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12. Glossary of termsFoundation Training Programme Director/Tutor (FTPD/T)GMCLocal Education Provider (LEP)PMETBTraining PostsPlacementsProfessionalismThe individual appointed by the Deaneryand Local Education Provider (LEP) tomanage and lead a Foundation Programme.General Medical Council. The GMC’sstatutory purpose is ‘to protect, promote andmaintain the health and safety of the publicby ensuring proper standards in the practiceof medicine.’Postgraduate education providers ofplacements as part of programmes forexample trusts, Health Boards, generalpractices. There should be a service levelagreement or equivalent between LEPs andthe Deanery or commissioner of education.Postgraduate Medical and EducationTraining Board. Was the CompetentAuthority for both hospital specialties andgeneral practice prior to the merger with theGMC in 2010.These are the training opportunitiescontracted with foundation doctors byhealthcare organisations during theirindividual Foundation Programmes at eitherF1 or F2 level.The clinical components of an individualFoundation Programme, typically consistingof three specialties in either a F1 or F2rotation.Adherence to a set of values comprisingstatutory professional obligations, formallyagreed codes of conduct, and the informalexpectations of patients and colleagues.Key values include acting in the patients’best interest and maintaining the standardsof competence and knowledge expectedof members of highly trained professions.These standards include ethical elementssuch as integrity, probity, accountability,duty and honour. In addition to medicalknowledge and skills, medical professionalsshould present psychosocial and humanisticqualities such as caring, empathy, humilityand compassion, social responsibility andsensitivity to people’s culture and beliefs(from the Workplace Based AssessmentSubcommittee of the PMETB).The UK Foundation Programme: Reference Guide 79
12. Glossary of termsProgrammeTOFPFoundation School DirectorA managed educational experience.Time out of Foundation Programme.The head of the foundation school. The FSDis accountable to the postgraduate dean.The UK Foundation Programme: Reference Guide80
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