PROGRAMMES ENDING JULY 2010

Trusts should review the attainment of F2 competency for each trainee by mid June.  The Educational Supervisor (ES) should meet with their trainee and review their portfolio.  The ES can then recommend to the Trust Foundation Programme Director (FPD) that the trainee be signed-off.  If the ES has any concerns, s/he should discuss with the Foundation Programme Director whether a recommendation for sign-off can be made.  At the same time, the ES or FPD should notify the trainee, in writing, of any concerns.  If the ES and FPD agree the trainee cannot be recommended for sign-off, the FPD should contact the Foundation School Director to discuss the trainee concerned and provide evidence as to why the trainee cannot be signed-off.

NB:  Whilst the meeting to determine sign-off can take place from mid June, in order to meet the requirements of some medical schools/deaneries, trainees should NOT be signed-off before 1 July.

Educational Supervisors should use the ‘Evidence required to sign off Attainment of F2 Competency form’ (see page 3) when deciding whether a trainee can be signed-off.  Completion of this form is mandatory.

Although trainees are signed-off in early July, this sign-off is provisional and subject to continued satisfactory performance and attendance until the end of their F1 programme.

The outcomes of Foundation Programme assessment are as follows. 

·         Foundation doctors in F2

The foundation doctor will need to provide evidence, from the in-work and other assessment methods described in the curriculum document, that they have demonstrated the F2 competences through assessment. The assessment process at the end of F2 will need to confirm that the identified competences have been met. The Foundation Achievement of Competency Document (FACD) will be signed off at the end of F2 for foundation doctors who satisfactorily complete the F2 year.

Operational Framework para 188, page 51 Operational Framework 2009 entry

NUMBER OF ASSESSMENTS TO BE COMPLETED:

It is a requirement that a minimum of 6 DOPS, 6 Mini-CEX, 6 CbD and 2 Mini-PAT assessments have been completed during F2.  The deadline for completion of assessments is Friday 11 June 2010.

PROCESS:

The ‘End of placement final review form’ should be completed at the end of each 3 or 4 month placement within the F2 year.  These forms will need to be used as evidence when the Evidence required to sign off Attainment of F2 Competency and Foundation Achievement of Competency Document (FACD) is completed at the end of the F2 year.

Educational Supervisors should use the ‘Evidence required to sign off Attainment of F2 Competency form’ (see page 3) when deciding whether a trainee can be signed-off.  Completion of this form is mandatory.

The ‘Foundation Achievement of Competency Document’ (available from the e-portfolio) should be completed within the Trust and sent to Clare Moorcroft, Foundation School Manager, BY MONDAY 5 JULY 2010.  Copies of this should be retained by the Trainee and the Trust.

NB: Although trainees are signed-off in early July, this sign-off is provisional and subject to continued satisfactory performance and attendance until the end of their F2 programme.

KEY DATES:

11 June 2010                 Deadline for completion of assessments

1 July 2010                    Trusts may begin signing off trainees (forms may be post-dated)

5 July 2010                    Deanery deadline for submission of:

Evidence required to sign off Attainment of F2 Competency form
Foundation Achievement of Competency Document (5.2 form)

4 August 2010               ST1 start date