Clinical Radiology ST1 Recruitment 2027 (Round 1)

*Please note: two pieces of evidence will be accepted for category A. A significant exposure means a period of at least 3 whole day equivalent time attached to a clinical radiology department. Examples: a taster week/observership placement; a student-selected component, elective, or similar part of a degree course; a radiology based clinical (not lab) research project involving presence in a department/working with a radiologist. Multiple exposures must be meaningfully different; for example, more than one of the above types. Two taster weeks in different settings would qualify for the highest descriptor and score A, but 2 taster weeks offering the same experience would not and would score B.

Any roles claimed above must have been for a minimum period of 6 months. Examples given: A - national role, for example, within specialist society, royal college, nationally held fellowship position, relevant to radiology. B - national non-radiology healthcare role, for example, within British Medical Association (BMA), royal college; local role, for example, committee member of undergraduate radiology society. C - national roles outside healthcare may include charity work, sports, creative arts; local role relevant to healthcare but not radiology, for example, Junior Doctors Forum or Mess committee, Foundation programme representative.

For the purposes of this section a formal teaching programme should have a duration of at least 3 months in total. A major contribution means a leading or organising role, such as a formal teaching fellowship or personally organising a formal, multi-session teaching course. National or international programmes should be open to all relevant learners in that discipline and would usually form part of a formal qualification, such as Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree, specialty diploma etc. Local or regional programmes would be organised at the level of, for example, a single hospital Trust, and could include Foundation Programme teaching or similar activities. Formal teaching outside medicine, for example, to school students or in the community can also be included. One-off, small group teaching would qualify in the third descriptor, as would evidence of solely delivering a single session to a larger local or national programme.

*Please note: two pieces of evidence will be accepted for category A. Leading an audit/Quality Improvement (QI) project would usually include a major role in conception, data collection, analysis, and presentation. If your evidence does not demonstrate this, please select a different descriptor appropriately. Demonstration of changed practice could be via a closed-loop second audit cycle showing better compliance to gold standard, or by improvement in a quality metric etc. Relating to radiology means that diagnostic imaging formed a major part of the project.

For this route, a poster scores the same as an oral presentation.

Oral and poster presentations score identically in this route: categories B, C and D each read 'oral or poster'. What changes the category is radiology relevance, first authorship, and national/international versus local/regional. Presentations should be proffered papers which have been through a process of peer-review, so invited talks do not count. Publications and presentations can relate to audit/QI activity. Intercalated and additional undergraduate degrees have been removed from scoring, but research involvement during one still scores at category D.