Insertion of section 10B
4. After section 10A (programmes for provisionally registered doctors)(1), insert—
“Professional traineeships carried out in other relevant European States, etc.
10B.—(1) If an acceptable programme for provisionally registered doctors includes a requirement to carry out a professional traineeship of a particular standard, a professional traineeship of an equivalent standard that has been carried out in a relevant European State other than the United Kingdom, by a person who is a national of a relevant European State and who holds a primary United Kingdom qualification, is treated as meeting that requirement.
(2) The General Council must publish guidelines on the organisation and recognition of professional traineeships carried out in relevant European States (including, in particular, guidelines on the role of the supervisor of the professional traineeship).
(3) Any person who—
(a)is not a national of a relevant European State; but
(b)is, by virtue of any enforceable EU right, entitled to be treated, for the purposes of access to and the practice of the medical profession, no less favourably than a national of such a State,
must be treated for the purposes of subsection (1) as if the person were such a national.”.
Section 10A was inserted by S.I. 2006/1914.