Information can be found on the foundation programme website:  http://www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk

All applications will be processed using an online system hosted through the UKFPO website (http://www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk).  The application process is in two parts:

• Applicants rank all Foundation SCHOOLS.
• Application forms are scored by the first ranked School.  This score is added to the academic score from the university.  Applicants will then be ranked until or unless that number matches the number of vacancies within the school.
• A second 'matching' process allocates applicants matched to the school in round one, to the F1 programmes within the school. 
  In NYEC Foundation School this involves face to face interviews, and it these scores alone which determine priority for allocation to specific programmes.
• If you are a non-UK graduate application is also through MTAS, but you MUST meet the eligibility criteria - www.mtas.nhs.uk

NYEC Foundation School has an agreed progression scheme.  All doctors recruited through the MTAS matching scheme are guaranteed a two year programme (subject to adherence to school regulations and satisfactory assessment and appraisal).  This will follow the principles laid out in the MMC guidelines.  More details can be found here.  In August 2007, (ie for F1s who started in August 2006), the school will run an online collaborative matching scheme.  It is anticipated that this scheme will run for at least the next three years as the number of F1 and F2 programmes expands.

NYEC Foundation School currently has a small number of programmes in F2 which are not matched with F1.  This is to allow direct entry for doctors who are exempt from F1 (as determined by the GMC), but who are not yet eligible to apply for Specialty Training (ST or FTSTA).

Appointment will be by competitive application and selection.  These programmes will be advertised in the BMJ and on the NYEC and Deanery web sites.

Foundation Training is designed to have a synchronised start in August each year.  Occasionally there are opportunities for programmes which fall vacant for part of a year.  These may arise for a variety of reasons.

• Appointments to any F1 part year programmes WILL NOT allow an applicant to reach completion of F1 competency.  Such appointees WILL NOT be granted progression into F2 within NYEC, and will need to apply in open competition for a full F1 programme, or possibly an F2 programme subject to them meeting the entry criteria for F2.
• Appointments to any F2 part year programmes MAY allow an applicant to reach completion of F2 competency, dependent on prior F2 experience, the duration of the appointment and satisfactory assessments and appraisals.

All such appointments will be by competitive application and selection.  These programmes will be advertised in the BMJ and on the NYEC and Deanery web sites.