What does it mean?

[ruthandsam]

Please would someone let me know what is meant by a F1 Doctor?

[Ice.Maiden]

It's for student doctors in their first year ruthandsam (F1). The following year they'll be F2.

[theprof]

Err, I think I'd better clarify this as there might be a few people out there who would think that an F1 is still in medical school. There's no such thing as a "student doctor".

Foundation year doctors are newly qualified medical graduates who have to take a programme of training that lasts two years to obtain practical experience of being a doctor along with the competency involved. Most of the time, this training occurs in hospitals although some go directly to work in a GP practice. At the end of the first year, the doctor will become fully registered with the GMC. The doctor will then move on to the second year of Foundation Training, after which he/she will decide to specialise in a particular area of medicine.

An F1 doctor is equivalent to a House Officer under the old system and an F2 is equivalent to a Senior House Officer

[Bazile]

And here is me thinking that it was a medic in F1 racing .

By the way - nice to see you on here again Prof - where have you been - locked away in a lab somewhere ?

[theprof]

Thanks for that Bazile.

Yes, I have spent quite a bit of time locked up in my university labs over the past few months, burning the candle at both ends.

I've also been out to the Hawaiian university where I'm a visiting professor and called in at another slightly more prestigious US university for a few days on the way home to the UK.

Now that the academic year has ended in the UK, I'm putting in some time as a consultant at a high-security MOD research laboratory on a viral biochemistry project.

Life has been pretty hectic lately but at least it keeps me off the streets!