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What is the Foundation Programme?

The Foundation Programme is a 2-year generic training programme that provides experience in various specialties and healthcare settings. It offers improved educational quality, a defined curriculum, competency-based training, and focuses on generic skills. The programme is not specific to a particular specialty.

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What is the Foundation Programme?

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  1. What is the Foundation Programme? • 2 year generic training programme bridging gap between medical school & specialist/GP training • Opportunity to gain experience in a series of placements in a variety of specialties and healthcare settings • Improved educational quality • Defined curriculum • Competency based • Focus on generic skills • Standards for trainers & trainees • NOT training for a particular specialty

  2. FY1 • Geriatric Medicine • Liaison Psychiatry • General Surgery • FY2 • A&E • General Practice • O&G Foundation Training • 2 year programme • F1 year responsibility of Medical School • But open access to posts across the UK • From 2015: HEE requirements: • All do 1 community or ‘integrated’ placement • 45% do 1 psychiatry placement

  3. Foundation Schools www.thequackguide.com http://foundationschools.info/ • http://www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/pages/home

  4. 2015 ICSM Graduate Destinations

  5. Application Process 2016 • National application • process for the UK & world in October • Academic and Standard FP • recruitment run simultaneously • Single opening and closing dates, person spec, application form & scoring guidelines • Applications made via an online form managed by UKFPO

  6. Application scoring - 100 points • 2016 scoring: • Final score is made up of: • Education Performance Measure (EPM = 50 points) • & • Situational Judgement Test score (SJT = 50 points)

  7. EPM (50 points) • EPM = Decile (43) + Educational Achievements (7) • Decile given by Medical School based on ranking within the year: Top 10% get 43 points, bottom 10% get 34 points • Ed Achievements: up to 5 points for additional degrees plus up to 2 points for publications • Put highest additional degree to get most points (PhD=5, 1st =4, 2:1=3, etc) • Publications must have PubMed number • Space to put up to 2 publications • No points for presentations or prizes in standard applications • But you can put them in for academic applications

  8. SJT (50 points) • Run by Medical Schools Council and is a measure of meeting the national Person Specification – not a clinical test • SJT assumes that applicants have knowledge of & insight into the role of an F1 doctor therefore respond as if you are an F1 doctor • Scenarios will be set in a clinical setting but no requirement for specific clinical knowledge as test is targeting professional attributes such as: • Commitment to Professionalism • Coping with Pressure • Effective Communication • Patient Focus • Working Effectively as Part of a Team • 70 questions in 2 hours & 20 mins • Two question formats: • Rank 5 possible responses in order (2/3) • Select the 3 most appropriate responses out of 8 (1/3)

  9. Academic Programmes

  10. Why Apply for Academic Foundation Programme? • Provides opportunity to develop research, teaching and leadership/management skills in addition to acute clinical competences • Intended to be beneficial to trainees planning to go into academic medicine, as well as those who choose a different medical career • Get exposure to a particular specialty • Get a postgraduate Diploma in Management or Leadership • Excellent extension of Imperial course which has an academic focus 500+ posts across the UK to apply for • Nothing to lose by applying so if you are not sure, give it a go! • *2015: 62 ICSM Yr 6 got an AFP. Next closest med school was King’s with 27*

  11. How to maximise your FPAS score • At present deciles are calculated using years 3 & 5 exams so study hard and do well! • You all have an additional degree so are already ahead of many applicants • Publications which are in PubMed get points in standard and academic • Get used to the SJT method of assessment • not just used for Foundation but also GP, Psychiatry, Ophthalmology, and others

  12. How to maximise your AFP Score • AFP recruitment is looking for potential. How can you show potential, commitment and interest in academia for AFP jobs? • Get involve in research now • SORA • Project Pal • Audits, QiPs • Get involved in teaching • Publications on PubMed • Presentations/Posters: national/international conference (not student conferences) • Distinctions, Merits, Prizes

  13. Future changes • GMC National Licencing Exam “Passport to Practice” • will replace PLAB and may be used in place of the SJT or whole FPAS score • Would even out mis-match of deciles between medical schools • Not likely to come in until 2020 so will not affect current Year 3 • Moving point of full GMC registration to graduation • No longer any provisional registration • Currently a proposal from GMC, nothing decided • Would require overhaul of undergrad curriculum • Unsure of how structure of Foundation Programme • Not likely to come in until after 2020 so will not affect current Year 3

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