Overview of Plastic Surgery

Plastic Surgery

An overview of Plastic Surgery Training ST3.

Applies to: England, Scotland and Wales. See guidance for Northern Ireland.

Important: Accuracy

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained on this page. The information presented is accurate at the time of publication.

These pages aim to provide you with information regarding all aspects of the nationally coordinated Plastic Surgery ST3 recruitment in England, Scotland, and Wales. General information regarding recruitment to all specialty training posts is available on the Medical Specialty Recruitment pages.

Non-urgent advice: Communication from Oriel

Please note that all communication with applicants will be via Oriel, or via the contact details you provide as part of your Oriel application. You must ensure that your contact details are correct and kept up to date throughout the recruitment process.

2024 recruitment

Details of the 2024 recruitment process are provided throughout these pages in conjunction with central guidance issued by the National Recruitment Team that applies across specialties. You can find the central guidance on the Medical Specialty Recruitment pages.

You must read this pages and the guidance on the Medical Specialty Recruitment pages before beginning your application.

Plastic Surgery recruitment will involve the following stages (which are outlined in more detail in these pages).

  1. As part of the Oriel application form you will be asked to provide a self-assessment score depending on your personal achievements.
  2. You will then be invited to upload evidence of their achievements to the Evidence Upload Portal.
  3. The evidence you upload will be reviewed by a team of Plastic Surgery consultants. They will verify that you have claimed the correct number of points and can change your score if they feel your evidence merits a different score from your self-assessment. This produces your verified evidence score.
  4. After the evidence verification process is complete, the highest scoring applicants will be invited to attend a remote interview.
  5. A combination of your verified evidence score and scores at interview will be used to determine your final total score and ranking.

Page last reviewed: 3 November 2023
Next review due: 3 November 2024