Please see the Applicant Guidance for the 2-year Foundation Programme, which is available on the UKFPO website.
The matching process is the process by which candidates are allocated to a Group and Programme (for definitions of the terms Group and Programme, please click here).
If you have been allocated to Scotland you will be matched to a Group and a Programme, you must remember to preference all groups and programmes.
It is very important that you adhere to the deadlines and are aware of when you will receive information and when you must respond. Any rankings and submissions after the published deadlines will not be honoured.
There is no upgrade system for the Foundation Programme or Foundation Priority Programmes.
The Scottish Foundation School does not allow any 'swaps'.
All of our programmes are balanced educationally and are monitored by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) as part of its quality management processes.
Applicants should not be concerned if they do not secure exactly the Foundation Programme speciality of their choice. The placements in your Foundation Programme will not have a direct bearing on your progression to a specific specialty training programme.
Foundation doctors should ensure that they can demonstrate commitment through other means, for example Tasters, arranging their own observations, meetings with consultants, courses and research.
The UKFPO has produced tables to show the competition ratios for the last four years here.
This page was last updated on: 13.01.2025 at 16.06