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The latest news for the Improving Selection to the Foundation Programme Project can be seen below

SJT pilots have taken place in seventeen UK and two non-UK medical schools between October 2010 and April 2011, involving over 1000 students. The data from the pilots is currently being analysed and the SJT report will be submitted to the Department of Health in August 2011. We would like to thank all students who took part in the pilots.

Three additional medical schools have signed up to take part in the SJT pilots
10 March 2011 

Three additional schools - Birmingham, Newcastle and UCL - have agreed to take part in the spring SJT pilots. Final year medical students at these schools are encouraged to come along and take the SJT. This will provide students with an excellent opportunity to experience this type of selection which they may encounter for real during specialty selection - particulary GP training.

Workshops about the pilots to be held at pilot schools
14 February 2011 

Workshops for final year medical students will be held at those schools involved in the spring 2011 Situational Judgement Test pilots. If you are a final year medical student at one of these schools please come along to hear more about the project and information on the pilots.

• Barts and The London, 16 February, 5pm
• Liverpool, 21 February, 1pm
• Norwich (UEA), 21 February, 4pm
• Lancaster, 22 February, 10am
• Imperial, 22 February, 12noon
• Nottingham, 4 March, 1pm
• Manchester 10 March and 5 April, 5.30pm
• Brighton and Sussex, 14 March, 9am
• Glasgow, 21 March, 11am
• Peninsula, TBC

Professor Paul O'Neill writes to all medical students
8 February 2011 

Professor Paul O'Neill, Chair of the ISFP Project, has written to all medical students to give them a project update and encourage them to tell us what they think.

The letter is now available to download:

Letter to Medical Student Update 8.2.11

Please forward this on to anyone you think may be interested.

Spring pilot schools announced
27 January 2011 

The medical schools participating in the spring 2011 SJT pilots have now been announced. They are:

Barts and the London
Brighton and Sussex
Glasgow
Imperial
Lancaster
Liverpool
Manchester
Nottingham
Peninsula
UEA

Final year medical students at these schools are encouraged to take part in the pilot both to gain experience of SJTs and to help shape the new selection process. Workshops for students will also be held at these schools before the pilot to provide some background information on the project and to answer any questions students may have. These medical schools will be in contact with eligible students soon.

Initial SJT pilots now completed
30 November 2010 

The initial SJT pilots have now all taken place. Final year medical students at Cambridge, Cardiff, Keele and Sheffield Medical Schools took the SJT answering 65 questions in 2 hours during October and November. Students were them given feedback on some of the items featured in the test. Feedback was generally positive and this, combined with the analysis of the SJT answers, will help inform a larger scale pilot in selected medical schools in spring 2011. The schools involved in the spring pilots will be announced shortly.

SJT pilot schools announced
21 September 2010 

The medical schools participating in the autumn 2010 SJT pilots have now been announced. Cardiff Medical School will be running a pilot on 21 October, and Cambridge and Keele Medical Schools will run the pilot on 19 November. Only final year medical students will be eligible to take part and information will be sent to those students by the medical school. Final year medical students at these schools are strongly advised to take part to help ensure the pilots are robust and to gain experience and feedback of SJTs.

Video podcast now available 
16 September 2010 

A video podcast between Professor Paul O'Neill, Chair of the project, and Nick Deakin, medical student representative, is now available and can be watched via YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PuenDI1GvE. The video podcast provides information on the proposed system and all your questions answered.

ISFP Handbook for medical students 
13 September 2010 

A 2010 Handbook has been produced for all UK medical students which outlines why the project is being carried out, the proposed systems and the benefits of this, information on the pilots and how they can get involved and feedback any comments to us.

This is now available to download:

ISFP Handbook 2010

Other useful documents for medical students can be found on the students page.

Personal Attributes Survey 
10 June 2010 

The survey can be accessed from: www.isfp.org.uk/Pages/Professional-Attributes-Survey.aspx

Video podcast - calling all Manchester medical students
4 June 2010 

Do you have any burning questions about the ISFP project that you still do not know the answer to? Professor Paul O'Neil, Chair of the ISFP Project Group, and Nick Deakin, BMA MSC co-chair, will be filming a video podcast and are inviting students to ask questions about the project. These will then be answered in the podcast. Students who would like to be involved will need to be available between 10-11am on Wednesday 7 July in Manchester to be filmed asking their question. For more information, or to get involved, please contact Amy Stringer on 020 7419 5427 or amy.stringer@medschools.ac.uk

e-Bulletin
27 May 2010 

The e-Bulletin sign up function is now available. Updates will be sent to subscribers throughout key stages of the project. To subscribe visit the e-bulletin page

Micropilots
28 April 2010 

Micropilots have now been held at 4 UK medical schools - Cambridge, Sheffield, UEA and Manchester. The overall feedback from the 'focus group' style workshops has been positive. The report from the micropilots will be available on the ISFP website in due course.