A Quick Guide For Medical Training

This aggregative term stands for Foundation Programme Application System. It is an online system which is used within the UK, to help final year medical students apply for respective training positions. It runs by the UK Foundation Programme Office. To gain a place with the Foundation Programme, you would first need to complete an application form, which is done online. In this form, you will need to answer a number of mandatory application form sections. There are 10 sections in total, in which you will need to fill in the details about your personal information, qualifications, education, references and preferences.

Assuming that you meet the required entry standards, after then you get to be eligible to sit in the Situational Judgement Test. The Situational judgement is a common form of assessment which is used by many employers these days, to ascertain whether a potential employee is the right fit for their organisation or not. This test will evaluate your decision making skills, and will allow potential employers to see whether your code of ethics and values match up with theirs. The majority of situational judgment tests do not contain right or wrong answers. It simply comes down to how an employer assesses the candidate answers against their own behavioral/organizational expectations. However, the FPAS SJT do contains right and wrong answers, along with a specific marking scheme.

The FPAS Situational Judgement Test (FPAS SJT) will provide you with medical based scenarios. These questions will focus on testing your medical principles and ethics, and qualities as well such as professionalism, bedside manner, teamwork and your ability to cope whilst under pressure. In total, there are 70 questions in the examination and the time limit to complete all these questions is 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Like FPAS, SRA stands for the Specialty Recruitment Assessment. It is a computer-based assessment which was introduced by RCR and London Recruitment. SRA consist of two main parts: a Professional Dilemmas or PD paper, followed by a Clinical Problem Solving (CPS) paper. The SRA was originally designed for the applicants to the general practice (GP) training. Hence, the questions are very broad in scope. In part 1 you have to complete 58 in 110 minutes in which 50 of these questions will account towards the final score, as 8 questions in each test are for piloting purposes. This test assesses various core criteria from the ST1 Clinical Radiology including communication skills, conceptual thinking and problem solving, organization / planning, managing others and team involvement etc. The part 2 presents you with the clinical scenarios requiring exercise judgment and problem solving skills to determine appropriate management skills of patients. It contains 97 SRA questions based on Foundation-level clinical practice and test a breadth of knowledge of medicine and surgery.

Thus, we have seen some key details related to medical training and different examinations. You should make a good research about the syllabus before going for any of the examination.

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