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If you are a medical student feeling despondent about the news from the UKFPO about points for FP applications please remember that in the long term your foundation program choice doesn't really affect your career. Honestly.
If you are desperate for a particular specialty it doesn't really matter if you don't get it in the foundation program. Lots of people do clinical fellow jobs and taster weeks exisit.
If you are desperate for a particular location in the long term, again you can nearly always move back their post FY2.
I get it. We're competitive people. If you give us a list of criteria to achieve to get points we will do all we can to get them.
We're the subset of people who at the age of 17 decided to stay indoors and study so we could go to medical school.
We're the subset of people who at the age of 17 decided to stay indoors and study so we could go to medical school.
And you've probably spent all of medical school aiming to do things to get points for your FP application. And now you feel you've wasted that time.
It's an awful feeling that you've had the rug pulled beneath your feet. I get that as well. But research projects and degrees aren't a waste of time if you don't get points.
They are relevant to future job applications. Especially for academic posts. I found it difficult to get PhD funding because I hadn't got an intercalated BSc - when was 30 and had MRCP.
I managed it anyway. Just took a different route.
And also they are worth doing in themselves because they are interesting and give you some useful transferable skills.
You're in a better place to get a graduate job than many of your non-medic peers. The Foundation program job is as close to guaranteed employment as anyone gets.
But this sliver lining doesn’t change the fact that many medical students feel cheated.
And there’s lots of students who have family / caring reasons to stay on one area.
And there’s lots of students who have family / caring reasons to stay on one area.
