AOMRC Foundation Programme Curriculum Revision
Published: 11/08/2011
Further to the MEE Evaluation of the Foundation Programme Curriculum, the Academy of Medical Royal College’s Foundation Programme Committee is revising the Foundation Programme Curriculum which will be in use for the 2012 cohort.
Click here to download the draft revised Foundation Programme Curriculum upon which we are seeking your comments.
The changes include:
1) Alterations to the assessment process (click here to see a template for the proposed Supervised Learning Events forms – mini-CEX)
2) Inclusion of the purpose of foundation
3) Inclusion of high level descriptors, differentiating between F1 and F2 outcomes
4) Revision and updating of competences and all other sections.
This revision will focus on four of the 33 recommendations from the MME evaluation:
Recommendation 1: MEE (through the Medical Programme Board) - working with its counterparts in the other UK countries - should confirm the purpose of the Foundation Programme as those set out in this Report by 2012.
Recommendation 2: By the end of 2011, the GMC should define, in a revised edition of The New Doctor, the outcomes required to complete the second year (F2) of the Foundation Programme.
Recommendation 15: The Foundation Programme Curriculum should be revised to give greater emphasis to the total patient, long-term conditions and the increasing role of community care. It should also reflect the changing ways of working, in particular the need for team-working skills within a multi-professional environment. This revision should be completed by 2013, which will allow time for the content of the revised edition of The New Doctor (due in 2011) to be considered. Those involved in the revision of the Curriculum must ensure that the new curriculum integrates fully with medical school curricula.
Recommendation 20: The range of assessment tools and the number of times assessment must be repeated in the Foundation Programme should be reviewed, with a view to reducing these to the minimum required by 2013. The opportunity to avoid repetitive assessments, by improved transfer of information between undergraduate and schools, should be actively explored.
The full Collins report can be downloaded from http://www.mee.nhs.uk/pdf/401339_MEE_FoundationExcellence_acc.pdf. You may also find it useful to refer to the current FP Curriculum which can be downloaded from the Key Documents page of the UKFPO website.
As the timescale for this revision has been particularly tight, the review period will last four weeks. Therefore, please send all comments back to Manjula Das at manjula.das@aomrc.org.uk by no later than noon on Wednesday 7th September.
