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. 2008 Oct 1;101(10):489–492. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2008.070284

Table 2.

Hypothetical success rate for candidates with right of UK/EU residency if immigration ruling persists in barring those without UK/EU residency, based on posts available in 2005

Specialty Hypothetical success rate
Plastic Surgery 17%
Urology 18%
ENT Surgery 19%
Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery 23%
General Surgery 36%
Dermatology 44%
Infectious Diseases 48%
Public Health Medicine 48%
General & Old Age Psychiatry 49%
Clinical Neurophysiology 50%
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 50%
Obstetrics & Gynaecology 51%
Cardiology 52%
Opthalmology 55%
Clinical Genetics 67%
Occupational Medicine 67%
Medical Oncology 67%
Forensic Psychiatry 69%
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 70%
Paediatric Cardiology 71%
Gastroenterology 82%
Nuclear Medicine 83%
Nephrology 86%
Neurology 90%
Respiratory Medicine >95%
Clinical Pharmacology >95%
Palliative Medicine >95%
Histopathology >95%
Acute & General Medicine >95%
A&E >95%
Radiology >95%
Intensive Care Medicine >95%
Geriatric Medicine >95%
Clinical Oncology >95%
Paediatrics >95%
Anaesthetics >95%
Genito-Urinary Medicine >95%
Endocrinology & Diabetes >95%
Medical Microbiology >95%