Standalone F2 posts... Need Advice - South Thames Foundation School

**cpe03** · 06-03-2009, 12:53 AM

Hi

Am in South Thames Foundation School, and have been allocated a 2-year post at East Kent Hospitals, Margate for F1/F2.

My partner and I own a flat in London, and so 2 years away is a really awful prospect.

Have toyed with withdrawing, taking a year out, and reapplying in 2010, but of course this has its downsides. The medical school has discouraged me from doing this. After 6 years, all I want to do is work as a doctor.

Does anyone know about standalone F2 posts after F1? Clearly, I'd want to try and get out of Margate after F1. What is the availability of these?

**yazoo** · 06-03-2009, 01:32 AM

People will always get sick, have babies, resign etc. So if you are a good applicant, perform ok at FY1 etc it's probably possible. Your Foundation School will need to agree the transfer, so finding out how this works (informally) is a good place to start. Nobody will have any post numbers for months (probably more than 12!).

**yazoo** · 06-03-2009, 01:34 AM

Oh, and you will probably only have access to the "unpopular" rotations that are left over after internal allocation.

**cpe03** · 06-03-2009, 02:05 AM

Ye... to be honest, I think I got the least popular one in the whole School as it stands...

**yazoo** · 06-03-2009, 02:25 AM

My worst FY1 job was my most fun! You never can tell...

**Hany** · 18-03-2009, 02:25 AM

what about taking it a step further and doing a stand alone F1 followed by a standalone F2?

**Boadicea** · 06-10-2009, 03:06 PM

cpe03, I too have been allocated the East Kent F2 and am dreading having to commute from Kent. When applying for the job you are told to chose a prefered hospital (Ashford, Canterbury, Margate) then rank the jobs. I have chose Ashford as it is the closest (crap jobs), but am really dreding it. So, I would be interested in any info regarding F2 stand alone posts. There were F2 posts advertised on the STFS website when I started my F1.... so fingers crossed.