Marked as mandatory. These will be approved by your Educational Supervisor, the Rota team and then passed onto the Medical Education team for final processing.

For speciality course information and HET course code, please follow this link:

Study Leave Course Lists : PGMDE Support Portal (hee.nhs.uk)

Marked as recommended. These can be approved by your Educational Supervisor, the Rota team and then passed onto the Medical Education team for final processing.

For speciality course information and HET course code, please follow this link:

Study Leave Course Lists : PGMDE Support Portal (hee.nhs.uk)

These courses or conferences will not appear on the LASE study leave Lists. The doctor in a training post must first write to their Educational supervisor and Training Programme Director to seek approval from the Head of School (HoS). An discretional course is any course which does not appear on the Mandatory or Optional LASE study leave lists, including Leadership and Management course and overseas courses. These discretional courses/conferences are specific to the school that the doctor’s training programme belongs to. Please note: There is an approval cap on the level of funding support for discretional events of £1000 and this is subject to available NHSE funds.

Once the Head of School approves the application, the doctor must then submit a request for an approval code to the Head of School via https://lasepgmdesupport.hee.nhs.uk/support/tickets/new?form_d33=true

To apply for discretional courses, please follow the below link:

Process for Discretionary Courses 2024 : PGMDE Support Portal (hee.nhs.uk)

Study leave for doctors in training is online, please register via the following link:

Log in - E-PGME (epgme.uk)

Guidance on how to register for an online account for study leave can be access here:

Please see attached guidance on study leave for Foundation doctors:

Any queries, please send to medwayft.foundation.studyleave@nhs.net.