Get involved
Teach, mentor, and help build a specialty.
Everyone joins as a member, and membership is free. For specialists who want to extend their involvement, there are paid teaching opportunities in the training programme being built in India. They are remote, on site or hybrid, with flexible hours, and you decide how much you take on.
What involvement looks like
Four positions
Each is paid. Each can be held alongside your own practice. A current programme director speaks with every applicant.
01
Programme Director
You lead or co-lead a programme, set the standard it trains to, and anchor a training site or pathway.
For
Established specialists who already lead or run training.
Where
Remote, with periods on site.
02
Clinical Instructor
You teach and supervise on the hospital floor, share the teaching load, and mentor a small group of trainees.
For
CertAVP holders, RCVS-recognised practitioners, or the equivalent.
Where
On site, matched to a training site and specialty.
03
Faculty
You deliver all or part of the didactic training, and may also take part in practical teaching.
For
Specialists who want to teach without being on site.
Where
Mostly remote and online.
04
Board Member
You help establish boards and training posts, and shape how the society is governed.
For
Those who have built residency programmes or academic pathways before.
Where
Remote. The board reviews each application.
Built in public
What is being built, and where it stands
A hospital-based specialty training programme in India. The principles, the progress and the roles still to fill are published here. Methodology, curriculum detail and assessment tools are shared with programme faculty only.
Current status
Principles agreed and published.
First training site set up at Top Dog Hospital.
Recruiting Programme Directors and Clinical Instructors.
Building next
First trainee intake.
Board set-up for the first specialty.
Shared teaching rota across sites.
Principles
What the programme holds to
01
Competency-based training
Trainees progress by showing they can do the work, assessed against defined competencies.
02
Driven by the hospital standard of care
Training follows the care each hospital delivers every day. Cases on the floor shape what trainees learn.
03
One continuous pathway
One route runs from foundation training through to specialty, each stage leading to the next.
04
Teaching shared between specialists
Several specialists teach each group. Instructors and directors split the load.
05
Boards and training posts established
Boards and posts are being set up so that specialists can train and qualify in India.
06
Evidence-based education
Teaching material is built from published evidence and reviewed by faculty.
07
Structured training and assessment
Structured rotations and assessment give trainees a clear route into a specialty.
08
Hospital-based
Trainees learn inside working hospitals, taught by the specialists who work there.
Tell us how you would like to be involved
Apply for membership and say which position interests you. Your specialty and credentials are all we ask for. A programme director will be in touch within two weeks; where nothing fits yet, we keep your name and write when it does.
Programme directors have joined across anaesthesia, cardiology, emergency and critical care, internal medicine, neurology, orthopaedic surgery, radiology and soft tissue surgery.