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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-specialist-medical-qualifications-order-1995/schedule-2/part-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-specialist-medical-qualifications-order-1995/schedule-2/part-I.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3208",
  "legislation_title": "The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-specialist-medical-qualifications-order-1995",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "SPECIALTIES WITH MINIMUM TRAINING PERIODS",
  "text": "Five years\nGeneral medicine*\nGeneral surgery*\nNeurological surgery* (also known as neurosurgery)\nOrthopaedic surgery* (also known as trauma and orthopaedic surgery)\nPaediatric surgery\nPlastic surgery\nThoracic surgery (also known as cardio-thoracic surgery)\nUrology*\nFour years\nCardio-vascular disease (also known as cardiology)\nChemical pathology\nChild and adolescent psychiatry\nClinical pharmacology and therapeutics\nCommunicable diseases (also known as infectious diseases)\nCommunity medicine (also known as public health medicine)\nDermatology\nDiagnostic radiology (also known as radiology)\nGastro-enterology\nGeriatrics\nImmunology (also known as immunopathology)\nMedical microbiology (also known as medical microbiology and virology)\nMorbid anatomy and histopathologŷ (also known as histopathology)\nNeurology*\nNuclear medicine\nObstetrics and gynaecology*\nOccupational medicine\nOral and maxillo-facial surgery (basic medical and dental training)\nPaediatrics*\nPsychiatry* (also known as mental illness)\nRadiotherapy (also known as clinical oncology)\nRenal disease (also known as nephrology)\nRespiratory medicine* (also known as thoracic medicine)\nRheumatology\nTropical medicine\nVenereology (also known as genito-urinary medicine)\nThree years\nAnaesthetics*\nEndocrinology and diabetes mellitus\nHaematology\nOphthalmology*\nOtolaryngology*\nNote: The specialties marked * above are those listed in article 5(3) of the Directive (specialties common to all EEA States). The others are those listed in article 7(2) of the Directive (specialties peculiar to two or more EEA States) in which the United Kingdom is shown as awarding qualifications.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am. (entry subst.)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2928",
      "affecting_title": "The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2928",
      "affecting_title": "The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1373",
      "affecting_title": "The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1373",
      "affecting_title": "The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3154",
      "affecting_title": "The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/849",
      "affecting_title": "The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3208/schedule/2/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:04.911171+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}