The Royal College specialty standards documents, referred to as the specialty suite, define the discipline. The audience for the specialty suite includes residents in training, program directors, teachers and exam committee members, as well as government and regulatory authorities.
The specialty suite for primary specialties and subspecialties consists of four discrete but inter-related documents:
Objectives of Training (OTR)
Specialty/Subspecialty Training Requirements (STR)
Final In-Training Evaluation Report (FITER)
Specific Standards of Accreditation (SSA)
The specialty suite for primary specialties and subspecialties that have implemented Competence by Design in their training programs consists of the following documents:
(Discipline) Competencies
Pathway to Competence
Training Experiences
ePortfolio
Standards of Accreditation
The AFCs also have a set of specialty standards documents, which define the AFC. The audience for the specialty suite includes AFC trainees, AFC directors, teachers and AFC assessors, as well as government and regulatory authorities.
The specialty suite for AFCs consists of three discrete but inter-related documents:
Competency Training Requirements (CTR)
Portfolio
AFC Standards of Accreditation (AFC-SA)