Trainee Specialist to General Division

General Registration is the only form of registration available to medical practitioners who do not practise in individually numbered, identifiable training posts and have not completed recognised specialist medical training. Registrants may practise independently without supervision but may not falsely represent themselves as holding specialist registration. (See section 46 of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007.)

Registration in the General Division is automatic when your current training post expires, unless you are registered in another recognised training post.  Many doctors move regularly between the General & Trainee Specialist Division.  This can happen when there is a delay in the Council receiving information about their new training post and they are registered in the General Division in the interim.  The Council is obliged once it receives information about their new post to register them in the Trainee Specialist Division again.

A medical practitioner who is registered in the Trainee Specialist Division but who ceases to practise in their recognised training post, must inform the Medical Council of this fact within 14 days. This can be done by sending in a completed TSR2 form.