Deanery Policies

Less Than Full Time Training (LTFT)

Yorkshire and the Humber Postgraduate Deanery adopts a unified approach to all trainees wishing to train less than full-time.  The Deanery offers support to all trainees who, for well founded personal reasons, are unable to complete their training programme on a full-time basis.  The Policy (on the right) is for trainees and trainers.

Eligibility for Less than Full-time Training

Category 1

Those doctors in training with:

• disability
• ill health
• responsibility for caring for children (men and women)
• responsibility for caring for ill/disabled partner, relative or other dependant

Category 2

Those doctors in training with:

• unique opportunities for their own person/professional development, e.g. training for national/international sporting events
• religious commitment - involving training for a particular role which requires a specific time commitment
• non-medical professional development such as management courses, law courses, fine arts courses, etc.

(Source: The Gold Guide, Fourth Edition, 2010)

The GMC’s Postgraduate Board statement to reinstate a minimum time requirement of 50% for doctors in specialty training who work on a less than full-time basis - 18th October 2011

Statement

Less than full-time training - Additional poisiton statement from the GMC on academic training in a less than full-time training setting - 1st February 2012

Statement

The Yorkshire and the Humber Postgraduate Deanery’s aim is to accommodate any trainee who has well founded reasons for wishing to train less than full-time.

The LTFT Policy for Yorkshire and the Humber Postgraduate Deanery is based upon guidance from the Gold Guide Sections 6.47 to 6.57 http://www.mmc.nhs.uk/default.aspx?page=468