Specialist training

For comprehensive information on medical specialties go to the Specialty Pages of www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk .

This site, run by KSS Deanery on behalf of all the Deaneries, gives detailed information about training pathways, competition ratios, what to expect in the specialty and so on. There are also short videos made by West Midlands Deanery of specialists talking about their job and what it entails.

Check out the College site for the specialty you're interested in as these sites are developing all the time. The Royal College of Surgeons of England, for instance, has a whole section devoted to Training and within that has a set of biographical careers stories .