What are all of the medical specialties you can train for in the army post foundation year 2 as a medical officer?
Specifically specialties in surgery, is general surgery the only specialty you can train in?
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- Author: Jack P.
- Category: Eligibility advice, Medical
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TCTori C. Regimental Medical Officer
Hi Jack,
Post FY2 you do your 3 years as a General duties medical officer before applying for specialty training.
The specialty jobs vary from year to year depending on what the central staffing team think we need.
Usually the options include - GP, EM, Anaesthetics, Public health, psychiatry, general medicine (with some options to specialise in things like infectious disease, micro, haematology, rheumatology) and core surgical training (with options to specialise in general surgery, plastic surgery, trauma and ortho).
There will occasionally be other options as well in some of the more niche specialties that only need one trainee every few years.
I hope that helps -
JPJack P. Candidate
Thank you for the reply that’s really helpful!
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