References

References are collected on behalf of employers as part of pre-employment check processes. Offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references.

You must provide details of one academic referee from your medical school. Your referee does not have to be the most senior person in an organisation; it is more important that they are able to comment on your performance. A reference form takes approximately five minutes for a referee to complete.

It is important that you ask your referee if they are happy to provide a reference for you before you complete this section, and ask that they provide you with an email address that they access regularly.

You are responsible for ensuring that your reference is provided to your employer before you start work as a foundation doctor. A contract of employment will not be issued until a satisfactory reference has been received.

Your referee must be from your medical school. This might be a professor, lecturer, reader, director of clinical studies or a person holding an honorary contract as advised by your medical school.

The referee should have ideally known you for one year; or a minimum of six months, and should be aware of your performance during all years spent at the medical school.

It is important that you ask your referee if they are happy to provide a reference for you before you complete this section, and ask that they provide you with an email address that they access regularly.

We advise that email addresses are double checked with referees before entry on to Oriel to ensure there are no discrepancies.

Referees do not need an Oriel account. They will access the reference request via a link sent to their email and are advised to check their spam folders regularly.

References will be collected later on during the allocation process.

Should your referee require assistance completing the reference, guidance is available on the Information for referees webpage.

If your referee does not submit your reference on Oriel within the reference window (refer to application timeline), your employing organisation will contact you before you start work to arrange for the missing reference to be provided offline, via email.

You can change your referee details on Oriel, even after you have submitted your application, and up until the reference period is closed, or until the referee has submitted a reference; whichever comes first.

1) Go to ‘References’ in your dashboard menu bar.

2) You will be presented with the the details of your referee. Select the ‘update references’ button.

3) Edit the referee details that you wish to amend and click on the ‘Save’ button which is on the right hand corner of the screen.