Frequently Asked Questions about Enrolment
If you started training on or after 01/08/07 in Core Medical Training, Acute Care Common Stem (Acute Medicine) or a medical specialty at the following grades you need to enrol with the JRCPTB:
If you started as a LAT, FTTA or SpR in a medical specialty before 01/08/07 these posts also need to be enrolled.
Section 2.12 of the "Gold Guide" states ‘all doctors in training should enrol/register with the relevant Royal College/Faculty so that:
- Progress in their training can be kept under review and supported where required
- Eligible trainees can be recommended to the GMC for consideration of award of a CCT at the end of specialty training.'
The "Gold Guide" contains all the information about how a specialty training programme should be organised, supported and delivered and covers all training in Specialty Registrar grades.
Failure to enrol your post with the JRCPTB may result in:
- Your post not counting towards your CCT and subsequently, delaying your completion of training
- The JRCPTB not being able to undertake any activities to support your training such as prospectively approving periods of out of programme and recommending trainees for accreditation
- Your access to the ePortfolio being cancelled
- Failing your ARCP as many panels ask for evidence of completion of enrolment
To make sure that we can adequately support your training, and you have evidence of enrolment for your ARCP, we recommend that you start the enrolment process within three months of starting your post. Late enrolment may mean that you cannot pay your JRCPTB fees in instalments and will have to pay them as a lump sum.
The JRCPTB's responsibilities are to:
- Provide and support the ePortfolio
- Write and update the specialty training curricula
- Support training
- Provide external assessors for ARCP and PYA panels.
- Work with deaneries and the GMC on Quality Managing training programmes
- Approve any variations to a training programme for an individual trainee such as research or overseas training. This approval is a required step if the post is to count towards a CCT.
- To provide adequate evidence to allow the GMC to agree to issue a CCT or CESR and add the trainee to the Specialist Register.
The trainee enrolment fee helps to off-set the cost of these activities.
The enrolment fees charged for any payment received from 1st April 2011 are:
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LAT, FTTA, FTSTA fee per annum |
Upfront fee for Core Training |
Upfront fee for Specialty Training |
Payment added to Collegiate Membership subscription |
For those who enrolled on or after 01/08/07 and have chosen to pay through Collegiate Membership you should make two payments to cover Core Training and five payments for Specialty Training. If you enrolled before 01/08/07 and are paying through Collegiate Membership you are not on a fixed number of payments scheme. You will be able to apply to move to the normal College membership rate on paying either the fee due at enrolment or the value of the fixed payment plan, which ever is greater.
During the Online Enrolment progress you are asked to choose how to you want to pay your enrolment fees, currently there are two choices:
You can either make a one-off upfront payment to JRCPTB OR pay your training fees in fixed instalments alongside a Collegiate Membership programme
Trainees enrolling at LAT, FTSTA, CT2 or CT3 should always pay the one off fee to prevent accidental overcharging.
The one off fee can be paid in the final stages of the online enrolment by debit or credit card (not American Express). If you choose to pay by Collegiate Membership your first instalment will be payable directly to JRCPTB and will be paid on submission of your enrolment form.
Paying the one off fee protects you against further increases in the JRCPTB enrolment feesand accidental overcharging. However, fees paid directly to JRCPTB are not tax deductible.
By choosing to pay through Collegiate Membership your JRCPTB fees will be spread over a number of payments. For Core Trainees two payments will be required and specialty trainees five payments. The first fee will always be paid directly to the JRCPTB at the time of enrolment and the membership department will be responsible collecting both their membership subscription fee and the JRCPTB enrolment fee for the subsequent payments. The member subscriptions are collected at a set time each and therefore, you may end up paying more than one instalment in a twelve month period. To complete your sign up to the membership payment schemes you will need to complete the subscription forms sent to you by your chosen College.
Membership subscription fees start at about £100 not including the PTB contributions. Please note that PTB portion of the fee is subject to change and may increase over the course of your payment plan.
Each of the three Colleges' offers their own membership packages, which include benefits such as:
- Free access to the Continuing Professional Development or Continuing Medical Education scheme, saving you approximately £100 per year
- Reduced admission rates to College conferences
- A College journal or newsletter
- Access to the College library
- The membership fee may be tax deductible
For more details please go to the Colleges membership pages for more information:
Since 2007 all enrolment applications are made through our online enrolment system. Please visit the online enrolment guidance page for further information. In summary, the process is:
- 1. Receive an invitation to enrol from JRCPTB
- 2. Sign in to the JRCPTB website here.
- 3. Complete the Online Enrolment System. Please read the advice in this FAQ document and our Applicants guide for advice.
- 4. Pay your enrolment fee via the Online Enrolment System.
- 5. Submit supporting documentation to the JRCPTB if requested.
- 6. Receive confirmation of enrolment application receipt.
When you are fully enrolled you will be sent an enrolment confirmation e-mail. For substantive specialty trainees you will also receive a letter confirming your accreditation type and date from the Certification and Trainees Services (CTS) team. Your records on the ePortfolio will also be updated to list your current post and you will be marked as enrolled with the JRCPTB.
Where can I get further advice about enrolment?
The enrolments team can be contacted on
enrolments@jrcptb.org.uk or we run a telephone based help service on 0203 0751 283 from 10.00am to 4.00pm Monday to Thursday and 10.00am to 2.00pm on Fridays.