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7. Quality assurance, management and control7.18 Deaneries/foundation schools should ensure that two year programmes areconstructed to:• reflect the needs and priorities of the national health service;• allow achievement of the outcomes and competences as set out in the FoundationProgramme Curriculum (the Curriculum);• provide a provisionally registered doctor an acceptable foundation for futurepractice as a fully registered medical practitioner;• provide experiences of healthcare delivery in a variety of settings including thecommunity and promote broad-based learning across both years of the FoundationProgramme;• be balanced in specialty content;• allow foundation doctors to gain understanding of the interfaces betweendifferent types of care delivery; and• promote recruitment to shortage specialties.7.19 The foundation school must provide clear programme descriptions describing howthe outcomes, including the general professional competences, will be covered in theplacements in F1 and in F2. Learning in placements should be supported and reinforcedby a generic teaching programme.Foundation Programmes that cross deanery boundaries7.20 Some deaneries/foundation schools have training opportunities outside their deaneryor school boundaries. Where this happens, the LEP should not normally have links withmore than two deaneries/foundation schools.7.21 Foundation schools that form such links should have at least three to six trainingopportunities at these linked LEPs.7.22 The deanery/foundation school where the LEP is based is normally responsible for thequality management and coordination of the education delivered.7.23 Foundation doctors allocated to foundation placements outside their deanery orschool boundaries will undertake their training in accordance with the requirementsof the foundation school where the LEP is based. If they meet the requirements forsatisfactory completion, the FTPD/T based in the LEP should complete the Attainmentof F1 Competence (or equivalent) and the Foundation Achievement of CompetenceDocument (FACD) (see appendix 11g).7.24 Foundation doctors should send their Attainment of F1 Competence at the end ofthe F1 year or the FACD at the end of F2, to the foundation school where they wereoriginally allocated. The foundation doctor should follow the process set out bytheir medical school for submission of the Certificate of Experience at the end of F1.However, Foundation doctors, who are granted an inter-foundation school transferor are successful in their application for an F2 programme outside their originalfoundation school, will become the responsibility of the new foundation school.They must send their FACD to this new foundation school and not the foundationschool of entry.The UK Foundation Programme: Reference Guide 27
7. Quality assurance, management and control7.25 Foundation doctors in linked training opportunities, who are experiencing difficultiesin their training, must be supported at first by the local FTPD/T. If the doctor is stillhaving difficulties, the deanery/foundation school where the foundation doctor wasoriginally allocated, must be contacted to design a remedial (support) programme.Although this may take place in the deanery/foundation school where the LEP is based,the arrangements should be made jointly with the foundation doctor’s allocateddeanery/foundation school. If the support programme needs extra funding, the costswill normally be met by the deanery/foundation school where the foundation doctorwas originally allocated.Acquisition of foundation competences outside of the UKTraining as a provisionally registered doctor outside of the UK7.26 Medical students wishing to undertake their first postgraduate training year(training as a provisionally registered doctor) outside of the UK should seek the adviceof their medical school.7.27 In exceptional circumstances, the medical school in partnership with the localpostgraduate deanery may prospectively approve training as a provisionally registereddoctor outside of the UK and upon satisfactory completion, support an application forfull registration with the GMC. The medical school and local deanery should publishtheir policy relating to training as a provisionally registered doctor undertaken outsideof the UK.F2 training outside of the UK7.28 Foundation doctors wishing to undertake F2 outside of the UK should contact theirdeanery/foundation school in which they are completing their F1 year. This meansthat foundation doctors should complete their first year of foundation training in thefoundation school considering their application.7.29 Deaneries/foundation schools should publish their policy on acquisition of foundationcompetences outside of the UK and make this available to those applying to theFoundation Programme. Not all deaneries/foundation schools support F2 abroad.7.30 Prospective approval must be granted if the training outside of the UK is to counttowards the requirements for satisfactory completion of the Foundation Programme.It is the foundation doctor’s responsibility to arrange a suitable placement and confirmthat the unit has agreed to provide training, assessment and support in accordancewith the requirements for satisfactory completion of the Foundation Programme.The UK Foundation Programme: Reference Guide28
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