Arcp Checklist Fy2

[Florio Bessinger]

Theinformation on these pages covers the requirements for F1 and F2 doctors who have an ARCP in 2024. It should be used in conjunction with the UKFPO ARCP checklist. The information on these pages serves to provide some clarity and explanation to the document.

The main requirements listed may not apply to Foundation doctors who have had a remedial outcome who will have had specific requirements set by the FPD/APGD. Please contact your FPD for advice if you are out of sync or have had a remedial outcome at the last ARCP.

Please provide your evidence in your completed portfolio by 31st May 2024 in order to give your FPD time to review your evidence before the ARCP which will be held in June. The ARCP will be a desktop exercise and you will not attend. You will receive a notification that your outcome will be issued on Turas after the ARCP. You should then log into your Turas portfolio and acknowledge this. It is essential that you acknowledge your ARCP outcome 1 or 6 also allow your F1CC or FPCC certificate to be created and allow you to download.

If you receive a developmental outcome you will be notified by your FPD and will be invited to a further meeting to discuss what actions are required. For the vast majority of you this will not be relevant.

All Foundation doctors in Scotland follow the Foundation curriculum as detailed on the UKFPO website. Please click here for a link to the UKFPO curriculum resource bank; this includes details about Supervised Learning Events (SLEs), the Placement Supervision Group (PSG) and your summary narrative.

The UKFPO guidance requires 3 CS reports but only 2 ES reports as the ES completes the end of year report instead of a 3rd report as it covers the entire year including post 3. In England the ES remains constant for the whole year hence the discrepancy and in Scotland Foundation doctors normally have 3 CS and 3 ES.

If you have been nominated to complete a Placement Supervision Group (PSG) Individual Feedback Form about a trainee, by or on behalf of the clinical/educational supervisor. The purpose of Foundation training is to ensure that newly qualified doctors transition from student to doctor, practice safely and become valuable members of the NHS workforce. Feedback is therefore very important to help the trainee develop and to ensure patient safety. The areas you will be asked to comment on are regarding clinical practice, teamworking and professional attitude. You are invited to comment on all three areas but, if this is not possible, then please feedback on areas of practice on which you can comment. This feedback will be used by the clinical/educational supervisor to plan the trainee's training and as an assessment of the trainee's progress.

The PSG is responsible for providing structured feedback to the clinical supervisor. Therefore, the form should be filled as soon as possible or you need to let the sender know if you are unable or if you have any questions. Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated.

This is for all ICM Trainees whether they are Single Stream or Dual. The New Curriculum ICM checklist can also be found on the ICM pages. It is the checklist for the ICM component of your training year. If you are a Dual ICM trainee you may well have a "non-ICM" component to your ARCP, and this may require an additional checklist (e.g. the Anaesthesia one above).

These checklists supercede any previous ARCP checklists and apply to all ARCPs from January 2024.

All ARCPs will be held in absence. In the event of an unsatisfactory outcome, a virtual meeting will be arranged within the next 10 day period with the Head of School and Training Programme Director. You will be notified of the date and time of any meeting via HEIW.

All LLP evidence, including the ESSR, must be present to view by the advertised submission date - please co-ordinate the date for ESSR completion with your ES as early as possible.

N.B. The Welsh School of Anaesthesia evidence submission deadline is one week before the ARCP review date (please work to this one week deadline, rather than the HEIW 2 week deadline).

Several videos are available to help you prepare your LLP for ARCP. See these here.

There is also a video presentation, created by Dr Simon Ford, to help you prepare your LLP for ARCP. You can watch it via the link below:

LLP preparation for ARCP.

The Anaesthesia ARCP checklists for 2024 have been revised to reflect the different curricula and their requirements which trainees are working to achieve.

Updated 2024 checklists can be found below.

Please discuss with your ES and arrange an appointment for your ESSR completion in good time.

The format and outcomes for ARCP are based upon the latest guidance from the RCOA and the Statutory Education Bodies of the 4 nations.

You will receive information directly from HEIW on the required ARCP evidence submission date and the date to be available to meet the Head of School and TPD in the event of an unsatisfactory ARCP outcome. Instructions on completion of your Form R will also be sent by HEIW - this must also be uploaded to your LLP.

Anaesthesia trainees need to accept the ARCP outcome on receipt of the LLP email to ensure it is appropriately recorded with the RCoA.

There will be opportunities to meet with your TPDs for programme forward planning discussions during the year, at training focused events.

CT1-ST7 trainees are required to complete their ESSR for their ARCP on the RCoA Lifelong learning platform. The trainee must initiate an ESSR before it may be viewed and completed by the Educational Supervisor and College Tutor. It is imperative that the Educational Supervisor and College Tutor are named on the trainee's LLP, otherwise the reports will not be visible to the ARCP review panel.

Trainees are required to generate one ESSR for EACH hospital they rotate through in their training year (6 month placements thus require 2 ESSRs for the year). You must complete an ESSR with the ES and CT before rotating to the next placement so there is a clear record of training immediately on completion of the placement. Please make sure that you change your ES and place of work at each rotation to be able to generate the ESSR.

Below is an outline of the requirements for completion of Core Surgical Training (CST) and the competencies you are expected to achieve at various stages of your Core Surgical Training for doctors that commenced CT1/ST1 from August 2021.

You are expected to join the ISCP website, assign a TPD, and actively engage with ISCP from the beginning of your training programme. For doctors on run-through programmes, please refer to the guidance on how to enter your placements on ISCP.

It is your responsibility to arrange an objective setting meeting with your AES within 3 weeks of starting your post. Use the syllabus and these objectives as a guide to set yourself specific and achievable objectives for each placement.

A Clinical Supervisor(s) Multi Consultant Report (MCR) should be completed before the mid-point and final meeting with your AES. You should also complete a self-assessment in the same way as CSs complete the MCR, using the same form and describing self-identified areas for development with free text or using CiPs or GPC descriptors.

A final meeting must be completed for each placement (this includes every 4-month placement e.g. Plastics placements) and be validated by both trainer and the doctor in training before the deadline date for ARCP and Interim Progress Review evidence submission.

If you are unable to complete the objective setting, interim review or final meeting with your AESs by the dates outlined above, then you should email your TPD ( copying in your AES in the email) informing them and outlining the reasons why you have had difficulty completing it in time.

You are expected to complete a minimum of 3 Case Based Discussions (CbDs), 3 Clinical Evaluation Exercises (CEXs) and 3 DOPS and/or PBAs for each six-month placement; with at least 50% of the minimum number for each WPBA type validated by a consultant who is a GMC approved trainer and recognised as a consultant on ISCP. This may require the consultant to contact the ISCP helpdesk to ensure that they are designated as such within ISCP, you may need to prompt your consultant to do this.

You are expected to complete the mandatory WPBAs for "critical conditions", as outlined in appendix 3 of the Core Surgical Trainig 2021 curriculum, before the first Interim Progress Review in CT1/ST1. The mandatory WPBA checklist is available towards the bottom of this page, and must be uploaded to the "Other Evidence" section of ISCP under "Miscellaneous" before the deadline date for Interim Progress Review evidence submission.

A minimum of 70% attendance at regional teaching sessions is mandatory for each placement. A record of attendance for each full day of teaching is kept centrally. If you are not able to attend a teaching session for valid reasons an email should be sent to susan...@mft.nhs.uk, with your AES copied in to the email, explaining the reasons for your non-attendance.

You must keep an up-to-date logbook on e-logbook. As a guide you are expected to have been involved in a minimum of 60 cases for each 6-month placement. You should refer to the CST syllabus (2021) and the relevant core specialty and ST3 specialty module checklists (see checklists at bottom of this page) to get an indication of index procedures you are expected to be involved in and level of competency you are expected to achieve for each specialty. You should aim to complete a minimum of 3 DOPS / PBAs for most of the index procedures on the ST3 Preparation Module checklist before the end of CT2/ST2.

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