With all UK final year medical students (hopefully) having submitted their applications for foundation year jobs the process begins matching them up to jobs. UKFPO have helpfully detailed the process. Question 1 is the one about qualifications and presentations, so marking it is more a case of verification that anything else. Interesting that applicants are scored by their first choice foundation school. The reason may be that applications tend to get into their first choice schools, and foundation schools tend to use UKFPO scores in sorting applicants into their jobs, so foundation schools will be more in control of which jobs go to whom. The proportion of applicants getting into their first-choice foundation school has been high but decreasing slightly year-on-year for the first three years. Last year, it dipped below 90% for the first time. The ratios can be found here. It’s possible that competitive foundation schools such as North East Thames and Severn may score more harshly than other foundation schools, although it’s also possible that they may score less harshly.
November 2009: Application forms are scored by a panel from the applicant’s first choice foundation school with the exception of Question One which will be scored by a national panel.
9 December 2009: Application results will be available to view via applicants’ online accounts.
25 January 2010: Deadline for applicants to rank the programmes available in their allotted foundation school in order of preference.
16 February 2010: Applicants will be notified of their match to specific programmes within their allotted foundation school.
Until 26 February 2010: References will be requested from two referees.
- Dom
