Core Training Programme
Brian Bezdicek
Your eligibility will be reviewed by a central longlisting team. If your application does not meet the entry criteria, you will be informed by email, and your application will not progress any further.
As you progress through your application, you may be required to upload documentation to allow the recruitment team to assess your eligibility. All documentation must be uploaded by the required deadline.
Your employment history must show that your career progression is consistent with your personal circumstances. You must be able to evidence how your present achievements and performance is in proportion to the length of time you have spent in training.
You must have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English. These must be adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues, as assessed by the General Medical Council (GMC). The GMC provides details on accepted evidence of English Language skills. Further information can be found on the GMC website.
You are required to provide evidence of achievement of Foundation competence within the 3 and a half years prior to the intended start date for the post you apply to. These competences are in line with GMC standards and Good Medical Practice and include:
There are 6 ways you can demonstrate that you possess Foundation competence. The application form will ask you a series of questions to help you determine the most appropriate form of evidence for you to submit.
If you are currently on a UKFPO affiliated Foundation programme which is due to finish by the advertised start date you will need to confirm the name of your Foundation School. You do not need to submit any evidence at the time of application.
Any offer of a training programme will be conditional upon successful completion of the Foundation Programme and being awarded a Foundation Programme Certificate of Completion (FPCC) before the advertised start date.
If you have already completed a UK Foundation Programme, you will be asked to confirm that you have been awarded an FPCC, completed no earlier than 3 and a half years prior to the advertised start date. You will be required to upload a copy of your FPCC to your Oriel application at the time of application.
If you are currently in an active clinical or clinical and academic practice in a UK educationally approved training post (CT/ST/LAT or equivalent), holding either a National Training Number (NTN) or Deanery Reference Number (DRN), you will be considered as having had your Foundation competence assessed on entry to your current post. You do not need to demonstrate these again, regardless of when Foundation competences were signed off. You are not required to upload a copy of your FPCC or Alternative Certificate/CREST.
If you are applying for a specialty where you have previously held a NTN or DRN but voluntarily resigned before completion, you can upload evidence of satisfactory progress with training prior to resignation in the form of Annual Review of Competency Progression (ARCP) documentation. This can only occur when the specialty being applied to is the same as the specialty that you were previously training in.
If you do not fall into any of the above categories will be required to submit a Certificate of Readiness to Enter Specialty Training (CREST, 2024 version). This needs to be signed by a consultant who has supervised you for at least 3 months (whole time equivalent and continuous period) in the 3 and a half years prior to the advertised start date for the training programme to which you are applying.
If you are submitting a CREST form with your application, we therefore require at least 24 months' experience in appropriate posts, either in the UK or overseas, since gaining your primary medical qualification and before taking up a specialty training programme.
Many core competences are common across some, but not all, specialty curricula. When moving from one approved training programme to another, competences gained in core, specialty or general practice training should not have to be repeated if already achieved.
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges developed the Accreditation of Transferable Competences Framework (ATCF) to help those who have already achieved competences in one core, specialty or general practice training programme, transfer where appropriate and valid, to another training programme.
The ATCF applies only to those moving between periods of GMC approved training and is aimed at the early years of training. The time to be recognised within the ATCF will need to be reviewed at your first Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP), if appointed.
If you wish to be considered for accreditation of transferable competences, you should indicate this on your application form. It should also be raised with your Training Programme Director or Head of School within the first three months of your CT1 Core Psychiatry, ST1 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, or ST1 Psychiatry of Learning Disability training post. More information can be found on the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' website.
You will be requested to produce valid right to work documents. If you do not have valid right to work documents you will need to apply for Tier 2 or Skilled Worker sponsorship. Further information can be found on the Government website on Skilled Worker Visas.
Medical practitioners are now part of the Shortage Occupation List and the Health and Care visa route is also available to medical and dental practitioners. Information on the Health and Care visa can also be found on the Government website.
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Objective: The aim of this study was to define the core (minimum) competencies required of a specialist in adult intensive care medicine (ICM). This is the second phase of a 3-year project to develop an internationally acceptable competency-based training programme in ICM for Europe (CoBaTrICE).
Methodology: Consensus techniques (modified Delphi and nominal group) were used to enable interested stakeholders (health care professionals, educators, patients and their relatives) to identify and prioritise core competencies. Online and postal surveys were used to generate ideas. A nominal group of 12 clinicians met in plenary session to rate the importance of the competence statements constructed from these suggestions. All materials were presented online for a second round Delphi prior to iterative editorial review.
Results: The initial surveys generated over 5,250 suggestions for competencies from 57 countries. Preliminary editing permitted us to encapsulate these suggestions within 164 competence stems and 5 behavioural themes. For each of these items the nominal group selected the minimum level of expertise required of a safe practitioner at the end of their specialist training, before rating them for importance. Individuals and groups from 29 countries commented on the nominal group output; this informed the editorial review. These combined processes resulted in 102 competence statements, divided into 12 domains.
Conclusion: Using consensus techniques we have generated core competencies which are internationally applicable but still able to accommodate local requirements. This provides the foundation upon which an international competency based training programme for intensive care medicine can be built.
The Core CVA Skills for Programme Staff course is a 5-day (from 9 am to 5 pm) training for technical staff responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring cash and voucher assistance programs. The training is structured around the project cycle and covering all of the key skills required to design, implement and monitor cash transfer programmes.
The key benefit of functional core training is its transfer to day to day life. Functional core training will involve training all the movement patterns within core training, allowing your core to be ready for whatever sport or life throws at you. As we move through our day to day experience we face many different physical movements that we take for granted when we can perform them easily. Training the core will be extremely beneficial to your ability to perform daily tasks with precision and control without even noticing that you are doing so.
In sport we see a lot or dynamic and organic movements that these functional core movements will be perfect to improve your balance and your stability to enable you to deal with these types of movements. This is especially true of contact sports, like judo or rugby. A strong, well rounded core strength will be crucial to dominating opponents in these sporting endeavours.
In order to have a truly functional core, you need to make sure you use your entire core in your training. This will involve training the four key movement patterns of the core, resisting lateral flexion, rotation , resisting rotation , anterior core .
No. Better is hard to define, better than what, better than non-functional core exercises? If an exercise improves your core strength, then it has a function. Using a wide variety of exercises will be to your advantage rather than just focusing on exercises you consider functional. All effective core exercise will create a positive stimulus on the muscles and body.
Yes, typically functional body building, popularised by Marcus Filly and Opex Training includes core training. Every different coach will have their own interpretation of what functional body building is so programmes will differ, but the majority of these training programmes will include core exercises.
Again this depends on your definition of fitness, if you mean your 10k running time then no, but if you mean your bodies general ability to deal with day to day life then yes. Fitness in terms of Crossfit will also likely be improved.
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