Health Protection attachment
During phase 1 or 2 the trainee must undertake a three-month attachment (or equivalent period) to a health protection unit or consultant in communicable disease control, where they are expected to acquire many of the public health skills to deal with health protection issues.
Guidance documents on health protection attachment
Below is a series of guidance documents describing the general training requirements in health protection for all trainees and the higher level of training for those trainees who wish to specialise in Health Protection.
- The Faculty Board and the HPA approved Health Protection Training for generalists in public health, including Educational Requirements for on-call [PDF] in August 2006.
- Training in Health Protection [PDF] June 2003
The guidance recognises the wider specialism of health protection that was announced in Getting Ahead of the Curve.
- Standards and guidance for commencement of supervised on call duties [pdf] May 2007
This document describes the standards required of all trainees in public health to be achieved before starting supervised on call duties. It also gives guidance to trainers on possible methods of delivery for development of competence for on call and for assessment of competence.
Although communicable disease control is not a sub-speciality of public health, those interested in training to become a consultant in communicable disease control should make their interest known as soon as possible to their Faculty Adviser, who may refer them to a local CCDC trainer for further advice.