Area of Focused Competence Committee

An AFC committee functions as a stand-alone committee by virtue of the discipline having no relationship with a parent discipline or a relationship with more than one parent discipline.

Section A: The Specialties Unit

Section B: The AFC Committee

Section C: Policies relevant to AFC Committee membership/ participation

Section D: Discipline recognition, implementation and maintenance

Discipline recognition and review
Standard setting in medical education
1. The role of the Specialty Standards Review Committee (SSRC)
2. Specialty Standards Review Committee Terms of Reference
Accreditation of AFC training programs
1. General standards for accredited AFC training programs (previously known as the ‘C’ standards)
2. Find your discipline’s AFC-Standards of Accreditation (AFC-SA) – Information by discipline database
3. Find an accredited AFC training program
4. Volunteer to be a Royal College AFC program accreditation surveyor
5. Frequently Asked Questions: New System of AFC Accreditation
6. Accreditation training for AFC Committees (forthcoming February 2023)
AFC assessment – training route
AFC assessment – practice route
1. Application process, assessment fee and list of disciplines with open practice routes
The Diplomate designation, DRCPSC

Section E: Promoting AFC disciplines and the credential, DRCPSC

Specialties Unit

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