Glossary of terms | |
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Applicants/candidates | Those applying to IMT are referred to throughout the recruitment process as either 'applicants' or 'candidates'; the terms are used interchangeably and there is no difference between them. |
ARCP | Annual Review of Competence Progression information about this can be found in the Gold Guide |
Assessment centre | This is the stage of recruitment where an applicant will be interviewed. This is referred to as an 'interview' throughout our literature but is often called an 'assessment centre' or 'selection centre' elsewhere. |
CCT | Certificate of Completion of Training |
CESR CP | Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration via the Combined Programme |
CMT | Core Medical Training - this is the core programme which IMT replaced |
CT1 | Core Training year 1 - equivalent to ST1 (Specialty Training year 1). IMT and ACCS-AM training start at CT1 and increase with each year of training (ie CT2 etc.) |
EEA | European Economic Area |
GIS | Guaranteed Interview Scheme |
GMC | The General Medical Council |
IELTS | The International English Language Testing System |
IMT | Internal Medicine Training |
IMY1 | First year of Internal Medicine Training |
IMY2 | Second year of Internal Medicine Training |
IMY3 | Third year of Internal Medicine Training |
JRCPTB | The Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board |
LAS | Locum Appointment (Service) |
LAT | Locum Appointment (Training) |
mini-CEX | Mini Clinical Evaluation eXercise |
MRCP(UK) | Examination diploma denoting Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) |
NES | NHS Education for Scotland |
NIMDTA | The Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency |
NTN | National Training Number |
PSRO | Physician Specialty Recruitment Office in the context of this website, it refers to the the PSRO at Health Education England in London |
R1/round 1 | Round 1 is the initial recruitment phase for IMT posts |
R2/round 2 | Round 2 is the second recruitment episode, mainly for vacancies unfilled from R1 |
RCP |
Royal College of Physicians - there are three royal colleges of physicians: Edinburgh, Glasgow and London |
Region | In recruitment, region refers to bodies that manage postgraduate medical training. Formerly all these were known as deaneries but as the terminology is now different across UK nations, regions is used as a generic term. |
RLMT | Resident Labour Market Test |
ST3 | Specialty Training year 3 |
UKFPO | United Kingdom Foundation Programme Office |