2020 Competition Ratios

Round 1

UK
Specialty Level
Applications Posts Ratio
ACCS Anaesthetics/Core Anaesthetics CT1/ST1 1479 569 2.60
Acute Care Common Stem - Emergency Medicine CT1/ST1 863 348 2.48
Broad Based Training CT1/ST1 109 13 8.38
Cardio-thoracic surgery CT1/ST1 129 13 9.92
Clinical Radiology CT1/ST1 1308 311 4.21
Community Sexual & Reproductive Health CT1/ST1 108 6 18.00
Core Psychiatry Training CT1/ST1 895 410 2.18
Core Surgical Training CT1/ST1 2322 605 3.84
General Practice CT1/ST1 5770 3836 1.50
Histopathology CT1/ST1 261 97 2.69
Internal Medicine Training CT1/ST1 2798 1610 1.74
Neurosurgery CT1/ST1 220 26 8.46
Obstetrics and Gynaecology CT1/ST1 672 256 2.63
Ophthalmology CT1/ST1 430 75 5.73
Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery CT1/ST1 32 10 3.20
Paediatrics CT1/ST1 712 461 1.54
Public Health Medicine CT1/ST1 933 77 12.12
Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery (Scotland Only) CT1/ST1 221 9 24.56
Cardio-thoracic surgery ST3 41 7 5.86
Neurosurgery ST3 22 1 22.00
Ophthalmology ST3 65 22 2.95
Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery ST3 16 23 0.70

Round 2

UK
Specialty Level
Applications Posts Ratio
Acute Internal Medicine ST3 510 94 5.43
Allergy ST3 11 3 3.67
Anaesthetics ST3 758 353 2.15
Audio vestibular Medicine ST3 9 6 1.50
Cardiology ST3 533 131 4.07
Clinical Genetics ST3 40 13 3.08
Clinical Neurophysiology ST3 31 10 3.10
Clinical Oncology ST3 170 49 3.47
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics ST3 12 14 0.86
Combined Infection Training ST3 206 54 3.81
Dermatology ST3 166 42 3.95
Diagnostic neuropathology ST3 8 4 2.00
Emergency Medicine ST3 141 47 3.00
Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus ST3 325 74 4.39
Gastroenterology ST3 373 79 4.72
General and Vascular Surgery ST3 574 123 4.67
Genito-urinary Medicine ST3 31 53 0.58
Geriatric Medicine ST3 392 202 1.94
Haematology ST3 195 73 2.67
Immunology ST3 20 12 1.67
Intensive Care Medicine ST3 430 289 1.49
Medical Oncology ST3 185 39 4.74
Medical Ophthalmology ST3 7 3 2.33
Metabolic Medicine ST3 23 12 1.92
Neurology ST3 207 50 4.14
Occupational Medicine ST3 35 12 2.92
Otolaryngology ST3 131 23 5.70
Paediatric and perinatal pathology ST3 7 9 0.78
Paediatric Surgery ST3 50 6 8.33
Paediatrics ST3 203 45 4.51
Palliative Medicine ST3 137 49 2.80
Plastic Surgery ST3 190 41 4.63
Rehabilitation Medicine ST3 36 27 1.33
Renal Medicine ST3 227 67 3.39
Respiratory Medicine ST3 407 74 5.50
Rheumatology ST3 199 33 6.03
Sport and Exercise Medicine ST3 32 11 2.91
Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery ST3 715 125 5.72
Urology ST3 146 64 2.28
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ST4 72 56 1.29
Emergency Medicine ST4 103 57 1.81
Forensic Psychiatry ST4 55 34 1.62
Forensic & Child & Adolescent Psychiatry ST4 4 3 1.33
General Psychiatry ST4 174 155 1.12
General Psychiatry & Forensic Psychiatry ST4 6 2 3.00
General and Medical Psychotherapy ST4 35 9 3.89
General Psychiatry and Old Age Psychiatry ST4 79 63 1.25
Medical Psychotherapy ST4 14 4 3.50
Old Age Psychiatry ST4 57 60 0.95
Paediatric Cardiology ST4 44 7 6.29
Paediatrics ST4 173 77 2.25
Psychiatry of Learning Disability ST4 22 45 0.49
Psychiatry of Learning Disability & Child &
Adolescent Psychiatry ST4 8 7 1.14