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Area of Focused Competence Subcommittee
An AFC subcommittee functions as a ‘subcommittee’ by virtue of the discipline having a relationship with only one parent discipline. As such, it is a subcommittee of the parent discipline’s specialty committee.
Section A: The Specialties Unit
Section B: The AFC Subcommittee
Section C: Policies relevant to AFC Committee membership/ participation
Section D: Discipline recognition, implementation and maintenance
- Discipline recognition and review
- Committee on Specialties (COS)
- Criteria for categories of discipline recognition
- Royal College recognition of new disciplines – overview of application process
- Applying for recognition of an AFC discipline
- Policy and Procedure: Discipline Recognition Applications
- Applications and national consultations: Active
- Specialty Committee Roles and Responsibilities in Reviewing Applications for the Recognition of New Disciplines
- Discipline Review Policy
- Standard setting in medical education
- Accreditation of AFC training programs
- General standards for accredited AFC training programs (previously known as the ‘C’ standards)
- Find your discipline’s AFC-Standards of Accreditation (AFC-SA) – Information by discipline database
- Find an accredited AFC training program
- Volunteer to be a Royal College AFC program accreditation surveyor
- Frequently Asked Questions: New System of AFC Accreditation
- Accreditation training for AFC Committees (forthcoming February 2023)
- AFC assessment – training route
- Application process and assessment fee
- Frequently Asked Questions: Assessment of trainees by Accredited AFC Programs
- Step-by-Step Guide for Trainees and AFC Directors: Assessment by Accredited AFC Programs
- Royal College Policy on AFC Assessment and Credentialing – In-Training Route
- Guidance on the use of ITERs in the Competency Portfolio and accredited AFC training programs
- Royal College Policy on the application of new versions of AFC Competency Portfolios
- AFC assessment – practice route
- The Diplomate designation, DRCPSC
Section E: Promoting AFC disciplines and the credential, DRCPSC
Specialties Unit
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