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Each recruitment office must publish in advance on their website, the timetable they are working to, including when applications open and close and interview dates, so that you can plan your applications.

 

Please use the link to the Timetable for Recruitment for a summary timeline to help you prepare.

Key dates in 2010

• Recruitment to CT1 in Psychiatry opens 30 November 2009 (deadline for applications 15 January 2010)
• First main recruitment round opens 4 December 2009. This is mainly to ST1 and CT1 posts and some run-through specialties – Paediatrics and Child Health and Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Deadline for Round 1 applications 18 December 2009
• GP recruitment opens 7 December 2009
• Deadline for GP applications 20 December 2009
• Interviews from 6 January 2010
• Round 1 ends 26 March 2010
• Second recruitment round opens 6 April 2010
• Round 2 job offers by 14 June 2010, where possible, for August start date
• Recruitment to CT2, CT3, ST3 (for uncoupled specialties) starts from 15 February 2010
• Recruitment to fill vacancies continues to end November 2010

2010 recruitment for Academic Clinical Fellowships (ACFs)

2010 recruitment for Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF) posts started on 2 November 2009.  The deadline for applications is 4 December 2009.

This recruitment process is run by the National Institute for Health Research Trainees Coordinating Centre. For details, please visit the NIHR Trainees Coordinating Centre website http://www.nihrtcc.nhs.uk/

About the different rounds of recruitment to specialty training

The first and main recruitment round for specialty training programmes in 2010 ends on 26 March 2010 for CT1/ST1 programmes and other training levels in some run-through specialites that are using a nationally coordinated recruitment process.

 

A second round of recruitment will run from 6 April 2010, including all posts that remain unfilled from Round 1, together with posts being advertised for the first time at CT2/ST2, CT3 and ST3 levels.

 

If you have been unsuccesful in the first round of recruitment to specialty training, the second round gives you another opportunity to secure a training place with an August 2010 start date, where possible.

 

Applicants who are still waiting for offers following interviews in the first round of recruitment, shouldn’t be alarmed to see the same specialties advertised in the second round. No Round 2 offers will be made until the first round has closed. Deaneries are advertising based on the knowledge that there will still be opportunities available. This does not in any way disadvantage your application in the first round of recruitment.

 

Please note, if you have accepted a Round 1 post and decide to apply again in Round 2, you will need to give the required period of notice before you can take up the new post.