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When you choose Wales for your medical career you choose superb facilities and well organised Foundation, Speciality or GP Training. You choose a diverse country that will give you a great life style as you build your future career.

Wales offers something for everyone, from cosmopolitan towns and cities to stunning coastal locations. With affordable housing and welcoming communities it is an idea place to achieve a worklife balance. It even has its own language although it is not necessary to learn it to pursue training, employment or to live here.

Wales is covered by a single Deanery which puts high quality training at the heart of medical careers, from the foundation doctor's first job, through to speciality training on to consultant or general practitioner. Trainees can indicate regional preferences and are supported by speciality training schools, regional training committees and a network of well-equipped postgraduate education centres within teaching hospitals. Higher specialist training includes access to a fully funded generic curriculum covering topics such as teaching, ethics, law and leadership.

Make yours the smart choice; choose Wales to live, train and work.

MMC Recruitment timetables for 2012

Recruitment to the Wales Clinical Academic Track programme opens on 21st October and closes on 18th November 2011.

The first and main recruitment round for Specialty Training takes place between November 2011 and March 2012. For most specialties applications open towards the end of November. Please see our website for dates.

Recruitment to General Practice Specialty Training opens at 9am on 14th November and closes at noon on 9th December 2011. Further information about GP Recruitment is available at www.gprecruitment.org.uk

Information regarding how and when to apply is signposted from our website www.walesthesmartchoice.co.uk

Trusts in our domain

North Wales

• Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board includes Glan Clwyd Hospital (Rhyl), Wrexham Maelor Hospital (Wrexham) and Ysbyty Gwynedd (Bangor)

Mid and South West Wales

Hywel Dda Health Board includes:

• Bronglais General Hospital (Aberystwyth)
• Prince Philip Hospital (Llanelli)
• West Wales General Hospital (Carmarthen)
• Withybush Hospital (Haverfordwest)

Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board includes:

• Morriston Hospital (Swansea)
• Singleton Hospital (Swansea)
• Neath Port Talbot Hospital (Port Talbot)
• Princess of Wales Hospital (Bridgend)

South East Wales

Cwm Taf Health Board includes:

• Prince Charles Hospital (Merthyr Tydfil
• Royal Glamorgan Hospital (Llantrisant)

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board includes:

• University Hospital of Wales (Cardiff)
• Llandough Hospital (Penarth)

Velindre NHS Trust includes:

• Velindre Hospital (Cardiff)

Aneurin Bevan Health Board includes:

• Royal Gwent Hospital (Newport)
• Nevill Hall Hospital (Abergavenny)
• Caerphilly District Miners Hospital (Caerphilly)

Recruitment procedures

Vacancies and details of how to apply will appear on these specific websites http://specialty.walesdeanery.org/ or http://www.cf.ac.uk/pgmde/sections/general/specialtytraining/recruitment/index.html

Alternatively these links are all signposted from our website: www.walesthesmartchoice.co.uk

Advertisements will also be posted in BMJ Careers and Jobcentre Plus

Recruitment responsibilities

The Wales Deanery will be recruiting to the following specialties:

•The Wales Deanery will be recruiting to the following specialties:
• Wales Clinical Academic Track (WCAT) (various grades)
• Core Surgical Training (CT2 Round 2)
• Core Psychiatry Training (CT2/3 Round 2)
• Higher Psychiatry Training (ST4 Round 3)
• Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
• Otolaryngology

Trainees wishing to pursue a career in Wales for the following should follow Royal College or Lead Deanery arrangements and timetables:
• Anaesthetics
• Core Medical Training
• Core Surgical Training (CT1 only)
• General Practice
• Intensive Care Medicine
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Ophthalmology (ST1/FTSTA)
• Paediatrics
• Psychiatry (CT1 only)
• Public Health Medicine
• Radiology
• Acute Care Common Stem
• Histopathology

Key personnel

Trainees with specific queries relating to recruitment to hospital specialties in Wales should contact stjobs@cardiff.ac.uk
Trainees with specific queries relating to recruitment to general practice training in Wales should contact: gpstrecruitment@cardiff.ac.uk
Trainees requiring career guidance or pathway advice should contact pgmedicalcareers@cardiff.ac.uk

More information

If you are looking to develop a rewarding medical career we hope you'll agree with our doctors in our online video that Wales is the smart choice! Trainees currently working in Wales said: "My overall impression of Wales is that it is an amazingly well kept secret. Junior doctors across the country should be clambering to apply here for their training programme. It offers a wonderful lifestyle, great training opportunities, and I would encourage anyone to apply here and would recommend it most highly".

You'll find a link to the videos on: www.walesthesmartchoice.co.uk/