2011 Academic recruitment process
Published: 07/04/2010
The process for recruitment to Academic Foundation Programmes beginning in August 2011 has now been confirmed.
Academic recruitment will now be managed via the national online recruitment system and foundation schools will join together to form units of application (UoA). These changes have been made in order to simplify the system and align it closer to the national Foundation Programme recruitment process.
Academic applicants will begin by completing the national online application form and select a maximum of three UoAs to which they intend to apply. This is the same application form used for the national Foundation Programme recruitment process but without the open text questions commonly known as ‘white space’ questions.
Applicants will then need to check the website of their applying foundation school for details of the relevant UoA’s local recruitment process. This will include its recruitment timeline and details of the supplementary information applicants will need to supply to the UoA prior to a possible interview. The decision and score resulting 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 be allowed one week to accept or reject any offer(s) made. If the applicant does not contact the UoA within this period, it will be assumed they have rejected the offer and it will be withdrawn.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.
For more details please go to the Academic/How To Apply page.
