Is there a limit to what you can specialise in?

Hello,

You haven't said exactly which job role you are interested in, but as I have picked up your question I will assume you are talking about medical officers - if this is not the case, please let me know!

The short answer is yes. While the Army did used to employ a wider range of specialties, the focus is more on the more generalist specialties (with a few exceptions) that can provide the most support to deployments. While in the UK serving personnel have the same access to NHS care, so some specialties are not required. Each year Army manning will assess what specialities are required to support the Army and then recruit for these roles, so there is often a change in which specialties you can apply for. For example, a few years ago there were no radiology specialty training posts, but last year there was one.

Generally speaking the specialties that often have training jobs available are GP, public health, psychiatry, general medicine, general surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, anaesthetics, emergency medicine.