New Trainee Welcome Day 2023

These are probably endless, but examples include the dissection of a specimen (e.g. appendix, breast, etc.), undertaking an autopsy or part of an autopsy (e.g. examination of the heart), opening up a specimen for fixation, and making a request for a molecular test on a biopsy.

Yes, you can link all of your evidence to the capabilities in practice (CiPs) in the LEPT system to make this easier.

There is no prescriptive minimum number. Ideally, you would cut up all the specimens that you report. This isn't always possible, but you should try as much as possible.

If you look at the end of the curriculum document (pages 64 and 65), you will see that there are some directed examples there and you can also discuss other examples with your educational supervisor.

This is dictated by your local deanery and training programme director, depending on when you have your annual review of competence progression (ARCP). ARCPs are generally around May/June/July, so your portfolio should be complete, otherwise, you may not get a satisfactory outcome at your ARCP.

Regardless of whoever completes the workplace-based assessments, they should be approved by your educational supervisor. If they are not on the LEPT system, then trainees can put them on as a guest assessor, which the educational supervisor can see. If you are unsure, then please discuss this further with your educational supervisor.

Consultants, SAS, senior biomedical scientists, clinical scientists, trainees and others (for example, an anatomical pathology technologist) can sign off the assessment.

Yes, you can list any different posts you have completed. So, if you do a week at a different hospital, do record it in the training rotations list.

Please contact the Assessment team at: [email protected] who will be able to help you.

Most trainees keep a logbook (e.g. Excel sheet) of all cases cut up and reported. This can be uploaded to LEPT. A summary of this is usually expected at the annual review of competence progression.

You can add these to your personal activities list.

Most trainees will enter after integrated cellular pathology training, but you can apply and enter these specialties later.

You will need to speak to your trust or university about access to these.

Yes, the College will initiate this around February time. If you are a less-than-full-time trainee and wish to complete it later on in your ST1 training, you can let us know at this point and we will remove you from the multi-source feedback and re-initiate it later on.

Please add these in your personal activities section. If you have any documentation, you can upload this to your resources page.

Rather than uploading individual documents for every case, it may be best to keep such comments within your logbook (i.e. Excel for example) and upload the document as a whole, so that there are fewer entries on LEPT.

Yes, they can.

In essence, your educational supervisor should help. You need to demonstrate that you are trained in other specialties. What generally happens is that you get rotated elsewhere where you get the necessary experience. Therefore, please speak to your educational supervisor about how you will be able to access training in obesity and adult inborn errors of metabolism.

It is mainly not the case that you will need to fill out the assessor fields, but the different assessment tools do vary. If the form asks you to fill out an assessor field, but you do not know what to enter, just enter some text asking your assessor to fill out the comments here.

There's useful information on the JRCPTB website. If you are interested, please contact the College regarding the relevant training programme directors in Liverpool for further information.

The role of Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) trainees has evolved over the years. The change in the training has happened in infection specialties mainly because of workforce requirements and looking at the health needs of the populations in terms of laboratory and clinical perspectives. There is a role for both doctors and scientists as all the roles bring different skill sets and they complement each other. We work more in an ever-increasing interprofessional department.

We would suggest talking to your training programme director. They could tailor your training appropriately. You might want to consider out-of-programme experience if it is a particular interest of yours.

If you are keen on general internal medicine (GIM) competencies you should keep a log of your training. You do not need Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in GIM to apply for a job. You have to show you have the relevant capabilities at the interview. We would suggest documenting your evidence and talking to your training programme director. It is important to gain the capabilities and experience rather than CCT.

Regarding the CESR route, from 30 November 2023, doctors applying for specialist via a Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) will need to provide evidence that they have the knowledge, skills and experience required to practise as a specialist in the UK. The framework for assessing knowledge, skills and experience will reflect the high-level learning outcomes (capabilities in practice) of the relevant specialty curriculum.