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Royal College Areas of Focused Competence (AFC) Program and Subspecialty Examination Affiliate Program (SEAP) Update. Fellowship Education Advisory Committee September 29, 2015. 19 AFC Programs to Date in Varying Stages of Implementation by the Royal College. 1. Addiction Medicine
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Royal CollegeAreas of Focused Competence (AFC) ProgramandSubspecialty Examination Affiliate Program (SEAP)Update Fellowship Education Advisory Committee September 29, 2015
19 AFC Programs to Date in Varying Stages of Implementation by the Royal College 1. Addiction Medicine 2. Adolescent & Young Adult Oncology 3. Adult Cardiac Electrophysiology * 4. Adult Echocardiography * 5. Adult Hepatology * 6. Adult Interventional Cardiology *† 7. Adult Thrombosis Medicine 8. Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation 9. Aerospace Medicine * 10. Brachytherapy * 11. Child Maltreatment Paediatrics * 12. Clinician Educator * 13. Cytopathology * 14. Hyperbaric Medicine 15. Point of Care Ultrasonography 16. Solid Organ Transplantation * 17. Sport & Exercise Medicine 18. Transfusion Medicine *† 19. Trauma General Surgery * Discipline has been fully approved as an Area of Focused Competence (AFC) † Accredited AFC program at UofT 2/5
Background – SEAP • For Internationally trained physicians who: • Do not have Royal College certification in a primary specialty • Are enrolled as clinical fellows in programs whose content duplicates that of accredited Canadian subspecialty residency programs • On February 21, 2014 the Royal College Council approved a new examination program and Affiliate category for these international physicians who are not eligible for Royal College subspecialty certification 3/5
Royal College SEAP Pilot Program • Phase 1 focused on five subspecialties for Fall 2015: • Maternal-Fetal Medicine • Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine • Nephrology (Adult and Ped) • Neuroradiology • Pediatric Emergency Medicine • Three-phase SEAP implementation: 4/5
Expansion of SEAP for Fall 2016 1. Adolescent Medicine * 2. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry * 3. Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology* 4. Colorectal Surgery * 5. Critical Care Medicine (Adult) * 6. Critical Care Medicine (Ped) * 7. Developmental Pediatrics * 8. Endocrinology & Metabolism (Adult) * 9. Endocrinology & Metabolism (Ped) * 10. Forensic Pathology * 11. Forensic Psychiatry * 12. General Internal Medicine * 13. General Surgical Oncology * 14. Geriatric Medicine * 15. Geriatric Psychiatry * 16. Gynecologic Oncology * 17. Gynecologic Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility * 18. Infectious Diseases (Adult) * 19. Infectious Diseases (Ped) * 20. Maternal-Fetal Medicine 21. Medical Oncology * 22. Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 23. Nephrology (Adult) 24. Nephrology (Ped) 25. Neuroradiology 26. Occupational Medicine * 27. Pediatric Emergency Medicine 28. Pediatric Hematology/Oncology * 29. Pediatric Radiology * * New SEAP for 2016 5/5