SCREDS clinical lectureships

SCREDS lectureships provide an integrated training and career development pathway enabling clinicians to pursue concurrently or sequentially academic and clinical training within the NHS.

The Scottish Clinical Research Excellence Development Scheme (SCREDS)

The Scottish Clinical Research Excellence Development Scheme (SCREDS) provides an integrated training and career development pathway enabling clinicians to pursue concurrently or sequentially academic and clinical training within the NHS. It facilitates both the attainment of a senior clinical academic appointment and the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT). SCREDS Clinical Lecturer posts are registrar grade posts which offer academic training opportunities in addition to clinical training. The usual time allocation is 80% clinical training and 20% research training over the full period of the post.

During the clinical lectureship, the research programme may be either focused on preparation for competitive entry to out-of-programme research (i.e. pre MD or PhD), or focussed on developing an area of research identified during a period of out of programme research.

SCREDS Clinical Lectureships

These appointments are made by the University with the support of the relevant postgraduate dean. They provide ‘in-programme’ clinical specialty training as well as focussing on preparation for competitive entry to phase (ii). In addition, they enable completion of clinical training where phase (ii) is substantially concluded. They are funded either directly by the University or by NHS Education for Scotland (NES). Applications for a Clinical Lecturer in any specialty or research area (including general practice) will be handled as a separate process outwith the national recruitment and selection process for admission to specialty training in Scotland. In Scotland there is no fixed timetable for recruitment to such appointments.

The appointments are made jointly with the NHS locally and the relevant Scottish university and deanery. They are supported by university contracts.

Who is eligible for an appointment within SCREDS?

Doctors are eligible for appointment to a SCREDS post if they:

• are on the GMC's Specialist or General Practitioner Registers;
• hold a National Training Number;
• do not hold a National Training Number but have been appointed to a decoupled Core Training Programme recognised by GMC and hold an equivalent Core Training Number;
• GPs on Clinical doctoral Training programmes within 3 years of completing training.

From August this year we will be allocated 1 or 2 GP SCREDs posts annually as part of the expansion of GP training.