Table 1.
Categorisation of survey respondents' preferred specialty training programmes and available training places in 2016
| Places made available by HEE for 2016* |
1st preference for application (our survey) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Training programme | Categorisation | n | Per cent | n | Per cent |
| ACCS Emergency Medicine | Acute hospital specialties | 298 | 5 | 48 | 7 |
| Anaesthetics and ACCS Anaesthetics | 459 | 8 | 90 | 12 | |
| Core Medical Training and ACCS Acute Medicine | 1036 | 18 | 162 | 22 | |
| Core Surgical Training | 506 | 9 | 62 | 8 | |
| Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 209 | 4 | 32 | 4 | |
| Paediatrics and Child Health | 316 | 5 | 61 | 8 | |
| Total | 2824 | 49 | 455 | 62 | |
| Cardiothoracic Surgery | Other hospital specialties | 5 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.4 |
| Clinical Radiology | 205 | 4 | 26 | 4 | |
| Histopathology | 65 | 1 | 14 | 2 | |
| Neurosurgery | 22 | 0.4 | 5 | 1 | |
| Ophthalmology | 60 | 1 | 11 | 1 | |
| Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | 3 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psychiatry | 280 | 5 | 37 | 5 | |
| 640 | 11 | 97 | 13 | ||
| Community Sexual and Reproductive Health | Community-based specialties | 5 | 0.1 | 8 | 1 |
| General Practice | 2296 | 39 | 167 | 23 | |
| Public Health | 56 | 1 | 8 | 1 | |
| Total | 2357 | 40 | 183 | 25 | |
| Total | 5821 | 735 | |||
*27ACCS, acute core common stem programmes; initial multicompetency training prior to specialisation.