STCs
The Structure of Specialty Training:Specialty Training Committees (STCs)
Each Specialty School in KSS Deanery is supported by a Specialty Training Committee whose role it is to:
establish and organise the training programme in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex region support recruitment and selection to the programme arrange for ARCP / RITA requirements to be met deal with all trainee issues in the programme, including failing trainee/trainee in difficulty and remedial action report to KSS Deanery via the Postgraduate Dean deliver the priorities and objectives of KSS Deanery training aims be responsible for curriculum delivery, quality management and addressing the needs of trainees guide and liaise with DMEs and clinical tutors in the delivery of programmes conform to GMC /College and national speciality guidance where appropriate, liaise with feeder STCs for the specialty(ies)
The committee should meet a minimum of four times a year, and typically the committee membership consists of:
- Lead / Chair
- Specialty Training Programme Directors
- Clinical Tutors/representatives from each of the acute and/or psychiatric trusts where the specialty and its training programme is delivered
- KSS Deanery Representative
- Representative from related or feeder STC
- Trainee Representative
- Service Representative/Medical Education Manager
- Committee Secretary – Specialty Workforce Team
There are also some other structures which are designed to ensure coherent and continually improving specialty training. The remit of the KSS Deanery Higher Specialty Training Board is:
- To review progress in developing Higher Specialty Training (HST) in KSS Deanery, particularly programmes based around Brighton as an undergraduate and postgraduate University centre;
- to challenge progress and to provide support in overcoming difficulties;
- to ensure KSS Deanery, the trusts and the university are all involved in the development of HST with high quality academic input in KSS Deanery;
- To champion KSS Deanery-based HST.