Trainees are eligible to apply for a consultant post provided that they are in possession of the FRCPath Part 2 and the expected date of award of their Certificate of Completion of Training (or recognised equivalent, if outside the UK) falls no more than six months after the date of interview for the consultant post.
There will be some other instances (for example, when considering applicants trained outside the UK) where an Advisory Appointment Committee may choose to interview a candidate prior to Specialist Register entry although, in these circumstances, it will wish to be satisfied that subsequent Specialist Register entry is likely.
It should be noted that a CESR application normally takes over six months from start to finish and there are no guarantees about the final outcome.
Doctors must be listed on the Specialist Register in order to take up any consultant appointment they may have been offered.