Medical Training Application Service

The How To guide to getting your place in the world

It is all part of the process

Don’t get too hung up about it

Element of randomness

Go with what you want

Do get others to read over your application

Don’t feel you have to attend every talk or take up every offer of help

Reflective practice & PDS!!!

Getting Started

Registration opens

Use UCL email address

Questions available for one week before application opens

Disclaimer - Things may have changed. Take everything I say with a pinch of salt. This is not the gospel.

Application Form Breakdown

Personal details

Clinical skills

References

One clinical

One academic - someone who holds a UCL position

Questions - scored

By lay and clinical markers

Scoring

Academic - 40

Questions - 60

Six questions each of 10 points

200 words limit - questions 2-6

Questions are horizontally marked

The best answers are not original

A random sample will need to provide evidence

Question 1

List your educational achievements

Part A - additional degrees (max 5 points)

Part B - other educational achievements (max 5 points)

Peer reviewed publications

National presentations

Nationally recognised prizes

Question 2

Describe a case from your clinical experience that you have observed in the first 24 hours from hospital admission. How did members of different professional teams interact and how did this contribute to effective patient care? What did you learn from this that will influence your future practice as a new doctor?

Question 2

Describe a case

Be brief and brutal

Interaction between different professional teams

Contribution to effective patient care

Awareness of multidisciplinary team

Lesson learnt that will influence your practice

Question 3

Describe a memorable experience of being taught and how this has shaped your thinking about teaching. Identify a particular setting in which you might be teaching as a doctor in the future. Describe how you might apply what you have learned to maximise the effectiveness of your teaching.

Question 3

Memorable experience of being taught

Can be good or bad

Your thinking about teaching

Identify a particular setting

One setting

Apply what you have learned

Question 4

You are one of two foundation doctors on a ward round. The registrar identifies a minor error made by your colleague and makes inappropriate critical comments in front of the patient and the healthcare team. Your colleague is visibly distressed. What actions would you take and how would you prioritise these? What actions do you believe your colleague should take in relation to these comments? How might you address a minor error made by a more junior colleague in the future?

Question 4

You are one of two foundation doctors on a ward round. The registrar identifies a minor error made by your colleague and makes inappropriate critical comments in front of the patient and the healthcare team. Your colleague is visibly distressed. What actions would you take and how would you prioritise these? What actions do you believe your colleague should take in relation to these comments? How might you address a minor error made by a more junior colleague in the future?

Question 4

Hypothetical situation

Loaded question

Focus on actions

Put them in order

Demonstrate an understanding of protocol

How you would deal junior colleagues

Question 5

Describe one example from your medical training when you received feedback on an aspect of your performance. Explain how that feedback altered your subsequent practice. How will you use this experience to develop a specific aspect of your foundation training?

Question 5

Feedback

Positive or negative

Subsequent practice

Specific aspect of your training

Clinical competencies - foundation programme curriculum

http://www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/pages/foundation-doctors/key-documents

Question 6

At times, the patient and the medical team have different ideas on the management of the patient’s illness, because of personal, social or cultural views held by the patient. Describe a clinical case where you have observed this. Identify the factors that contributed to those differing views. Why is it important to understand these differences in your practice as a foundation doctor?

Question 6

Pick a juicy case

Go for cliché

You don’t have to tell the whole story

Identify the factors - personal, social, cultural

Importance of understanding differences

Awareness of the role of a foundation doctor

Any questions?

Thoughts?

Controversies?

Mythbusters?

It is all about confidence in your own ability.http://www.gmc-uk.org/static/

documents/content/GMC_GMP_0911.pdf