Entry Requirements
To enrol on one of our Professional Competence Specialist Division Schemes, you must hold Irish Medical Council registration in a corresponding specialty.
More than one specialty?
If you have more than one registered specialty, you only need to enrol on one Professional Competence Scheme. Choose the Scheme that is most appropriate to your current practice
Registered in a different specialty?
If your registered specialty is not listed among our Specialist Division schemes, and you wish to enrol on a scheme that aligns with your current working practice, please contact the Professional Competence team at professionalcompetence@rcpi.ie so that we can help you join the appropriate scheme
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Faculty of Occupational Medicine: you must be a registered specialist in Occupational Medicine.
Faculty of Paediatrics: you must be a registered specialist in Paediatrics or Paediatric Cardiology.
Faculty of Pathology: you must be a registered specialist in one of the following:
Faculty of Public Health Medicine: you must be a registered specialist in Public Health Medicine.
Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: you must be a registered specialist in Obstetrics & Gynaecology.
Institute of Medicine: you must be a registered specialist in one of the following:
- Cardiology
- Clinical Genetics
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus
- Gastroenterology
- General (Internal) Medicine
- Genitourinary Medicine
- Geriatric Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Medical Oncology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Palliative Medicine
- Pharmaceutical Medicine
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Respiratory Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Enrol on the Institute of Medicine Specialist Division Professional Competence Scheme