Latest Guidance for Applicants - issued 16 May 2007
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Latest Guidance for Applicants - issued 16 May 2007
Published: 16 May 2007 By: MMC
We want to keep you up to date with the latest accurate information on the junior doctor recruitment process. It is particularly important to let you know that the process as implemented thus far, including the results of interviews, will stand.
Ongoing recruitment process
Following the recommendations of the Review Group chaired by Professor Neil Douglas, eligible applicants for postgraduate medical training have now been offered at least one interview for their first preference post. An additional 15,500 interviews have therefore been arranged as part of Round 1 and are now taking place. All interviews that candidates have had will count. We are very grateful to consultants, deanery and NHS Trust staff for their role in this process. We are also grateful for the patience and understanding of trainees during this process.
The Review Group met again on 9th May and considered the process of offering posts to candidates who are successful in their Round 1 applications. The group agreed that offers for the current round will be managed locally by individual deaneries, on the basis of published MMC guidance. Particular points you will want to know about the current process are:
• Offers will be made to successful candidates. Subject to the outcome of the current Judicial Review, the first offers for specialties (other than GP which have already been made) in England will be made on or after 21 May 2007, with all initial offers made by early June.
• If successful at interview, some candidates will receive more than one offer. This process of making offers will continue during June 2007, at which time Round 1 will close, ensuring that candidates and employers have some time to prepare for appointments commencing on 1 August 2007.
• Given the continuing concerns of junior doctors about MTAS, it will not be used for matching candidates to training posts, but will continue to be used by deaneries to monitor and support the filling of training posts across the country.
• As we have stressed before, not all training posts will be filled in the current round and there will therefore be further substantial opportunities for those who are not initially successful.
• The Review Group has agreed that this further recruitment will be locally planned and managed by the deaneries in line with national MMC principles. An announcement of the process for the next round will be made shortly.
• Deaneries are continuing to work with the NHS and the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board to establish what additional training posts will be made available after Round 1, beyond the 23,000 training posts already available across the UK.
