Academic Foundation Programme Sharing Notable Practice

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Academic Foundation ProgrammeSharing Notable
Practice

• The F1 experience

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All About Me

• University of Edinburgh 2002-08
• Intercalated BSc Pharmacology (1st class)
• BPS Winter meeting
• Circulation
• SSC4 in communication within paediatric plastic
  surgery clinic
• MBChB (Hons)
• Foundation Doctor in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
  Hospitals Trust
• Care of the Elderly (GIM)
• Academic Medicine (Paediatric oncology)
• Vascular Surgery

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The NUTH/Northern Deanery Programme

• 4 month block in Academic Medicine in both F1 and
  F2
• Area of our choosing
• No allocated funding
• On-call for General Medicine (optional in F2)
• Academic competencies Foundation Competencies
• Opportunity to shadow
• Academic social/support network

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My Project

• Europe-wide collaboration
• Screening paediatric tumours for kinase
  mutation/amplifications
• MLPA
• PCR
• Bio-informatics/primer design
• Small numbers of amplifications in each tumour
  type.

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Whats good about the academic programme?

• Future skills
• Network
• Links between University and NUTH
• Choice of area
• Long period of time
• Study Leave
• Academic and Clinical Supervisor

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The Comments
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The Good

• Thats really good they let people who like
  science do that F1
• Id love the time to know a speciality in that
  much detail! F1
• Oh brilliant, can you tell me how I can get on
  that?
• 4th yr medical student
• Ive always found ACFs to be very good,
  in both knowledge and skills. Im sure the
  AFPs will be just the same Consultant
  (non-researching)

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The Bad...

• Hows it going in the labyou must be so
  stressed? - F1
• Hows your hand?from all that pipetting F1
• You must have drawn the short straw to get
  placed here
• - Post-doc Researcher
• Lets ask Prof to explain what pseudomyxoma
  peritonei is
• Consultant ward round
• Its sounds really good, but Ive heard they only
  let Oxbridge graduates and intercalated/distinctio
  n students in. Medical Student
• Thats ridiculous, F1s need to be learning
  skills.
• - Specialist Registrar

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and The Ugly.

• Just Plain Wrong
• I suppose thats one way to beat the MTAS
  system.
• Medical students
• Its a good way to guarantee the job you want at
  ST1.
• - SHO
• I dont know how you can torture those tiny
  baby animals F1

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Further Development

• Education, education, education!
• Medical Students
• Junior Drs
• Consultants
• Scientific Community
• Academic placements for those without experience
• Engaging medical students
• Relationship between AFP and ACF