Specialty training recruitment
Medical speciality recruitment timeline 2025
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Round 1 Indicative numbers
Specialty |
Indicative Numbers |
| ACCS - Anaesthetics | 12-16 |
| ACCS - Emergency Medicine | 14-18 |
| ACCS - IM | 2 |
| Cardiothoracic Surgery | 0 |
| Clinical Radiology | 10-20 |
| Community Sexual and Reproductive Health | 0 |
| Core Anaesthetics | 2-5 |
| Core Psychiatry | 23-30 |
| Core Surgery | 33-38 |
| Core Surgery - IST | 3 |
| Histopathology | 1-2 |
| IMT | 65-75 |
| Neurosurgery | 0-1 |
| Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 9 |
| Ophthalmology | 3-5 |
| Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ST1 | 1-2 |
| Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ST3 | 0-1 |
| Paediatrics ST1 | 16-20 |
| Public Health | 2 |
| WCAT | 1-5 |
Round 2 Indicative numbers
| Acute Medicine | 1-2 |
| Anaesthetics | 7-10 |
| Cardiology | 2-7 |
| Chemical Pathology | 1 |
| Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 1-3 |
| Clinical Genetics | 0 |
| Clinical Neurophysiology | 0-1 |
| Clinical Oncology | 3-4 |
| Clinical Pharmacology | 0-1 |
| Combined Infection Training | 1-2 |
| Dermatology | 1-4 |
| Diabetes and Endocrinology | 3-7 |
| Emergency Medicine | 1-2 |
| Forensic Psychiatry | 1-2 |
| Gastroenterology | 0-1 |
| General Adult Psychiatry | 1-3 |
| General Surgery | 0-2 |
| Genito-Urinary Medicine | 2 |
| Geriatrics | 4-7 |
| Haematology | 0-1 |
| ICM | 6 |
| Immunology | 0 |
| Medical Oncology | 3-5 |
| Neurology | 1-2 |
| Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 3-5 |
| Old Age Psychiatry | 0-2 |
| Otolaryngology | 2-4 |
| Paediatrics ST3 | 0 |
| Paediatrics ST4 | 0-1 |
| Palliative Medicine | 1-2 |
| PEM (Subspecialty) | August 2025- 1 February 2026 - 1-2 |
| Plastic Surgery | 1-2 |
| Psychiatry of Learning Disability | 0-1 |
| Rehabilitation | 1 |
| Renal Medicine | 1-2 |
| Respiratory Medicine | 4-6 |
| Rheumatology | 1-3 |
| Trauma and Orthopaedics | 5-12 |
| Urology | 1-4 |
| Vascular Surgery | 1-3 |
Applicant guides:
Applicant guides and additional information for applicants to the Wales only vacancies can be found below.
Wales Clinical Academic Track (WCAT) The Wales Clinical Academic Track (WCAT) - HEIW
Wales Otolaryngology ST3 and Wales Trauma and Orthopaedics ST3 – please see the advertisement and associated documents on Oriel.
Useful links:
Related documents:
- Relocation expenses policy
- Please note: pay scales in Wales are different to the other nations. Please refer to the following link for more information - Pay scales in Wales
Information for applicants from the EU
Please visit the GOV.UK website for up to date information for EU citizens moving to the UK following the UK's departure from the EU (Brexit).
Information for applicants from outside of the EU
From 6 October 2019, all medical practitioners have been added to the Shortage Occupation List in the UK. This means that medical practitioners are exempt from the Resident Labour Market Test (RLMT) when applying to foundation and specialty training programmes, with the exception of Public Health, subject to eligibility.