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Scottish Medical Training

Find out about 2025/2026 recruitment - Specialty, Foundation & General Practice.

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Hospital specialty

Hospital specialty

Find all the information you need to apply for a place in a Hospital Specialty Training Programme. Search over 50 recognised specialties and find details of the specialty programmes in each area.

GP specialty

GP specialty

Scotland is a great place to train to be a GP with hundreds of training posts available across the country from its capital Edinburgh to the Isle of Shetland. We have it all!

Fioundation

Foundation

Two year Foundation Programmes are the first stage of postgraduate medical training in the UK following graduation from medical school.

Training in Scotland

Information on training in Scotland.

Scotland flags getting waved

Medical careers in Scotland

Thinking about becoming a doctor? Already a medical student? Coming to the end of your training? There are lots of options for you to consider, and Scotland can offer a wide choice of careers, from rural GP to tertiary specialist.

Recruitment

Recruitment

Recruitment information for specialty, foundation and general practice.

Living in Scotland

Scotland is a modern, diverse and beautiful country with a multicultural society and world class education and healthcare. Scotland’s relatively high standard of living is another major attraction to career professionals, with property prices more affordable than other parts of the UK.

A medical history timeline

Scotland has a long illustrious history of medical excellence. Find our more in our medical history timeline.

UK's First Medical School

1495

UK's First Medical School

Although medical training had taken place in St Bartholemews and in Oxford, ...

First Medical Royal College

1505

First Medical Royal College

In the late 1400s the roles of surgeons and barbers, both requiring sharp...

Chain of Evacuation in War

1812-14

Chain of Evacuation in War

Sir James McGrigor, Army Surgeon, instituted the 'chain of evacuation' st...

Chloroform in Surgery

1847

Chloroform in Surgery

Sir James Young Simpson introduced choloroform in anaesthesia in childbir...