COVID-19 pandemic interim Foundation Year 1 post and confidence in core skills and competencies: a longitudinal survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The interim Foundation Year 1 (FiY1) post was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to help bolster the workforce and manage increased clinical pressures. This study aimed to assess the impact of the FiY1 post on medical graduates' self-reported confidence in common tasks, core skills, competencies and procedures prior to starting FY1, as a measure of increasing preparedness for practice.

Setting

A longitudinal survey was performed at a tertiary teaching hospital in the South East of England. FiY1 posts ran from June to July 2020.

Participants

Questionnaires were sent to 122 medical graduates from a single medical school (recipients included FiY1s and non-FiY1s) and to 69 FiY1s at a single Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, irrespective of medical school a

SUBMITTER: Gatti CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9638744 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature