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Overview
August 2005 saw the start of the new two-year Foundation Programme
pursued by all newly-qualified doctors in the UK. It has been devised
as a UK-wide strategy supported by the Health Departments in all four
home countries within the UK.
Please see the Foundation Programme and Modernising Medical Careers
websites
www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk and
www.mmc.nhs.uk for
full information, including the following downloadable documents:
The Competences to be acquired in both the first (F1) year and the
second (F2) year of the Programme are laid out in the Curriculum. In
the F2 year, there will be a particular focus on acute care, so that
all doctors finishing the Programme will be competent to provide
initial care of the acutely ill patient. However, it is important to
recognize that the management of chronic diseases makes up an
increasingly large part of healthcare and the impact of chronic
disease on acute illness presentation will also be stressed.
The Programme will follow the educational principles of a 'spiral
curriculum'. Learning will build on previous experiences, revisited at
increasing levels of complexity and in different settings so that
learning is broadened as the programme progresses.
The standards and overall programme for the first year of the
Foundation Programme (F1) have been set out by the General Medical
Council (GMC) in 'The
New Doctor' . After successful completion of the F1 Programme,
doctors will be recommended for full registration to the GMC.
The overall responsibility for approving the Programme in the
second year will lie with the
Postgraduate
Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB).
At the end of the second year, the doctor should be competent to
accept professional accountability for patient safety through clinical
governance and be ready to start a programme of further specialist
training.
Trainees will be assessed at intervals throughout the Programme in
the workplace. The methods of assessments were piloted and validated
during 2005 in advance of the first Foundation Programmes in August
2005.
There is a standard UK professional development portfolio for
trainees to record progress through the Programme and to keep records
of all assessments.
This page was last updated
15/05/08
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