How can I find out about career prospects as a clinical pharmacologist in the United Kingdom?
Have a career or related problem that needs answering? Can’t find the right person to point you in the right direction? Log on to the Advice Zone for reliable medical careers advice. You can post a question or see if one of our 300 advisers has already answered a similar question. Here is a selection of questions and answers posted on the site. www.bmjcareers.com/advicezone A clinical pharmacologist trains in a similar way to any other medical specialist. You do general professional training, acquire membership of the Royal College of Physicians, then apply for an SpR (specialist registrar) number in clinical pharmacology. Posts usually offer dual accreditation in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT) and general internal medicine (GIM). Career prospects are currently reasonable in clinical pharmacology and there are SpR numbers available. CPT is about the only specialty that has kept an academic component to routine training and is hard to define as people in the specialty have
