Training
The STS is responsible for the training of respiratory registrars in Scotland. The 4 deaneries in Scotland – Based in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow – currently support 43 respiratory registrars in training; the geographical spread provides unique challenges in delivering high quality training to all trainees. Although some training is carried out locally by each deanery, it was decided in 2009 to co-ordinate registrar training nationally, so ensure all core curriculum outcomes were met. This system continues into the new decade.
There is a 4 year rotating program, which covers all the core curriculum outcomes thus:
- Respiratory physiology – theory and practice
- Respiratory anatomy and imaging techniques
- Respiratory pharmacology
- Respiratory pathology
- Respiratory microbiology
- Pulmonary infections
- Tuberculosis, pulmonary and extra-pulmonary, and opportunist mycobacterial disease
- Pulmonary disease in the immunocompromised host
- Pulmonary disease in the HIV patient
- Asthma (including patient education and self management)
- Allergic lung disorders and anaphylaxis
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (including pulmonary rehabilitation)
- Early discharge and hospital at home schemes
- Bronchiectasis
- Adult cystic fibrosis
- Obliterative bronchiolitis
- Thoracic oncology
- Palliative Care Medicine
- Smoking cessation
- Genetic and developmental lung disorders
- Sleep breathing disorders
- Acute and chronic respiratory failure
- Hyperventilation syndrome and psychological aspects of breathlessness
- Disorders of pleura and mediastinum
- Diffuse parenchymal lung disease
- Pulmonary vascular diseases
- Occupational and environmental lung disease
- Pulmonary manifestations of systemic disease
- Cardiological aspects of respiratory disease
- Critical and high dependency care of respiratory disease, including the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Genetic and developmental lung disease
- Lung transplantation
Scottish Thoracic Society 
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