Foundation Recruitment

If you have a caring responsibility or a medical condition which restricts you to a particular location, you may be eligible to apply for pre-allocation to a specific Foundation School.

However, due to the limited number of placements available, it's not possible to be pre-allocated to a specific area or hospital within this Foundation School's remit.

Please refer to the Applicants' Handbook for further information.

Linked applications offer placements within the catchment area of the Foundation School but we can't guarantee that you and your partner will be placed in the same hospital or city.

Linked applications will only be honoured if:

• All the information required is provided on both your forms
• Neither you nor the other individual has been pre-allocated on the grounds of special circumstances
• You both score highly enough to be on the primary list
• You have ranked the UoAs in the same order of preference
• Neither you nor the individual has accepted an AFP offer
• There are two places available in a UoA when it is your turn to be allocated based on the lower of both scores.

There is no option to un-link an application under any circumstances once it has been linked to another applicant.

For further information on linked applications please refer to the Applicants' Handbook.

As part of your application to individual Academic Units of Application (UoA) it is likely that you will be asked to provide more information about additional educational achievements. The AUoA may also refer to your EPM decile score when considering your application. 
 
Applications will have a maximum score of 100 points and this will consist of two components:
1. Educational Performance Measure (EPM) - 50 points maximum
2. SJT (selection assessment for FP 2014) - 50 points maximum
 
The EPM comprises two elements: medical school performance and educational achievements. A maximum of 50 points is available.
 
Your medical school performance score will be calculated by your medical school, which will divide your year group into 10 equal groups (deciles) based on performance in a number of assessments. Each UK medical school has agreed with its students which assessments will be included in this measure. This element of the EPM is known as the EPM decile score. 
 
If you are in the first decile (the top 10% of your year), you will receive a score of 43; if you are in the second decile your score will be 42; the third decile 41 and so on. Students in the tenth decile will be awarded 34 points.
 
If you are graduating from a UK medical school, these scores will be supplied by your medical school and uploaded into the system.
 
Each Academic Unit of Application will undertake its own short-listing and will invite short-listed applicants to attend an interview. 
 
Following interviews, each AUoA will allocate a score for each interviewed applicant. This AUoA specific score will be added to your EPM score to provide your overall ranking score for your AFP application. The highest scoring AFP applicants (AUoA score + EPM score) will receive offers.
 
Although your SJT score will not be used to calculate your AFP ranking score for the purposes of AFP offers, all AFP offers are subject to a satisfactory SJT score. This means that you are not withdrawn from the national process due to an exceptionally low SJT score.
  
More detail can be found in the Applicants’ Handbook. 

EAFS Score Distribution

This chart shows scoring bands for 2014 applicants allocated to EAFS in 2014.

The totals comprise EPM (Educational Performance Measure) and the SJT (Situational Judgement Test) scores.

The cut off score for allocation to EAFS in 2014 was 72.8