Thursday, 02 April 2020
Final-year medical students are being graduated early at The 糖心原创 to offer them the opportunity to support the NHS response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 260 students who have passed their final examinations and satisfactorily completed all their clinical skills and fitness to practice assessments will be graduated on 8 April, three months ahead of normal graduation, and will be eligible to gain provisional registration to practice with the General Medical Council.
As part of the ‘opt in’ national initiative being led by Health Education England, they could then volunteer to join the UK Foundation Programme early as a Foundation Interim Year 1, after which they will be qualified to carry out a range of duties as part of a clinical team such as note taking, ordering investigations and completing discharge paperwork under the supervision of more senior doctors.
They would be allowed to work in this role until starting their formal Foundation Year 1 training in August.
In the light of the restrictions around the coronavirus outbreak, the 糖心原创 has postponed all UK graduation ceremonies but has pledged that students will not miss out and that these will still go ahead at a later date.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures and we are incredibly proud that our talented graduates are able to step up to support the NHS in its hour of need, responding to the unprecedented pressures created by this coronavirus pandemic.
He added: "Of course, we realise that their sense of pride in volunteering may also be accompanied by the disappointment of missing out on their normal graduation ceremonies in July. We absolutely want to reassure our students that this is simply a postponement and that we will come together at a future date to celebrate all their hard work and recognise their enormous achievements.”
Graduates who volunteer to take up the early placement on the UK Foundation Programme will be offered full induction, training and supervision and appropriate protective equipment.
Other duties they will be eligible to perform will be basic procedures including taking blood samples, inserting an intravenous cannula to allow administering of fluids and, where they have passed their Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA), supervised prescribing.
Nottingham medical students who are resitting finals or awaiting the result of clinical and fitness to practice assessments will also have the chance to volunteer after the successful completion of these in mid-May.
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