Foundation Year 1
Foundation Year 1 trainees started training on the 5th July 2010. The first week will be an Induction and Shadowing week. The timetable for this week can be found here. The induction handbook called The Perfect House Officer Guide v2.0 can be donloaded here.
A new curriculum has been published for this year by the United Kingdom Foundation Programme Office (UKFPO). Foundation year 1 doctors are expected to follow the new Curriculum which can be dowloaded here by kind permission of the UKFPO.
Similarly, the Operational Framework which we were using for 2009 has been updated by the UKFPO and is now called the Reference Manual (UK version). We have adapted this to our local Foundation School (again by kind permission of the UKFPO) and this can be downloaded here.
The key changes which have been adopted in the new Curriculum and Reference Guide can be seen here.
A 5-day taster can be organised in a specialty of your choice . You may contact the Foundation Programme Office to be able to organise a taster in the specialty of your choice. 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 can see the taster specialty timetables here.
A Generic Teaching Programme will be delivered every Friday from 13.30. 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. The provisional Generic Teaching Programme can be downloaded here. An attendance of at least 70% of these teaching sessions is mandatory.
Immediate Life Support teaching day. (Basic Life Support - BLS- is a prerequisite for Foundation Year 1 and trainees who intend to join the Malta Foundation Programme are advised to attend a recognised BLS course prior to joining)
Clinical Skills and Simulation Training (Lead by Dr Josef Micallef, UK trainers will also be helping to organise this)
Each trainee will be assigned an Educational Supervisor for one year, who will change for the second year. Regular meetings with the Educational Supervisor will be organised throughout the training.
The trainees are to perform the following minimum number of Assessments in Foundation Year 1:
6 Case-based discussions (CbD)
6 Mini Clinical Evaluation Encounters (Mini-CEX)
6 Directly Observed Procedural Skills (DOPS)
2 Multi-Source Feedback (MSF)