Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) is a five-year workplace-based training programme that provides opportunities for healthcare scientists to train to become eligible to apply for available consultant scientist posts.
Scientists entering these programmes will be trained to become the consultants of the future offering a pivotal role to meet the challenges of delivering healthcare ‘at the limits of science’.
The HSST programme is one that is entirely bespoke to you and your previous experiences. It is unlike other training programmes under the MSC umbrella in that it requires you and your employer to develop an appropriate job plan against the demands of the specialism specific curriculum.
It requires you to achieve a balance between academic learning and work-based training and to decide the level of formative evidence appropriate to meet the demands of summative assessments.
Whilst we use the word trainee for expediency, we recognise that those on the programme are experienced scientists.