How to get a Specialty Training post

• Provides doctors with a head-start to getting a specialty training post
• Written by a successful specialty training applicant, with contributions from many specialty experts
• Full of practical, applicable advice, including a whole chapter with sections devoted to each specialty
• Includes sample interview questions and answers

Readership: Recently qualified junior doctors applying to training posts (Foundation Year and Specialty Trainees years 1 to 3)

Danny C. G. Lim, Cardiology Specialty Trainee, Nothern Deanery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK

Danny Lim is currently a Cardiology Specialty Trainee with the Nothern Deanery, based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK.

1: Introduction: the "secret" to getting into specialty training
2: Career development: the secret of success
3: Being prepared
4: The application form
5: Interview and assessment stations: how to excel
6: Interview: practice questions and answers
7: The specialties
8: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again