MDAP is no more!

**yazoo** · 07-06-2006, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by WAMS

Also, about the fact that you won't be applying to individual jobs, you'll be applying to Foundation Schools. It is then up to the foundation school to put you in a particualr job. How they do this is up to them (indeed some foundation schools will be doing it randomly). eek!

Eek indeed! I wouldn't have thought random allocation would be at all popular - these foundation schools may have applicants applying elsewhere in droves! Indeed it might be worth being noisy about this to try and prevent it from happening. No deanery wants to be really unpopular I would have thought, and I suspect it's still early enough to change their minds.

**DamianUK** · 07-06-2006, 03:06 PM

Yazoo, the foundations school are what the replacement for deaneries are bieng called.

Like now it will be damn difficult to get a job in a different area to the one you train in.

Random allocation is not popular however neither was the early introduction of the MDAP (which lasted a year!).

The thinking is that the foundation posts are training posts in basic skills with continual assesment BEFORE yo ugo into specialist training very early i nyour career...

In reality it means people will be doing jobs they don;t want in areas they dont want.
Oh and you won;t even know what the jobs are before you apply.

Damian

**WAMS** · 07-06-2006, 10:12 PM

Anyone found out what MTAS stands for yet?

**cecilia** · 07-06-2006, 10:46 PM

MTAS stands for Medical Training Application Service.
Have a look at http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidan...cesAndTrainingand put MTAS in the "search box".
You'll get a brief overview of yet another change to be implemented by October 2006!!

**breviz** · 26-06-2006, 09:47 AM

pls kindly inform me of the date the uk final year medical students results will be released nationally.some one said its 29th june?how far?.
thanx

**DamianUK** · 26-06-2006, 09:51 AM

there is no national date, at Warwick they knew a couple of weeks ago.

Some med school knew earlier and some know this week.

Damian

**DrPie** · 26-06-2006, 07:52 PM

I think/hope that it is going to be very very unlikely that jobs will be randomly allocated by the foundation school you apply to, if there is a scoring application process- which evidently is still to remain. Whats the point of scores if the allocation is random? You may as well just list a prefence of foundation schools and cross your fingers....

Its quite frustrating as its seems information is coming out in little bits from different sources. Unfortunately our medical school has told us nothing- but we have a Foundation Fayre on Friday where I hope we will be informed of something.

Im certainly in agreement that the academic component of the application should form a greater percentage.

**WAMS** · 26-06-2006, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by DrPie

I think/hope that it is going to be very very unlikely that jobs will be randomly allocated by the foundation school you apply to, if there is a scoring application process- which evidently is still to remain. Whats the point of scores if the allocation is random? You may as well just list a prefence of foundation schools and cross your fingers....

Its quite frustrating as its seems information is coming out in little bits from different sources. Unfortunately our medical school has told us nothing- but we have a Foundation Fayre on Friday where I hope we will be informed of something.

Im certainly in agreement that the academic component of the application should form a greater percentage.

Whoops, I'd forgotten that I'd wrote that! You're right, the allocation by the foundation schools won't be random. That was a certain medical school giving students the wrong information... even the medical schools don't know what's going on!!!!

**thom5455** · 26-06-2006, 10:42 PM

So what %age of the old foundation programme scoring proccess went on acedemia? It was only about one sixth of the total score wasn't it? Surely this new process is heading in the right direction.