Ultimate Guide to Internal Medicine Training (IMT) 2023

Have you ever sat in a medical handover, exhausted following 12 hours of extinguishing fires across the hospital, and listened to the conversation between medical trainees thinking “I have no idea what is happening”?

You’re not alone.

Internal Medicine Training (IMT) is the 3-year UK programme that aims to turn you from that dumbstruck foundation trainee into the legendary medical registrar – a hardened veteran of the acute take, master of the dumping grounds, wizard of the wards.

The “Internal Medicine Trainee” badge on your lanyard may still draw raised eyebrows from colleagues who had only just gotten their head around Core Medical Training (CMT), but with a transition to IMT in 2019, there’s still confusion over what an IMT is.

In this ultimate guide to IMT training we will walk you through what IMT is, the IMT curriculum, and what life as an IMT is like.

*This article about Internal Medicine Training (IMT) was written in March 2022, prior to the release of 2023 recruitment information from the JRCPTB. It will be updated as soon as information is released.

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