Foundation Year 1

Allocation to Two-year Foundation programmes

Once applicants have been accepted into NW Thames Foundation School, allocation to two year programmes will be undertaken via FPAS. Applicants are asked to rank programmes in order of preference. Programmes are allocated according to the applicant’s original FPAS score. The algorithm for allocating programmes will operate the same as for allocation to Foundation School. Applicants may rank as many or as few programmes as they wish but the more programmes they rank, the higher their chances of being matched to one of their chosen programmes.  As we have programmes within an Eastern Deanery Trust, an application to this School should not be viewed as an application for solely London programmes. Applicants wishing to avoid random allocation are advised to select a wide range of programmes.

Please see the  Excel version of our programmes for successful applicants NWTFS Two-Year Programmes 2012   in order to assist with the ranking of preferences.

Trainees are allocated to a generic training programme. While the Foundation School will endeavor to keep trainees in their allocated programme, due to current Trust service reconfigurations. All programmes are subject to change in relation to placement order, content, length, site and Trust.

Applicants who have been allocated to NWTFS on the basis of special circumstances are entered into the allocation process in exactly the same way as others in order that standard applicants are not disadvantaged.  In the event of a special circumstances trainee not being allocated a suitable Trust, we will allocate a programme to them that least affects other applicants. This may be a programme or a Trust that was not listed in the applicant’s preferences.

Once allocated, applicants may not exchange programmes with one another, nor may an applicant change to another programme in the event of a vacancy occurring.

F1 Job Descriptions

Please see our individual Trust pages for information on placements.

F1 Feedback

For feedback on placements by F1 doctors please see our feedback page.

2012 Successful Applicants

The entry score required to get into NWTFS in 2012 was at the top of the group who scored 83. When the cut off is in the midst of a group who all scored the same mark a random allocation is made to assign these remaining places.

Below is a graph showing the number of applicants with a particular score range/score in relation to other applicants.