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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postgraduate-medical-education-and-training-amendment-order-of-council-2012/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/344",
  "legislation_title": "The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (Amendment) Order of Council 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postgraduate-medical-education-and-training-amendment-order-of-council-2012",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment",
  "text": "For the Schedule to the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010 (recognised specialties within the United Kingdom), substitute—\n“SCHEDULE\nRecognised Specialties within the United Kingdom\nArticle 11\nPART 1\nSpecialties requiring a minimum training period of five years\nCardio-thoracic surgery (also known as thoracic surgery)\nEmergency medicine (also known as accident and emergency medicine)\nGeneral (internal) medicine* (formerly known as general medicine)\nGeneral surgery*\nMedical oncology\nNeurosurgery* (also known as neurological surgery)\nPaediatric surgery\nPlastic surgery*\nTrauma and orthopaedic surgery* (also known as orthopaedics, and formerly as orthopaedic surgery)\nUrology*\nVascular surgery\nPART 2\nSpecialties requiring a minimum training period of four years\nCardiology (formerly known as cardio-vascular disease)\nChemical pathology (also known as biological chemistry and as clinical biochemistry)\nChild and adolescent psychiatry (also known as child psychiatry)\nClinical genetics\nClinical neurophysiology\nClinical oncology (also known as radiotherapy)\nClinical pharmacology and therapeutics (also known as pharmacology)\nClinical radiology* (also known as diagnostic radiology and formerly known as radiology)\nDermatology\nGastro-enterology\nGeneral psychiatry* (also known as psychiatry, as general adult psychiatry, and as mental illness)\nGenito-urinary medicine (also known as venerology)\nGeriatric medicine (formerly known as geriatrics)\nHistopathology\nImmunology (also known as immunopathology)\nInfectious diseases (also known as communicable diseases)\nMedical microbiology (also known as microbiology and bacteriology)\nMedical virology\nNeurology*\nNuclear medicine\nObstetrics and gynaecology*\nOccupational medicine\nOral and maxillo-facial surgery (also known as dental, oral and maxillo-facial surgery (basic medical and dental training))\nPaediatrics*\nPublic health medicine (also known as community medicine)\nRenal medicine (also known as renal disease, and formerly known as nephrology)\nRespiratory medicine* (also known as thoracic medicine)\nRheumatology\nTropical medicine\nPART 3\nSpecialties requiring a minimum training period of three years\nAnaesthetics*\nEndocrinology and diabetes mellitus (also known as endocrinology)\nHaematology (also known as general haematology)\nOphthalmology*\nOtolaryngology* (also known as otorhinolaryngology, and as ENT surgery)\nPART 4\nSpecialties with no minimum training period\nAcute internal medicine\nAllergy\nAudio vestibular medicine (formerly known as audiological medicine)\nCommunity sexual and reproductive health\nDiagnostic neuropathology\nForensic histopathology\nForensic psychiatry\nIntensive care medicine\nMedical ophthalmology\nMedical psychotherapy (formerly known as psychotherapy)\nOld age psychiatry\nPaediatric cardiology\nPaediatric and perinatal pathology\nPalliative medicine\nPharmaceutical medicine\nPsychiatry of learning disability\nRehabilitation medicine\nSport and exercise medicine\n[Note: The specialties marked * above are those listed in Annex V, point 5.1.3 of the Directive which are common to all relevant European States. The remaining specialties are those in which the United Kingdom awards a qualification but which are peculiar to two or more relevant European States.]”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/473."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/344/article/2",
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  "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."
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