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The Oxford Foundation School (OFS) consists of placements in the five acute trusts within the Oxfordshire Deanery (Oxford, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Heatherwood & Wexham), the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford Health, Oxfordshire PCT (Public Health) and placements in General Practice across the three counties with some placements in surrounding counties.
There are ~450 posts in F1 and F2 in the OFS. All the placements offer a two year integrated programme with experience in a range of acute and non-acute specialties. Most placements involve rotations between at least two trusts and approximately 2/3 rounds of rotations will give some experience in the main teaching hospital (the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust). Some F1 programmes involve 2 x 6 months placements in Medicine and Surgery but trusts have been encouraged to design placements that give 2 x 3 months placements in two different subspecialties to increase breadth of experience. Others are 3 x 4 months. All the F2 programmes are 3 x 4 months.
Once the matching process is completed trainees will be matched to a 2 year programme. We allow trainees to negotiate swaps in the order of placements with others on the same rotations and are piloting an F2 Swap Shop for the first time this year.
Please visit The Foundation Programme for all information relating to Foundation Training.
Dr Anne Edwards Oxford Foundation School