Run-through training was a new idea, launched in 2007, as part of the NHS Modernising Medical Careers scheme. Its purpose is to provide a framework for the further training of doctors emerging from the Foundation training programme (i.e. the first two years following graduation from medical school), in order to become qualified in one of the medical specialities. Candidates gain entry to one of these programmes through a competitive entrance process, following which, subject to satisfactory progress and attainment of competences, the candidate would gain a certificate of completion of training (CCT) in the chosen speciality. I have been a run-through trainee now for more than two years. For me, it has been a very positive experience overall. Below, I will briefly explain how and why I became a run-through urology trainee, as well as good and bad points of this method of training from my point of view.