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Internal Medicine Training (IMT) is a gateway into medical speciality training in the United Kingdom. Successful completion of IMT would enable access into multiple different medical specialties depending on an individual’s preference. A full list of medical specialties* that IMT would enable access to, is listed below.
Application to IMTs is generally open to Foundation Y2 doctors (who are expecting to complete foundation programme before the start date of IMT training), doctors who have completed foundation training in the last 3 and a half years and may currently doing a non-training grade job/locum work/on time out from medicine, current speciality trainee (in a different specialty) and international medical graduates who have full registration with the GMC and can provide a Certificate of Readiness to Enter Specialty Training (CREST) form.
The applications will open at 10 am on Wednesday 23rd October 2024 and will close at 4 pm on Thursday 21st November 2024.
Longlisting will be confirmed by 17th December and shortlisting by 18th December.
Invitation to interview will be 19th December.
Interviews will be held between 13th January-14th February 2025.
The application process is online via Oriel.
All communication is made via email (make sure to check your junk email regularly once application submitted.)
All interviews will be held online.
In 2023, the competition ratio for an IMT post (in round 1) was 2:64.
In 2022, the competition ratio for an IMT post (in round 1) was 2.45.
Group 1 specialities (require 3 years of IMT training/dual CCT):
Acute Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Endocrinology & Diabetes Mellitus, Gastroenterology, Genitourinary Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Infectious Diseases (except when dual with Medical Microbiology or Virology), Neurology, Palliative Medicine, Renal Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, Rheumatology and Tropical Medicine (except when dual with Medical Microbiology or Virology).
Group 2 specialities (require 2 years if IMT training/single CCT.)
Allergy, Audiovestibular Medicine, Aviation & Space Medicine, Clinical Genetics, Clinical Neurophysiology, Dermatology, Haematology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases (when dual with Medical Microbiology or Virology), Medical Oncology, Medical Ophthalmology, Nuclear Medicine, Paediatric Cardiology, Pharmaceutical Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine, Sport and Exercise Medicine, Tropical Medicine (when dual with Medical Microbiology or Virology).
Chemical Pathology, Clinical Oncology, Medical Microbiology, Medical Virology and Occupational Medicine will also recruit trainees who have completed the first two years of IMT. Trainees will also be able to apply for Intensive Care Medicine single CCT training after two years of IMT.