F1 in Italy ends in february. It's not extremely useful, I don't think it would be like a UK F1 year so I wouldn't mind to retake my F1 in the UK since I don't think it would be a waste of time (but I don't know whether or not I can retake my F1 once I've already done it in Italy). Anyway briefly how do you apply for a F1 spot?
If it ends in Feb we wouldn't consider it equal to ours so you would have to repeat it.
There is a national process for foundation, all are 2 year jobs now (a few years ago some weren't). At some point in the next couple of months you would have to confirm eligibility to apply. As a UK student it's not really something you need to think about, the school mostly takes care of it. I don't think it would be hard to sort out you just need to figure out who to talk to in your school about it.
Either just before or after this you generally register on the system online which just involves entering basic info, name, address etc.
After that a few months later the application form is released and you have a set time to do it in, it used to be a month, now it's about 10 days. The first couple of sections are for things like additional degrees, national presentations, national (first place only) prizes - if you have that stuff you enter the details.
Then there are the white space questions which count for half the points (50) of the whole application. There are 5 questions and you have to answer in either 150 or 200 words, I can't remember. The questions are pretty long. There might be a statement about something - like team working, you then have to use a clinical example to explain why it's important. That might sound easy but each question will have about 5 parts and there will be a lot more to it than that, I just can't really remember. In at least one question there will be a problem, maybe a colleague will have done something wrong, and you will have to say how you would deal with it, again there would be about 5 parts to each question.
The rest of the points come from your quartile - where you rank in your year, your school puts it on the system.
You then rank all the deaneries (areas) in the UK in order of preference.
No-one gets 100, it's not even possible without a PhD which most people don't have. Anything in the high 70s/80s or above was a good score this year, the highest I have heard of is 94. 59 was the minimum to get a job in the first round this year, below that you had to hope people dropped out to get a job.
Results are announced in December I think, online. At this point you get your overall score and find out your deanery. After this, the rest of what happens varies by deanery. Some will make you then rank hospitals and you will be allocated according to your score. Then you would rank individual jobs within an individual hospital. Other deaneries make you rank every job in every hospital in the deanery in preference order which is hundreds.
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