Medical Practitioners Act 2007

Medical practitioners to be registered in Specialist Division.

47.— (1) The Council shall, in accordance with the relevant criteria specified in rules made under section 11 , register in the Specialist Division the following medical practitioners:

(a) every medical practitioner who has, in the opinion of the Council, completed specialist training in a medical specialty recognised by the Council under section 89 (1);

(b) every medical practitioner who is granted evidence of satisfactory completion of specialist training by a body approved under section 89 (3)(a)(ii);

(c) every national of the State or a Member State who possesses a degree, diploma or other evidence of formal qualification in specialised medicine recognised by the Council and awarded by a competent body or authority designated for that purpose by a Member State, pursuant to Directive 2005/36/EC;

(d) every national of the State or a Member State who possesses a certificate of acquired rights in specialised medicine awarded by a competent body or authority designated for that purpose by a Member State, pursuant to Directive 2005/36/EC;

(e) every national of the State or a Member State who possesses a degree, diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualification in specialised medicine awarded in a third country and certified by a competent body or authority designated for that purpose by a Member State, pursuant to Directive 2005/36/EC; or

(f) any medical practitioner who satisfies the Council that the practitioner has completed a programme of training and has acquired sufficient experience in specialised medicine of a standard considered by the Council to be adequate for the purposes of registration in the Specialist Division.

(2) The Council may, until the 5th anniversary of the commencement of this subsection, grant registration in any particular list of the Specialist Division to any medical practitioner who, being able to be registered in the General Division, satisfies the Council that the practitioner has obtained sufficient training and experience such that the practitioner should be registered as a specialist in that list.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the Council shall, until the 5th anniversary of the commencement of that subsection, work with the bodies approved under section 89 (3)(a) to assist medical practitioners registered in the General Division to achieve the necessary standard for registration in the Specialist Division.