Specialty Training Board (Clinical Radiology)

Terms of reference

The primary responsibilities of the CR STB are:

1. To engage as appropriate with medical undergraduates and undergraduate medical societies, and those in pre-specialty training, and promoting clinical radiology as a career.

2. Arrangements for recruitment into UK specialty training.

3. Approving changes to the specialty training curriculum for Clinical Radiology, as proposed by the CR Curriculum Committee and submitting updates to the CR Curriculum to the relevant regulatory body for formal approval when required.

4. Overseeing the work of the CR Curriculum Committee in reviewing and developing an integrated training assessment system including workplace-based assessment. 

5. Collaborating with responsible bodies for approving and reviewing arrangements for the quality assurance of training.

6. Ensuring the delivery of the Fellowship Examinations for the specialty through the Fellowship Examination Board.

7. Overseeing the processes by which the College makes recommendations for the award of Certificates of Completion of Training to the relevant regulatory body.  

8. Developing guidance by which the College makes recommendations for the award of Certificates of Eligibility for Specialist Registration, as advised by the Equivalence Committee, and making recommendations to the relevant regulatory body.

9. Overseeing training-related awards, fellowships, bursaries and prizes.

10. Developing and defining additional pathways and infrastructure for doctors to join the specialty of clinical radiology, at all career stages.

11. Overseeing fellowship opportunities created to support training and workforce from time to time as necessary.

The CR STB has wider responsibility for:

12. Working with the CR Academic Committee as needed, to support academic development and encourage research-active and academic clinical radiologists within the UK.

13. Developing for consideration by the CR Faculty Leadership Team new initiatives in the education and training of clinical radiologists and undertaking any other projects or activities at the request of the Faculty Leadership Team.

14. Establishing and reviewing arrangements for communicating with trainees, training programme personnel and others.

15. Approving for issue any publications associated with its work.

16. Reporting at least once a year to the Faculty Leadership Team on its work.

Subsidiary bodies

The CR STB should:

17. With agreement of the Faculty Leadership Team, establish such boards, sub-committees and working groups as are required within the resources approved by the Trustee Board to enable the work outlined above to be effectively undertaken. Current subsidiary bodies are outlined in annex A.  

18. Oversee the work of those boards, committees and working groups to which the CR STB has given delegated responsibility.

19. Ensure that each such group has clear terms of reference setting out its role, function and delegated responsibility, approve any changes to those Terms of Reference as required and ensure that role descriptions are in place for membership of those groups. 

20. Consider proposals for new projects and workstreams from its boards, committees and working groups, as appropriate.

Membership

21. There will be four members elected by means of nomination and election processes that parallel those that apply to the election of members of other RCR boards and committees.

22. Elected members serve for terms of three years and no more.

23. There will be up to four appointed members who will all be Fellows of the Faculty of Clinical Radiology resident in the UK, and in active clinical practice at the time of their appointment.  All appointed members must have experience of providing postgraduate training and/or experience in wider global recruitment, as well as an interest in curriculum development, quality assurance or assessment.

24. Appointed members serve for terms of three years and can be appointed for one further term of up to three years where appropriate and by the agreement of the Chair.

25. All elected and appointed members will be expected to be actively involved in the work of the Board and, when required, to sit on the Curriculum Committee or other sub-committees that are formed to carry out specific workstreams. 

26. There may be one lay member.

27. Ex-officio members are:

1. the President 
2. all Clinical Radiology Officers
3. the Chair of the CR Curriculum Committee
4. the Chair of the CR Fellowship Examination Board
5. the Chair of the Junior Radiologists’ Forum
6. the CR Recruitment Lead
7. the CR Less-Than-Full-Time Working Adviser
8. the CR Quality Assurance Lead.

28. There may be up to two co-opted members.

29. Co-opted members may be co-opted at the CR STB’s discretion, if the Board considers that particular sections of the membership are under-represented, or if particular skills or expertise are sought.  If the Board determines that there is no particular under-representation, it shall be under no obligation to make any co-options.  

30. Co-opted members will serve for a period of office appropriate to the role for which they have been co-opted, as agreed by the CR STB, but this will not exceed three years. 

31. Observer members are:

1. The Lead-Dean for Clinical Radiology
2. The Chair of the Vascular Surgery Specialty Advisory Committee 
3. A representative of the Faculty of Radiologists of The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 

32. All members of the CR STB shall cease to hold office if they fail to attend two consecutive meetings of this Board without providing an explanation which the Chair of the CR STB considers satisfactory.
Chair

33. The Board will be chaired by the Medical Director, Education and Training, CR.

34. The duties of the Chair include

1. Chairing all meetings
2. Ensuring that the purpose and terms of reference are observed
3. Engaging all members of the Board in the work being done
4. Ensuring regular reports are made to the Faculty Leadership Team
5. Ensuring that relevant matters are drawn to the attention of the Vice-President, the Faculty Leadership Team or Officers as appropriate
6. Ensuring that the Faculty of Clinical Oncology is appropriately consulted or involved on matters that affect both specialties and the resultant outcome is coordinated and, as far as possible, consistent across the Faculties
7. Acting as media spokesperson for the College in respect of matters within the remit of the Board at the request of the President or the Vice-President, Clinical Radiology. 

Operation

35. The CR STB will meet not more than three times per year on dates to be agreed unless exceptionally required to transact urgent business.

36. Meetings may be held in person or by remote attendance.

37. CR STB members may be called upon to consider or determine matters electronically between meetings and are expected to contribute to such considerations or decisions as part of their duties as Board members.

38. Where proposals or initiatives discussed by the CR STB would incur expenditure or future financial commitment by the College which is not within the approved budget, these should be referred for consideration under the out-of-budget expenditure procedure, as agreed from time to time by the Trustee Board. 

39. CR STB members must not speak on behalf of the College unless authorised to do so.

40. CR STB members must abide by any stated or implied confidentiality that attaches to the work of the Board during or after any period of membership.

41. CR STB members must comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018 as regards processing (as defined in the Act) of any personal data where it is made available to them as part of their work.

42. At meetings of the CR STB, one-third of the voting members plus one shall form a quorum.  For the purposes of forming a quorum and in the event of a formal vote, voting members are those holding elected, appointed and ex-officio positions on the Board.

Updated: September 2024

Approved: October 2024