All references used throughout the UKFP Curriculum 2021 (2026 Revision) are listed on this webpage.
Careers
– MDRS Careers Strategy 2021 (COPMeD – listed on their ‘Strategies, policies and guidance’ webpage)
– Career planning – foundation trainee doctors (elfh)
– Careers (UKFPO)
Diversity
Feedback and assessment
– Improving feedback and reflection to improve learning a practical guide for trainees and trainers (AoMRC)
– Giving feedback (UKFPO)
– Value of supervised learning events in predicting doctors in difficulty (ASME publications) [“There is strong evidence that they provide valid confirmation of the acquisition of clinical skills, communication skills and theoretical knowledge” – UK FP Curriculum]
– 360 degree assessment (multisource feedback) of UK trainee doctors: Field testing of team assessment of behaviours (TAB) (Medical Teacher)
– How ratings vary by staff group in multi-source feedback assessment of junior doctors (ASME publications)
– Absences from training in the Foundation Programme (GMC position statement – June 2013) [ARCP checklist “Completion of 12 months’ (WTE) training (taking account of allowable absence)” requirement – UK FP Curriculum]
GMC standards for doctors, education and training
– Generic professional capabilities framework
– Outcomes for provisionally registered doctors
– Promoting excellence (Standards for medical education and training)
– Welcomed and valued (Supporting disabled learners in medical education and training)
Guide for foundation and specialty training in the UK
– Gold Guide (Reference Guide for Postgraduate Foundation and Specialty Training in the UK)
Leadership and QI
– Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM)
– Medical Leadership Curriculum (NHS Leadership Academy and AoMRC)
– Sustainability and quality improvement (UKFPO)
– Training for better outcomes – Developing quality improvement into practice (AOMRC)
Patient care standards
– NHS Patient Safety Syllabus training programme (elfh)
– Essential Pain Management (EPM) UK (Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists)
– Ethical hub – Adult safeguarding (GMC)
– Ambitions for palliative and end of life care (NHS England)
Prescribing safety
– Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA)
– PSA (UKFPO)
– SCRIPT eLearning (UKFPO)
– Causes of prescribing errors by foundation trainees in relation to their medical education (GMC)
– The state of medical education and practice in the UK report: 2014 (GMC)
– Be prepared: are new doctors safe to practise? (a report from the GMC on the PSA website)
Reflection
– The reflective practitioner (GMC)
– Reflection (UKFPO)
Role of the doctor
– Role of the doctor consensus statement (Medical Schools Council)
Supervision
– Enhancing supervision (NHS England (NHSE))
– Recognition and approval of trainers (Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency (NIMDTA))
– Recognition of Trainers (RoT) (Scotland Deanery)
– Medical trainer support (Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW))
– Medical Education Leaders (UK) Resources
– Approval of trainers (GMC)
– The clinical supervisor (UKFPO)
– The educational supervisor (UKFPO)