FPH Membership Registrar Queries Jan 2018 Do Registrars have to pay full membership fees post part B or can they maintain their Registrar membership and pay the Registrar fee until CCT instead? Once the Part B exam has been passed the Registrar is eligible to become a full Member of the Faculty. They can however choose not to take this up until they CCT. However, they will need to be admitted to full Membership before the CCT recommendation can be made to GMC/UKPHR as this is one of the CCT criteria. For those on the Training Programme post 2016 you will be automatically upgraded as you pass the Part A and Part B exams as the annual fee remains the same (excluding inflation) until you CCT. What happens if a Registrar becomes a Consultant mid-way through the year? Are they expected to pay extra for Consultant membership to cover that period or do they begin paying Consultant membership the following year? If a Registrar mid-way through the year and then chooses to become a full CCT’s Member of the Faculty they would only pay the new fee the following January. What happens when the 4 year membership scheme ends for Registrars who are currently in year 4 of training? What are they expected to pay in year 5? The 4 year membership package was introduced as a means to spread the cost of membership, the training enrolment fee and part of the exam fees over 4 years, interest free, to make the fees more manageable. If you are still in training in the 5th or subsequent years the fees would revert to the standard pre 2016 fees. (e.g £131 SpR, £196 Diplomate fee etc) Why are membership fees not directly correlated with income? Why should a Consultant who is only earning £60k be expected to pay the exact same membership fee as a Consultant earning over £100k? The Faculty do offer reduced subscriptions based on salary levels for the Diplomate, Membership and Fellows fees. See FPH Subscription Rates 2018 on the website or follow this link. Up to 33% off in some cases. Can the membership fees for Registrars be based on training year (and hence linked to salary) rather than being a flat rate throughout the training period? Since 2016 the training fees have been £290 a year, this can be paid over 10 months by direct debit so only £29 a month. There are reviews of the fees periodically and I can ask that this is put forward for review.
FPH Membership Registrar Queries Jan 2018 Do Registrars have to pay full membership fees post part B or can they maintain their Registrar membership and pay the Registrar fee until CCT instead? Once the Part B exam has been passed the Registrar is eligible to become a full Member of the Faculty. They can however choose not to take this up until they CCT. However, they will need to be admitted to full Membership before the CCT recommendation can be made to GMC/UKPHR as this is one of the CCT criteria. For those on the Training Programme post 2016 you will be automatically upgraded as you pass the Part A and Part B exams as the annual fee remains the same (excluding inflation) until you CCT. What happens if a Registrar becomes a Consultant mid-way through the year? Are they expected to pay extra for Consultant membership to cover that period or do they begin paying Consultant membership the following year? If a Registrar CCT’s mid-way through the year and then chooses to become a full Member of the Faculty they would only pay the new fee the following January. What happens when the 4 year membership scheme ends for Registrars who are currently in year 4 of training? What are they expected to pay in year 5? The 4 year membership package was introduced as a means to spread the cost of membership, the training enrolment fee and part of the exam fees over 4 years, interest free, to make the fees more manageable. If you are still in training in the 5th or subsequent years the fees would revert to the standard pre 2016 fees. (e.g £131 SpR, £196 Diplomate fee etc) Why are membership fees not directly correlated with income? Why should a Consultant who is only earning £60k be expected to pay the exact same membership fee as a Consultant earning over £100k? The Faculty do offer reduced subscriptions based on salary levels for the Diplomate, Membership and Fellows fees. See FPH Subscription Rates 2018 on the website or follow this link. Up to 33% off in some cases. Can the membership fees for Registrars be based on training year (and hence linked to salary) rather than being a flat rate throughout the training period? Since 2016 the training fees have been £290 a year, this can be paid over 10 months by direct debit so only £29 a month. There are reviews of the fees periodically and I can ask that this is put forward for review.
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