Welcome to ST3

Welcome to ST3 Recruitment 2012 for England, Northern Ireland* & Wales!

This website is currently being modified for 2012 and will contain all information relating to the RCP Specialty Recruitment Office (RCP-SRO) recruitment process for the participating medical specialties (see below) - from assessment of eligibility, consideration of specialty and deanery/UoA, through completion of applications, interviews and offers and clearing.

We are also in the process of adding information pertaining to all ST3 specialties. Please be aware that infomation on the application processes will not appear until next year. This is because we are currently working on refining and redesigning it for 2012. Once details are confirmed they will be announced on our website.

Post numbers and interview dates will be added to the website in February 2012.

Please be aware that although we have information about each ST3 specialty on this site, the recruitment information on the process, calendar, FAQs and statistics relate strictly to the RCP-SRO participating specialties only (see below for list). For information regarding recruitment to other specialties, please follow the recruitment link on the specialties pages.

Participating specialties

There will be 16 confirmed specialties participating in the RCP 2012 ST3 recruitment round 1 (R1). These are:

• acute internal medicine (AIM)
• cardiovascular medicine
• clinical pharmacology & therapeutics (CPT)
• dermatology
• endocrinology & diabetes mellitus
• gastroenterology
• genitourinary medicine (GUM)
• geriatric medicine
• haematology
• infectious diseases (ID)neurology
• palliative medicine
• renal medicine
• rehabilitation medicine
• respiratory medicine
• rheumatology.

These specialties will be referred to throughout this website as 'participating' or 'RCP-SRO-hosted specialties'.

More information on each specialty, including indicative post numbers for each will appear in more detail in 2012, please see the specialties section of this website (see tab above) for details.

Participating deaneries/UoAs

All deaneries across England and Wales will be participating in R1, with Northern Ireland also participating in recruitment to palliative care posts only via this system. Throughout this website, reference is made to Units of Application, or UoAs; these are the bodies which will manage recruitment across different regions. For further information on each of the participating deaneries/UoAs, please see the deaneries/UoAs section.

Please be aware that not all deaneries/UoAs will have vacancies in all specialties; more information on this will be made available from the specialties area of this website over the coming weeks.

Helpdesk

Please be aware that information regarding the RCP-SRO 2012 process will not be available until next year. If you cannot find the answer to your query on this website or in the included guidance, the RCP-SRO runs an email helpdesk for the specialties we manage which can be contacted with any queries relating to ST3 recruitment.

The SRO will respond to all queries within 48 hours (excluding bank holidays and weekends), although typically responses will be sent much more quickly than this. To contact the helpdesk, please send an email to ST3recruitment@rcplondon.ac.uk.

For information regarding recruitment to other specialties, please follow the recruitment link on the specialty pages (link). We are sorry, but we are unable to answer queries regarding other recruitment processes.

Finally, we would like to wish you all good luck with your applications.

Professor Bill Burr and Dr Liz Berkin

Medical Director and Deputy Medical Director, JRCPTB

Specialty Recruitment Office Clinical Lead and ST3 Recruitment Clinical Lead

*Palliative care only