Welcome to ST3 Recruitment
2010 Recruitment
In 2010, the RCP London - on behalf of the JRCPTB - is piloting a project of co-ordinated recruitment to ST3 posts within the specialties of endocrinology & diabetes, gastroenterology, geriatric medicine and renal medicine in England, Scotland & Wales; and in cardiology in England & Wales (hereafter, these five specialties will be referred to as 'RCP-hosted' or 'hosted' specialties).
The basis for this recruitment process is the successful nationally-coordinated CMT recruitment project that our office has managed since late 2008. It will involve an online application form; standardised short-listing criteria across all hosted specialties and participating deaneries/nations; a coordinated offers process, allowing holding of offers between and within hosted specialties; and 'cascadable' intra-specialty assessment scores - allowing for a streamlined national clearing process to take place.
The RCP-hosted specialties are five of the 30 medical specialties & subspecialties which will be recruiting to ST3 in 2010. All specialties have worked with the Department of Health to schedule recruitment across the service. Consequently, there is a national timeline in place for recruitment, within which we operate, and have developed a confirmed timeline for the RCP-hosted ST3 recruitment process - please see our Calendar for more information on this.
Round 1 & LAT recruitment
The first round of recruitment to RCP-hosted ST3 posts has now closed. All applications have been processed, and the subsequent rounds of local and national clearing within each specialty have been held.
The process of recruiting to LAT posts via the national recruitment system has now also closed. However, please note that in many deaneries and specialties, vacant LAT posts may still be available - thus if you wish to be considered for a LAT post, please do contact any deaneries to which you would be keen to apply.
Round 2
A second round of nationally-coordinated recruitment to ST3 posts within the five hosted specialties will take place, involving deaneries who have vacancies and who are keen to take part.
We will add more information to our website on Round 2 in the coming weeks, including post numbers as and when they are confirmed, but please note that applications can be accessed, completed and submitted, via this website, from 9.00 am on Friday 27 August 2010 onwards.
The deadline for submission of any Round 2 applications is 12.00 midday on Monday 13 September 2010.
ST3 email helpdesk
We have a dedicated email helpdesk for anyone who may have queries relating to ST3 recruitment for the RCP-hosted specialties - this can be reached via email at ST3recruitment@rcplondon.ac.uk. Enquiries to our helpdesk will receive a response within 48 hours (excluding weekends & bank holidays), although typically the response time will be much quicker than this.
In the meantime, we would like to wish all potential applicants to medical ST3 posts in 2010 the very best of luck with their applications.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Bill Burr Dr Liz Berkin
Medical Director Deputy Medical Director
Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board
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