Cardiology

Please note applications are now closed.

Cardiology introduction

Cardiology encompasses all aspects of the care of patients with heart disease. The specialty seeks to meet the need for comprehensive risk assessment and risk modification - involving medical treatment of symptoms and investigation of symptoms to define risk - and the need for treatment of symptoms and disease - by drugs, non-surgical intervention or surgery as appropriate. It also deals with Cardiac rehabilitation. Finally, the specialty is involved in the palliation of conditions which are not at the present time amenable to cure.

Paediatric Cardiologists deal with heart disease in babies and children up to adolescence, and collaborate with adult cardiologists in dealing with congenital heart disease in adolescent and grown up patients.

Levels recruiting to

• ST3

Application process

The Royal College of Physicians is coordinating the national process for recruiting trainees into Cardiology ST3 posts.

Please note, the application window closed on Friday 26 March 2010.

Additional information

Please note: this may be subject to change.

*  based on 2009 data
** based on estimated number of vacancies

Key dates and information

Applications open: 26 February 2010 
Applications close: 26 March 2010 
Interview dates: 5 May 2010
Interview venue: Lion Court Conference Centre

Posts commence from: October 2010

Additional information is also available on the 2010 Specialty Recruitment Timetable

Please note that London Deanery has a strict application policy and will not accept applications submitted after the submissions deadline.

Interview process

Document checking: Documents required for interview

Length of interview: 30 - 60 minutes - to be confirmed

Interview structure: Interviews will consist of an interview panel of three stations, at which criteria-based questions will be asked relating to audit, portfolio and clinical knowledge. One of the stations will include a clinical scenario.

Preference form: The preference form will be made available at the interviews.

Pay scales           

All trainees should be paid monthly at the rates set out in the national terms and conditions of service for hospital medical and dental staff and doctors in public health medicine and the community health service (England and Wales), “the TCS”, as amended from time to time. The payscales are reviewed annually. Part-time posts will be paid pro-rata.

Current rates of pay for junior doctors may be viewed on the NHS Employers website. 

Enquiries

During the recruitment episode please visit the London Deanery website regularly to access up-to-date information relating to your preferred specialty. You may also find the Frequently Asked Questions helpful in answering your query.

For any queries that cannot be answered by the methods above please contact: recruitmentenquiries@londondeanery.ac.uk. Please ensure you refer to the specialty you are enquiring about when emailing the team. Failure to include this information will result in confirmation emails and may delay the enquiry response time.

If you require an application form in large font please contact the recruitment enquiries team and you will be emailed an updated version.

For further national information please visit the Medical Specialty Training website.

Training programmes     

The training programme will be confirmed by the appropriate Deanery should applicants be successful at interview.