Medical Virology

This section of the website is currently for medical virology trainees who start specialty training from August 2021.

Medical Virology Curriculum 2021

The new 2021 curricula will be assessed by High Level Outcomes, which are included in the form of Capabilities in Practice (CiPs), CiPs describe the professional tasks or work within the scope of postgraduate pathology training; they are based on the format of entrustable professional activities, which are a method of using the professional judgement of appropriately trained assessors as a key aspect of the validity of assessment and a defensible way of forming global judgements of professional performance.

The 2021 Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine curricula can be found on the JRCPTB website.

Assessment Strategy

The Royal College of Pathologists' assessment strategy identifies the broad approach and purpose of our programme of assessment and describes the approach for the medical pathology specialties regulated by the General Medical Council.

ARCP Decision Aid

The decision aids provide guidance on the requirements to be achieved for a satisfactory ARCP outcome at the end of each training year.

Rough Guide to Implementation - Infection Specialties curricula

The following guide has been developed to support trainees, educational supervisors and training programme directors. It should be used with the 2021 curriculum.

Transitional Arrangements Webinar

All current trainees not starting their specialty training in August/September 2021 will remain on their current curriculum until after the spring 2022 ARCPs. Existing trainees will be transferred to the new curriculum in the spring after their ARCPs.

Please see below the webinar video, slides and FAQs from the Transitional Arrangement Webinar held on 26 May 2022.

Transitional Arrangement FAQs