Internal Medicine Training

The Foundation Training Programme is a two year generic training programme offering exposure in a variety of specialties and healthcare settings. As a Foundation doctor at NUH you may be based at either Nottingham City Hospital or Queen’s Medical Centre. Some placements will involve working across both campuses.

Throughout both your FY1 and FY2 year you must be working towards demonstrating all the competencies in the curriculum. Further information can be found on the UKFPO website. Please make sure you familiarise yourself with the 2021 curriculum.

These are the Higher Level Outcomes (HLO’s) of the Foundation Programme and underline the generic nature of the Foundation training. The 3 areas breakdown into the 13 professional capabilities. The Internal Medicine stage 1 is the first stage of training in internal medicine and is a 3-year programme. This involves rotating through various medical specialties, with exciting opportunity to learn new skills and gain new knowledge.
The Internal Medicine programme includes:

• Involvement in Acute Medical Take
• Day to day management of medical in-patients
• Outpatient Clinic attendance
• Rotations in Geriatric Medicine and ITU as mandated
• Simulation including Human Factors and procedural skills teaching in our Clinical Skills Centre.
• Palliative and End of life care.

You will be working towards demonstrating all the competencies in the curriculum.  Further information can be found on the JRCPTB (Joint Royal College of Physicians Training Board) website.

You will have opportunities to develop your leadership skills, decision making skills and will start to prepare you to become a medical specialty trainee.

You will develop your portfolio by attending clinics, attending teaching, delivering teaching, performing procedural skills, attending courses and progressing towards completion of MRCP.

Clinic Attendance is an important training requirement with the Internal Medicine curriculum to include at least 80 clinic attendances within the three years. Time to attend clinics is allocated via the Rota co-ordinators and a list of clinic opportunities can be found on the intranet.