The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995

PART III SPECIALIST MEDICAL TRAINING

Certificates of completion of specialist training

6.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), the STA shall award a CCST to any person who applies to the STA for that purpose (and pays any fee determined by the STA) if the STA is satisfied that he has satisfactorily completed specialist medical training, in the specialty stated in his application, approved by the STA pursuant to article 7.

(2) A CCST may be awarded only to a registered medical practitioner; and a CCST in oral and maxillo-facial surgery may be awarded only to a person who is also a registered dentist.

(3) A period of training common to specialist medical training in more than one specialty counts towards completion of the training required for each of them.

(4) The STA may award a CCST in a specialty listed in Schedule 2 only.

(5) A CCST shall state—

(a) the date on which it was awarded;

(b) the specialty in which it was awarded;

(c) the name of its holder; and

(d) his primary medical qualifications and where those qualifications were awarded;

and where more than one year of the training to which the CCST attests took place outside the EEA, the CCST shall make clear that this was so, and shall state the length (in aggregate) of such training.

Minimum requirements of specialist medical training

7.—(1) The STA shall not approve specialist medical training intended to lead to the award of a CCST unless it complies with the requirements of this article; and the STA may withdraw any such approval if it is satisfied that the training no longer complies with those requirements.

(2) The training must constitute an entire course of training in the specialty in question and must, subject to paragraph (3)—

(a) comprise theoretical and practical instruction;

(b) be full-time training;

(c) be supervised by the STA;

(d) comply with the requirements of point 1 of Annex I to the Directive (which sets out the characteristics of the full-time training of specialists, and which is reproduced in Schedule 3);

(e) be in a university centre, in a teaching hospital, or (where the STA is satisfied that it is appropriate) in a health establishment approved for this purpose by the STA;

(f) involve the personal participation of the person training to be a specialist in the activity and in the responsibilities of the establishments concerned; and

(g) be at least as long as the relevant period (if any) specified in Schedule 2.

(3) Part-time specialist medical training is permitted, under conditions approved by the STA, where training on a full-time basis would not be practicable for well-founded individual reasons, and accordingly the STA may approve part-time training which satisfies—

(a) the conditions referred to above in this paragraph;

(b) the conditions set out in sub-paragraphs (a), (c), (e) and (f) of paragraph (2); and

(c) the following conditions—

(i) the standard of training must not be lower than that of full-time training,

(ii) the total length of training in the specialty in question must not be less than that of full-time training in the same specialty, and

(iii) the training must comply with the requirements of point 2 of Annex I to the Directive (which sets out the characteristics of the part-time training of specialists)(1).

(4) The curriculum and any other requirements relating to the training for each specialty, as they have effect from time to time, must be published.

(1)

Annex I to the Directive is set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.