Training by specialty

The College produces curricula and guidance for a range of medical, clinical scientist and veterinary pathology specialties. 

The 2021 medical curricula must meet the standards for curricula and assessment systems, set by the General Medical Council, before they are published. 

Higher Specialist Scientific Training (HSST) curricula must be approved by the Education and Training Scrutiny Group of Health Education England (HEE) before they are published. Clinical scientist specialties are identified by ‘HSST’ appearing next to the relevant specialty. 

Person in gloves pipetting in a toxicology laboratory

Analytical toxicology HSST

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Chemical pathology

Biochemistry clinical scientist in lab

Clinical biochemistry HSST

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Clinical immunology HSST

Neuropathologist pointing at a neuropathology slide on a computer

Diagnostic neuropathology

A blurred image of an autopsy room

Forensic histopathology

Multicolour image of depicting genome sequencing

Genetics HSST

Slide with blood droplet under microscope

Haematology HSST

Loading blood samples into a machine

Histocompatibility and immunogenetics HSST

Histopathology slide under microscope

Histopathology

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing in petri dish

Medical microbiology

Sample tubes being handled in a virology laboratory

Medical virology

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Microbiology HSST

Person looking at an slide image on a screen in a molecular pathology dark room

Molecular pathology HSST

Person holding a baby's foot

Paediatric and perinatal pathology

Egg fertilisation at a reproductive medicine clinic

Reproductive science HSST

Image showing a blood bag during a transfusion

Transfusion science HSST

Veterinary cytology feline urine with pyelonephritis

Veterinary clinical pathology

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Veterinary microbiology

Image of a veterinary pathology slide on a screen and a microscope in a lab

Veterinary pathology

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Virology HSST