The Foundation Programme is designed to give you the opportunity to access a wide range of specialty placements. The placements you can undertake will depend on how F2 allocations are made in your foundation school. Placements will be combined carefully to provide you with the ability to gain the required F2 competencies.
By the time you enter the second foundation year all of your clinical experience as a doctor will have been in a secondary care setting.
A placement in general practice will provide an opportunity for you to care for patients in a very different environment: their own communities. You may also wish to consider an academic clinical attachment, which will give you hands-on experience of general practice from a research perspective. You can do this as a four-month attachment to an academic department as part of your programme, or apply for a fully integrated one or two-year clinical and research placement.
Foundation Year 1
Specialty Training for General Practice
Certificate of Completion of Training
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