Fill out the keywords below to perform a site search
Section Navigation:

Get the most from our site

Use this form to change the page information to suit you

What is this? Select a job category closest to your own from the list provided and we will automatically tailor areas of the website to be more relevant to you.

News - April 2010

Academic recruitment process for 2011

19 April 2010

THE process for recruitment to academic foundation programmes beginning in August 2011 has been announced.

It will be managed online via the national recruitment system, the UK Foundation Programme Office has said. Foundation schools will join together to form units of application (UoA) as part of a bid to simplify the system and bring it into line with the national Foundation Programme recruitment process.

Academic applicants will begin by filling out the national online application form and selecting a maximum of three UoAs to which they intend to apply. This is the same form used for the national Foundation Programme recruitment process but without the open text questions, commonly known as ‘white space questions’.

Applicants will then have to check the website of their applying foundation school for details of the relevant UoA’s local recruitment process. This will have information on its recruitment timeline and details of the supplementary information applicants will need to give the UoA before any interview takes place. The decision and score from an interview at one foundation school will be accepted by all others within that UoA.

Following local interviews, there will be one national offer date and applicants will have one week in which to accept or reject any offers made. Those who don’t respond within this timescale will have their offer withdrawn. A cascade process will then be run to manage any unfilled vacancies which remain.

The UKFPO will undertake national eligibility checking on behalf of UoAs for those applicants who are not currently in a UK medical school or who qualified more than two years prior to the start of their Foundation Programme.

Matching applicants to specific programmes within a foundation school will be managed outside the national online recruitment system and will be the responsibility of UoAs. Eligibility documentation can be submitted between May 10 and 21 only.

For more details, go to the UKFPO webiste's Academic/How To Apply page