Foundation Year 2

Foundation Year 2 will include another 5-day taster in a specialty of your choice. You may contact the Foundation Programme Office to be able to organise this for you. Please advise us well ahead of your intended taster so that we will be able to organise this for you. You are entitled to 5 days study leave for this taster experience. You may see the taster specialty timetables here.

The following Training days will be organised during Foundation Year 2:

ALS training (2 days)

A&E training day (1 day)

Clinical Skills and Simulation Training: Lead Dr Josef Micallef (afternoon sessions)

Career day - Windmills: Lead Dr Pierre Ellul (1 day)

A Generic Teaching Programme will be delivered every Friday from 13.00. This time is protected time, meaning that the trainees are excused from performing clinical work during this time. Emergency work should still continue, and doctors on-call will cover for emergency work. An attendance of at least 70% of these teaching sessions is mandatory.

Each trainee will be assigned an Educational Supervisor for the second year. Regular meetings with the Educational Supervisor will be organized throughout the training.

The trainees are to perform the following minimum number of Supervised Learning Events (SLEs) in Foundation Year 2:

6 Case-based discussions (CbD)

6 Mini Clinical Evaluation Encounters (Mini-CEX)

3 Directly Observed Procedural Skills (DOPS) - procedures are not those listed in the logbook

1 Developing the clinical teacher assessment form

As part of their assessment of progression, trainees need to send out two Multi-Source Feedback (MSF) to at least 10 colleagues. This is part of the Team Assessment of Behavoiur (TAB) which provides insightful information for discussion between the trainee and their Educational Supervisor during appraisal meetings. The MSF-TAB typically should be sent out in the first and third quarter of the programme.

See also Minimum requirements for satisfactory completion of the Foundation Programme.