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Nick Raine-Fenning
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 Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: MMV Interview information |
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Interviews
Applicants may be invited to up to four interviews between 28 February and 13 April.
Check the deanery interview schedule for your potential dates and make sure your employers know. This is naturally going to be a busy time for all involved, so please plan ahead, allow plenty of time to get to your interviews and help to ensure continuity of service by liaising with your colleagues.
Booking interviews
If you are invited to an interview taking place between 28 February – 2 March, you must book your interview place online by 17.00 (GMT) on Tuesday 27 February, if you wish to attend. If you are invited to an interview which takes place after 2 March, you must to book your interview place online by 12.00 noon (GMT) on Friday 2 March.
Visit the Medical Training Application Service if you need technical help.
If you encounter problems with booking interview slots, you should contact the relevant UoA. Contact details for UoAs can be found on the MTAS website.
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Nick Raine-Fenning
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Documents for interviews
MTAS application ID number (this will be provided when you book your interview place(s))
Original proof of identity, eg. passport or other official photo ID (original plus two copies)
Two recent, passport-type photographs
Your GMC certificate (original plus two copies)
Evidence of all qualifications listed on your application form, including official translations if the original is not in English (original plus two copies)
Verified evidence of competences cited on your application form (original plus two copies
Evidence of educationally-approved posts as cited on your application form for ST2 and above* (original plus two copies)
Evidence of eligibility to take up employment in the UK , including evidence of immigration status if a non- UK/EEA applicant, or appropriate passport, birth certificate or naturalisation papers for UK/EE applicants (original plus two copies)
Signed/verified references where available (original plus two copies)
IMPORTANT: If you absolutely cannot bring the original documents where required, you must bring a notarised copy with you, certified appropriately by a public notary - most solicitors’ practices have someone who can do this.
Finally, the Unit of Application (UoA) may require you to bring documents in addition to those listed above. If this is the case, you will be contacted and notified of this by the UoA when you have booked your interview place.
* If you are applying at ST2 or above, PMETB have specified that: “Before entering into the application process, doctors should be clear about whether or not their previous UK posts were educationally approved and, if they were, provide documentary evidence of this with their application. Acceptable evidence would be letters of appointment to a training post or a training rotation from the relevant hospital, Trust or postgraduate dean.”
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Proof of competences
For applications to ST1
If you are applying straight from the Foundation Programme, you will already be familiar with the concept of keeping a portfolio (or collection) of evidence of your progression through the programme. You will be able to use this as evidence of having achieved the Foundation Programme competences.
Those who are not applying direct from the Foundation Programme, will need to compile a folder of evidence that proves they have acquired foundation competences. This is likely to include such things as those mentioned below for applicants to ST2 and above.
For applications to ST2 and above
Those who are applying at ST2 and beyond will need to consider other ways to provide evidence of having achieved foundation and other required competences. This could include such things as shown below (these are simply examples and should not be taken as an exhaustive list):
Log book of clinical activity
Trainers' reports
Audits
Written workplace assessments, eg mini-PAT, mini-CEX, CbD, DOPs.
For more specific advice, visit the RCOG Website.
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Nick Raine-Fenning
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A letter from our President to all applying through the MTAS System to train in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
2 March 2007
| Quote: | Dear Colleagues
Firstly I want to congratulate those of you who have been successful so far in the first round. We all wish you well with the interviews. We really hope you find a place in our career pathway.
For those of you who have not been selected or not yet heard, there is much to say. The first thing to say is please do not despair. We are aware that you are far from alone and that there are many able young doctors who have not been selected in the first round, often to the considerable surprise and concern of their supervisors and consultants. We are sorry you have been unsuccessful so far and we really want to encourage and help you to be successful in the second round. Those of you with the ability and desire should stick with it and look to entry at the next opportunity, now that we know that selection has been less effective than expected.
Careful reassessment of how to approach the questions may be required. The College will be briefing Regional Advisers to offer advice on how best to approach these apparently simple but demanding questions.
No system of selection is perfect at this stage, but we must strive to work with MTAS and the authors of this system to make it as fair as possible. As it stands at present we feel the system may have problems with its power to discriminate, although it is clear that the numbers that assessors had to deal with was also relevant. We have had much feedback from colleagues and trainees. Those selected for interviews are obviously content, while those not selected are frequently frustrated, angry and disillusioned.
To be accepted into a specialty a trainee needs determination, qualifications, attitude and aptitude. The system devised is a start in this respect but obviously needs improvement. From the many comments forwarded to us, we are distilling the most significant and will inform MMC as to the changes we feel should be considered and implemented for the second round.
Many of our Fellows and Members are frustrated too. They have invested much time and effort in the selection process, and although some are content that the new system is capable of selecting the best trainees, many strongly believe that there are serious flaws that need to be addressed.
Be assured that I and my colleagues in the College will be doing everything to ensure that the best, most appropriate trainees, get the opportunity to follow their chosen career. Please stick with your desire to do Obstetrics and Gynaecology and to pursue a career in Women’s Health, and we will look to a more successful second round, when we will also try to get clarity on the number of training slots available.
Yours sincerely
Professor Allan Templeton
President |
And a comment from Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, theVice President of Education
| Quote: | Dear Fellows and Members
There is dissatisfaction about the selection process by MTAS. We are in constant dialogue with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to improve the system and to find answers for the queries raised by many trainees, Fellows and Members. In the meantime I would like you to disseminate the information given by our President to all your trainees. |
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