From Volume 14, Issue 3, July 2021 | Pages 119-122
A run-through training pilot has been conducted in orthodontics during which trainees completed 2 years of higher training in the same units in which the first 3 years of specialist training was conducted. This article outlines a trainee and trainer's experience of run-through training in orthodontics.
The General Medical Council (GMC) defines a run-through training pathway as one that guarantees that doctors, after a single competitive selection process and satisfactory progress, will receive training covering the whole specialty curriculum.1 This is opposed to uncoupled training pathways that require a second stage of competitive recruitment following the first 2 or 3 years of core training for an individual to progress to higher specialty training. Within the surgical specialties, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, and oral and maxillofacial surgery have GMC-approved run-through training pathways. In August 2018, a run-through training pilot in general surgery in more than 21 trusts started. This was followed by urology and vascular surgery in 2019, and in 2020 trauma and the orthopaedic surgery cohort joined the scheme.2
The Dental Gold Guide states that there are run-through training posts of 5 years (three core training + two higher training years) in orthodontics and paediatric dentistry.3 Our specialty has been leading the way in piloting run-through training for dental specialties. In 2016, I was invited to participate in a pilot of run-through training. The following will outline a trainee and trainer's experience of the positive aspects and potential difficulties of run-through training in orthodontics.
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