![]() ![]() New Zealand and South Africa remain options. This makes an FY2 year here impossible unless you hold Australian citizenship. Note that due to Australian immigration laws, you can currently only work in Australia after two years of employment. In 2019 only Wessex, Severn and Peninsula advertised an allowance for FY2 training abroad. If you are interested, it is best to make your enquiries early with your Foundation School Director, as there is considerable variation across schools. If you’re still considering it, information regarding the requirements for time out at this stage can be found on the GMC and UKFP websites.īetween FY1 and FY2 / Some Foundation Schools will support time out between FY1 and FY2, or accredit an FY2 year abroad. In other words, you are not eligible to practice medicine independently or outside your place of supervised employment. In addition, whilst you have graduated with a medical degree, until you’ve completed your first year of the Foundation Programme, you are only registered in a provisional context by the GMC. The transition from student to FY1 is a steep and often daunting learning curve, and one best travelled with the support of your peers. The support of your Medical School during the Foundation Programme application process is invaluable. When to take time out?īefore Foundation / Unless there is an opportunity that will not wait, it’s not advisable to delay the move from medical school into Foundation Training. If you’re organised and motivated, it’s very easy to ensure the answer to this question is a firm ‘yes’. The British Medical Association proposes that the key question to ask yourself is, ‘will you be better equipped at the end of your time out than at the beginning?’. Not to mention the (very valid) reasons of travel and adventure for their own sakes. ![]() Here at Adventure Medic, we feel passionately about the personal and professional benefits to be gained by taking time out from medical training in the UK – whether your motivation is to broaden your clinical exposure, to experience developing world medicine, to resolve specialty or career indecision, to pursue personal interests, or even just to exercise some autonomy over your work and professional development. More doctors are taking a break from training after Foundation Programme. There has been a culture shift with many colleges now actively supporting opportunities around the traditional training pathway. Later career breaks have also become more common, with Health Education England stating that this should be expected and recognised as a normal part of many doctors’ progress. A schematic summarising the changes over the last eight years was published by the BMJ (Figure 1). According to the Foundation Programme survey, numbers entering speciality training directly from the Foundation Programme have continued to fall with only 37.7% of doctors remaining in training in 2018. ![]() The number of doctors requesting certificates of good standing (needed to register with an overseas medical council) was 4,804 in 2016 when the GMC last released data on this. More and more UK doctors are opting to take time out of training in order to pursue medical and personal interests all over the world. Here, we proudly present Adventure Medic’s Updated Guide to Taking Time Out From UK Training. With so many opportunities available for experience around training programmes there can be difficult decisions for junior doctors deciding, if, when and how, to best combine their other interests with their medical career.
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