How to apply for GP Specialty Training (GPST)

• Overview of General Practice Specialty Training (GPST)

  Successfully complete GPST to become an independent GP in the UK

• Recruitment timeline

  The key GPST recruitment dates

• Eligibility

  The criteria you need to meet when applying to GPST

• Applying

  How to apply to GPST

• Vacancies and preferencing

  What posts are available and how to rank them when you apply

• Multi-Specialty Recruitment Assessment (MSRA)

  If you're eligible, you'll be invited to take the MSRA, a computer-based assessment

• Offers, references, clearing and feedback

  How you'll receive offers and feedback

The MSRA is a computer-based assessment. It lets us assess whether you have the competences needed to become a GP and is based around clinical scenarios.

• Taking the MSRA

  When you'll be invited to sit the MSRA, how you book your test and more

• What's in the MSRA

  Find out about the structure and contents of the MSRA

• Academic Clinical Fellowships (ACFs)

  Incorporate academic training into your clinical training

• Competition ratios

  See how competitive posts in different parts of the country have been in previous years

• Fitness to Practise

  Make a Fitness to Practise declaration

• Global Health Fellowships (GHF)

  Opportunities to work overseas, information and recruitment

• Person specification

  The essential eligibility criteria you need to meet to apply for GP Specialty Training

• Recruitment data

  Recruitment figures, impact data and best practice research

• Recruitment events contacts

  Find out who to contact to hear about local recruitment events.

• Right to work in the UK

  Information on how to provide right to work documentation

• Special circumstances

  What to do if you have a requirement to train in a particular location

• Targeting Enhanced Recruitment Scheme (TERS)

  You may be entitled to a one-off payment if you commit to work in certain training locations

• Transferring recruitment scores

  Transfer your score to another recruitment round

• Widening Access to Specialty Training (WAST) scheme

  Designed to improve the skills and competences for admission to Specialty Training