT and/or the days in training at each grade is subject to change by trainers or at the ARCP panel. It should be remembered that this tool is only a guide to aid the maths and not a definite indication of time in training.
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