OST Curriculum
Ophthalmic Specialist Training Curriculum
The Curriculum is presented as a web-based document, for ease of use and of distribution. It is now available here: OST Curriculum.In August 2007 there was a major change in specialist training in the UK as the unified ("run-through") training grade begins (known in ophthalmology as "Ophthalmic Specialist Training", or OST). The Curriculum Sub-committee of the Education Committee at The Royal College of Ophthalmologists has developed a new, updated Curriculum for this programme. This work has been undertaken in close collaboration with the Training and Examinations Committees to ensure that learning and assessment are fully integrated and coordinated. To achieve consistency with best modern educational strategies it has been written as a Learning Outcomes document: it is based around 179 such outcomes.
Along with this there have been significant changes in the College examinations and other assessments have also changed to match more closely those used for the Foundation years.
Please note that these changes will only compulsorily
apply to those entering OST with a new Training Number from August 2007
onwards. Existing SpRs will normally continue on the old curriculum, although
they may be given a chance to swap at some stage.
The new Curriculum has been approved by the
Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board, or "PMETB".
Please visit this site, look around the Curriculum. The Curriculum is supported by an interactive e-portfolio system for OST trainees which greatly simplifies and improves the recording of assessments and tracking of overall
progress through the Curriculum.
If you have any queries or concerns please relay these to :
portfolio@rcophth.ac.uk
For more details of the changes in
specialist training, and in particular transitional arrangements, please use this link. For details of the Curriculum Review Protocol please download the 
protocol document.
Thank you
Mr David Cottrell
Chairman - Curriculum Sub-committee
The Curriculum is supported by an educational grant from Pfizer Ophthalmology and a donation made in memory of Mr Alex Tomkin.