Information for trainees
Are you interested in volunteering for the ETP Induction 2025?
We are holding the Echocardiography Training Programme Induction Day online via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 21 October 2025.
As part of the agenda, we have planned a session with a panel of trainees. We are looking for panel members to provide advice to new trainees and answer questions from the audience.
This is a fantastic opportunity for trainees to develop their public speaking skills and support the new intake starting in October.
If you would like to volunteer to be on the panel of trainees at induction this year, please complete this expression of interest form.
Information for training officers
Chief Scientific Officer Healthcare Science webinar series
The Office of the Chief Scientific Officer at NHS England would like to invite you to a healthcare science webinar series. The purpose of these webinars is to provide the latest information and to engage with healthcare scientists on relevant topics.
The first webinar, which will focus on the healthcare science workforce, will be on Monday 30 June 2025 11am to 12noon. This will provide an overview of the healthcare science workforce, including the latest data and insights, plans and developments in education and training.
If you would like to receive invites to the series, please register your interest. Following registration, the invites will be sent to you in a separate email.
Please feel free to forward this email on to your healthcare science colleagues, including trainees. The webinar is open to healthcare science professionals at all levels. We would also like to encourage you to register for the CSO’s healthcare science bulletin.
Register your interest in the CSO Healthcare Science webinar series
ETP accreditation – annual monitoring to recommence in July
Our annual monitoring return will be recommencing using our revised process from Monday 28 July 2025. All departments endorsed on or before 28 July 2024 are required to complete annual monitoring as part of their endorsement. If you have been endorsed within the last year, you are exempt from completing the return.
Annual monitoring will be conducted in the form of an online questionnaire, which will be sent to you on Monday 28 July 2025. The academic year you will need to report on is from September 2024 to August 2025.
We ask for details of any changes that may have influenced or affected the delivery of training. These include:
- staffing and organisational changes
- changes to training planning and the availability of resources
- engagement in the ‘ETP Train the Trainer’ webinar
- challenges encountered in delivering the Echocardiography Training Programme
- support provided for equality, diversity and inclusion
If you have already notified the School of changes for this period through our change notification process, you are not required to report these changes again.
If you have not notified the School of any changes for this period or would like to notify us of a future change, please download and complete the Change Notification form and any additional relevant forms.
Non-completion of your annual monitoring return may affect your accreditation status and future commissioning of training posts.
Download a Change Notification form
ETP Induction 2025
We are holding the 2025 ETP Induction Day online via Teams on Tuesday 21 October. Timings and agenda to be confirmed.
Trainees joining the ETP in October will need to attend this key event as part of their induction to the training programme and will be invited once interviews have been completed and posts filled.
Are you interested in sharing your practice?
If you or your network have developed practice that you feel could be valuable to share with your peers, please express an interest in sharing your practice via the form linked to below. We are particularly interested in short talks on ‘Strategies for undertaking and assessing Direct Observation of Practical Skills (DOPS)’ and ‘Strategies for undertaking and assessing Observed Communication Events (OCEs)’.
Express an interest in sharing your practice
Missed a previous edition of the ETP Monthly Memo?
We’ve published copies of the Monthly Memo for ETP trainees and training officers on our website.
Click here to view previous editions of the ETP Monthly Memo.