ST1 Clinical Radiology application form

A significant exposure means a period of at least 3 whole day equivalent time attached to a clinical radiology department. For example:

• A taster week/observership placement.
• A student-selected component, elective, or similar part of a degree course.
• A radiology based clinical (not lab) research project involving presence in a department/working with a radiologist.

Multiple exposures must be meaningfully different; for example, more than one of the above types. Two taster weeks in different settings would qualify for the highest descriptor and score A, but two taster weeksn offering the same experience would not and would score B.

Evidence for this section could include:

• Letter confirming placement from clinical supervisor/education lead.
• Official university documents confirming radiology-based placement/component.
• Details of a radiology-based project with evidence of your involvement from your supervising consultant.
• Course/conference certificate.

Any roles claimed above must have been for a minimum period of 6 months. For UK applicants, National refers to activity within England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or the UK as a whole; Local would mean at the level of a hospital single Trust, University etc. Roles outside healthcare include voluntary activity, arts, and other sciences, but not paid employment.

Appropriate evidence would include confirmation of election/appointment, evidence of attendance at committee meetings, letters from chair or senior figure within relevant organization. Evidence should specify the applicant by name, the role, and major responsibilities thereof.

For the purposes of this section a formal teaching programme should have a duration of at least 3 months in total.

A major contribution means a leading or organising role, such as a formal teaching fellowship or personally organising a formal, multi-session teaching course. National or international programmes should be open to all relevant learners in that discipline and would usually form part of a formal qualification e.g. MBBS degree, speciality diploma, etc.

Local or regional programmes would be organised at the level of, for example, a single hospital Trust, and could include Foundation Programme teaching or similar activities. Formal teaching outside medicine, for example, to school students or in the community can also be included.

One-off, small group teaching would qualify in the 3rd descriptor, as would evidence of solely delivering a single session to a larger local or national programme.

Appropriate evidence would include the following:

• Official documentation indicating your role as an organiser or deliverer of teaching.
• Contemporaneous feedback collated or countersigned by a 3rd party.

Leading an audit/quality improvement (QI) project would usually include a major role in conception, data collection, analysis, and presentation. If your evidence does not demonstrate this, please select a different descriptor appropriately.

An audit and re-audit to complete audit cycle will be considered as two separate audits (e.g. if related to radiology, would be category A)

Evidence required:

• A letter from supervising consultant or QI/audit project stating level of involvement to satisfy the requirements described in the table above. The letter must be signed (can be digital signature to reproduce a physical signature) and include:
  • consultant name and GMC number (or corresponding national medical registration equivalent)
  • date
  • the body of the letter should cite the date of completion of the work and/or the date of presentation. Presentation at a conference/national or international meeting could be evidenced with a CPD certificate to that effect

and

• Copy of audit project presentation outlining scope and impact (findings and improvements achieved) of project or, a summary of the project detailing scope and impact of the project

Demonstration of changed practice could be via a closed-loop second audit cycle showing better compliance to gold standard, or by improvement in a quality metric, etc.

Relating to radiology means that diagnostic imaging formed a major part of the project

*consortium authorship – Papers with >12 authors will be considered consortium papers

Please note, as mentioned above, intercalated and additional undergraduate degrees have been removed from scoring according to national specialty recruitment policy. (Points scored in this section are only for postgraduate achievements).

All activity in this section should be scientific relating to radiology meaning the project should involve diagnostic imaging. This does not preclude papers in other fields e.g. surgery, oncology, etc, if they have a significant imaging focus. Publications and presentations can relate to audit/QI activity.

Presentations should be proffered papers which have been through a process of peer-review (i.e. not invited oral or poster presentations) and:

Copy of letter of acceptance of oral/poster presentation or copy of event programme citing presentation must include:

• The name of presenter or first author
• The institution convening the meeting
• The date of the meeting/presentation

Evidence could include:

• Degree certificate
• Your Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier (ORCID) summary
• Citation including DOI/indexing service identifier (e.g. PMID)
• Conference catalogue