A Quick Guide For Medical Training
This aggregative
term FPAS
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 SRA questions
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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