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Foundation Programme

concept · in 20 sources (2018–2020)

Two-year programme, FY1 and FY2, that every UK medical graduate does straight after medical school.

Sources by year: 2018: 11 · 2019: 5 · 2020: 4

Also known as: foundation program, FY1, FY2, foundation years

Also named in the threads: Ali's vlogs: medical elective, final year and junior-doctor life (2017) · Ali's final year at Cambridge medical school (2017) · Ali misses out on the Academic Foundation Programme and is reserve-listed in London and EBH (2017) · Ali predicts he will get a foundation job in his top five or ten choices (2018) · Ali promises a strand of videos for medical students on the Academic Foundation application, publications and OSCEs (2018) · Ali's foundation years as a junior doctor at Addenbrooke's Hospital and West Suffolk Hospital (2018) · Ali promises a video on the Academic Foundation Programme with the author of a book about it (2018) · Medical Mondays (2018) · Ali's one-year sabbatical from medicine (2020)

Questions

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Academic Foundation Programme (12) · London (9) · Cambridge (16) · Addenbrooke's Hospital (4) · United Kingdom (8) · Obstetrics and gynaecology (5) · University of Cambridge (7) · Imperial College London (2) · United States (3) · USMLE (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali's two UK foundation years end with his last day of work on 4 August 2020; he will then be unemployed, because he has not applied for any training programme. — 00:03:10
    • In the UK a future specialist such as a plastic surgeon spends four or five years, two foundation years and then core training, before specialising; in the US doctors specialise straight after medical school. — 00:03:10
  • 2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Molly Hunt explains UK medical training: five or six years at university to qualify, then two years of foundation training, F1 and F2, before choosing a specialty. — 00:02:57
    • Molly Hunt wishes she had known that doctors need not choose a specialty early: they can take time out or try different specialties before deciding what to train in. — 00:04:07
    • Ali sometimes breaks rules at work and asks who made them, such as the rule against requesting ultrasound scans after 5pm because the department is closed. — 00:51:21
  • 2020-07-17 · Day in the Life as a Doctor (Gynaecology) — recommendation: Ali: Whatever Ali does not understand about a patient's diagnosis, investigations or management, he asks the consultant or registrar after they have seen the patient; they are usually very happy to explain. — 00:02:13
  • 2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali has just finished his last day of work for quite a while, ending two years as a junior doctor in the UK's National Health Service. — 00:00:00
    • After his two foundation years as a junior doctor, Ali has decided to take a break from medicine for at least a year. — 00:02:53
    • A junior doctor makes a difference by learning how the hospital system works and occasionally bending its rules for patients, such as getting a worried woman scanned after the scan department closes at 5pm, Ali says, rather than swooping in to save the day like Derek Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy. — 00:13:21
    • Early on Ali hesitated to suggest plans to his seniors; after eight months on obstetrics and gynaecology he is comfortable proposing a plan, and the senior doctor usually approves it. — 00:14:01

2019

  • 2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali finds dealing with uncertainty the hardest part of being an F1 doctor: patients' families ask things he is not sure about, and he cannot ask his seniors about every little thing. — 00:10:42
    • Junior doctors at Ali's level earn between £30,000 and £36,000 a year, and he is about halfway through that range in his full-time job. — 00:31:35
  • 2019-05-27 · My Geriatric Medicine Placement - Junior Doctor Vlog #02 — Ali, a junior doctor in Cambridge, looks back on his second placement as a junior doctor, on the geriatrics ward. — 00:00:00
    • On his first placement, cardiology in August 2018, Ali found negotiating scans hard; with experience he pre-empts the radiologist's questions, for example knowing the patient's creatinine before calling about a contrast CT. — 00:17:48
    • Ali was on geriatrics from December 2018 to March 2019, the second placement of his first foundation year. — 00:27:17
  • 2019-06-26 · How I use my iPad Pro as a Doctor — recommendation: Ali: For anything mission-critical, such as the treatment algorithm for a heart attack or a stroke, Ali uses an official resource such as the NICE guidelines or BMJ Best Practice. — 00:06:20
  • 2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — Ali: On a surgical team the consultants and registrars operate; the foundation doctors manage the medical problems of the team's patients. — 00:00:58
    • To get a radiologist to prioritise an ultrasound, Ali says, come prepared with a story and understand how urgent each request is. — 00:08:56
    • Very little of a doctor's day-to-day work needs extensive medical school knowledge, Ali says: the vast majority is being organised, efficient and quick. — 00:17:14
    • What matters in a doctor, Ali says, is having the basics down, knowing when to ask for help, being organised and communicating decently with families. — 00:17:43
    • Even with an unwell patient, Ali says, a junior doctor follows the standard systematic ABCDE approach rather than recalling knowledge. — 00:18:48
    • With every drug on a smartphone, Ali says doctors need not memorise drug doses, mechanisms of action or interactions, though he calls knowing the adrenaline dose very useful in case the emergency setup is not ideal. — 00:19:24
  • …and 5 statements more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

2018

  • 2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali will be assigned to the East Anglia deanery for the Foundation Programme, his first choice because he loves Cambridge, and is now ranking its jobs. — 00:06:50
    • Ali applied for the Academic Foundation Programme but did not get a place. — 00:07:19
    • Ali applied for Academic Foundation Programmes in Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and in London, was interviewed at both, but scored too low and was put on the reserve list. — 00:07:52
  • 2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali thinks he got one of his top few foundation job choices: his first year at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and his second at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — announcement: Ali: Since there is little information about the Academic Foundation Programme, Ali plans four videos: why to apply, the clinical emergency station, the critical appraisal station, and the personal interview with recommended resources. — 00:00:29
    • Ali got none of his Academic Foundation Programme choices: he was put on the reserve list for London and for EBH (Essex, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire). — 00:00:58
  • 2018-08-20 · Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide — Abdullah: Graduates of Bulgarian medical schools have done a sixth-year internship that the GMC recognises as F1, though it is not exactly the same, so they can apply straight for F2 jobs in the UK. — 00:07:19
  • 2018-08-24 · Answering personal questions - 50k subs Q&A — Ali hopes to do F1 and F2, his first two years as a junior doctor, and then maybe take a little time out to explore, perhaps doing some tech or more video work. (hedged) — 00:02:16
    • Ali calls an F1 doctor's salary pretty decent: he and most of his friends earn about 30,000 to 34,000 a year before tax. — 00:10:27
  • 2018-10-13 · How to be a good junior doctor (ft. That Medic) — recommendation: That Medic says an F1 is the least experienced doctor in the hospital, so should seek feedback from everyone, nurses included, actively or through the Foundation Programme's case reflections and case-based discussions. — 00:02:48
    • That Medic says many F1 questions can be answered with a bit of research in a book or trusted websites, so a good F1 seeks advice but also suggests a solution, the best way to learn. — 00:04:59
    • Ali says doctors are in charge of the care of the patient at hand, so patient safety is his number one priority, above the bed crisis and other pressures. — 00:10:46
  • …and 62 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018