We recognise that trainees may wish to take a period of time Out of Programme (OOP), whilst retaining a National Training Number (NTN), for one of a number of reasons. These can be categorised as follows:

• Time out of programme for approved clinical training in a post which generally contributes towards trainees’ CCT (Out of Programme Training – OOPT)
• Time out of programme for clinical experience that is outside of the curriculum, in a post which will not count towards a trainee’s CCT (Out of Programme Experience – OOPE)
• Time out of programme for research, of which time may count towards CCT with prospective approval from GMC (Out Of Programme Research – OOPR)
• Time out of programme mainly for personal reasons e.g. illness, family caring.  This will not count towards a trainee’s CCT (Out of Programme Career Break – OOPC)

Full details of out of programme guidance can be found in sections 6.66 to 6.88 (p46-51) of the Gold Guide 2010. These can be downloaded from the MMC website.

There are currently 111 trainees from the London Deanery who are taking part in some sort of training outside of their regular run through program.