The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment Regulations 1999

Amendment of the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995

2.—(1) The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In article 2(1)(b) (interpretation)(2), at the end, insert “ , and by Commission Directive 98/21/EC of 8th April 1998(3), and by Commission Directive 98/63/EC of 3rd September 1998(4)”.

(3) In Schedule 2 (which lists medical specialties in which qualifications are awarded in the United Kingdom), in Part I–

(a) immediately under the heading “Five years”, add the entry “ Accident and emergency medicine”;

(b) after the entry for “child and adolescent psychiatry”, add the entry “ clinical neurophysiology”; and

(c) for the entries specified in column 1 below(5), substitute in the appropriate alphabetical position under the relevant minimum training period the corresponding entry in column 2 below–

“Column 1	Column 2
Existing entry	New entry
General medicine* (also known as general (internal) medicine)	General (internal) medicine* (formerly known as general medicine)
Neurological surgery* (also known as neurosurgery)	Neurosurgery* (formerly known as neurological surgery)
Orthopaedic surgery* (also known as trauma and orthopaedic surgery)	Trauma and orthopaedic surgery* (formerly known as orthopaedic surgery)
Thoracic surgery (also known as cardio-thoracic surgery)	Cardio-thoracic surgery (formerly known as thoracic surgery)
Cardio-vascular disease (also known as cardiology)	Cardiology (formerly known as cardio-vascular disease)
Communicable diseases (also known as infectious diseases)	Infectious diseases (formerly known as communicable diseases)
Community medicine (also known as public health medicine)	Public health medicine (formerly known as community medicine)
Diagnostic radiology (also known as clinical radiology and formerly known as radiology)	Clinical radiology (formerly known as diagnostic radiology, and as radiology)
Geriatrics (also known as geriatric medicine)	Geriatric medicine (formerly known as geriatrics)
Medical microbiology (also known as medical microbiology and virology)	Medical microbiology and virology (formerly known as medical microbiology)
Morbid anatomy and histopathology* (also known as histopathology)	Histopathology* (formerly known as morbid anatomy and histopathology)
Psychiatry* (also known as general psychiatry or general adult psychiatry and formerly known as mental illness)	General psychiatry* (formerly known as psychiatry, as general adult psychiatry, and as mental illness)
Radiotherapy (also known as clinical oncology)	Clinical oncology (formerly known as radiotherapy)
Renal disease (also known as renal medicine and formerly known as nephrology)	Renal medicine (formerly known as renal disease, and as nephrology)
Venereology (also known as genito-urinary medicine)	Genito-urinary medicine (formerly known as venereology)”

(4) In Part II of Schedule 2–

(a) omit “Accident and emergency medicine” and “Clinical neurophysiology ”; and

(b) in the appropriate alphabetical positions, insert “Allergy” and “ Intensive care medicine”.

(1)

S.I. 1995/3208, amended by S.I. 1997/2928.

(2)

Article 2(1)(b) was previously amended by S.I. 1997/2928.

(3)

OJ No. L119, 22.4.98, p. 15.

(4)

OJ No. L253, 15.9.98, p. 24.

(5)

The entries in column 1 for general medicine, diagnostic radiology, geriatrics, psychiatry and renal disease were amended by S.I. 1997/2928, regulation 2(6)(a).