NIMDTA

Also referred to as "The Northern Ireland Deanery", NIMDTA was established in 2004 by the Department of Health to:

• Organise, accredit and review training for doctors and dentists
• Monitor quality standards in education
• Operate the appointments process for selection to Specialist Training Registrar (StR) in medicine and dentistry
• Manage the Vocational Training scheme for General Practitioners
• Oversee the Foundation Training Scheme for the first 2 years after graduation
• Provide career advise and counselling support for those in training
• Facilitate specialist training requirements such as Less than Full-time Training, overseas training and research opportunities
• Administer regional budgets

NIMDTA has a Postgraduate Dean who manages a structure comprising a Dental Dean, Associate Deans, an Administrative Director, a Director of GP Education, a Finance Manager and a Training and HR Manager.

NIMDTA is supervised by a Board which consists of medical and lay members.

Specialist Schools within NIMDTA

The training structure consists of 10 Specialty Schools:

• Anaesthetics
• Emergency Medicine
• Medicine
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Paediatrics and Child Health
• Psychiatry
• Radiology
• Surgery
• Pathology
• General Practice

There are also advisers for Intensive Care Medicine, Occupational Medicine and Public Health Medicine.
Each school has a head and Deputy Head who are responsible to the Dean for advice on recruitment, assessment, quality standards, postings and implementation of MMC.

The GMC

The General Medical Council is the overall medical regulatory body for the medical profession in the United Kingdom and is respnsible for registration, maintenance of good medical practice standards and fitness to practice.  In 2010 the GMC merged with the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB)  and assumed responsibility for postgraduate medical educational also.