The Trust offers 42 Foundation Year 1 posts and 42 year 2 posts, divided between 14 Tracks offering trainees a wide and varying experience in all aspects of medicine, including a four-month rotation in General Practice in Foundation Year 2. 

In addition to hands-on experience, protected full day teaching hosted by resident Consultants and visiting professionals, is held fortnightly and mapped to the foundation curriculum 

 

We also offer a small number of our tracks as Foundation Priority Programme tracks, which have a surgical theme – a great opportunity for anyone who is keen to get into surgical specialty training. With this comes the offer of extra time in theatre, involvement in teaching & opportunity to complete a PG Certification. 

We are one of two trusts to take part in the North-West pilot for Foundation tracks as part of the Generalist/Enhanced curriculum (see tracks 13 &14 on the programme) these are a first for the northwest and offer unique opportunities for Foundation Trainees to develop their skills in line with the enhanced curriculum – Link to handbook  

The programme for the expansion tracks can be found here  

We have so much to offer at Blackpool, including the following: 

The Facilities 

  • Purpose built Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre (link to the sim & skills pages) 

  • Dedicated training team 

  • NHSE NW accredited customised simulated based medical education unit 

  • Two “mock” clinical areas, with observation rooms 

  • Full range of remote-controlled simulation manikins. 

  • Purpose built Medical Education Centre 

  • Quality accredited library available 24/7 for access to education and evidence-based resources 

  • Meeting rooms and lecture theatre for trainee use 

  • Onsite training courses – BLS, PILS, ILS, NLS & more! 

  • Clinical meetings, MDTs and Weekly Grand Rounds 

  • Equipped teaching rooms on wards and departments 

The Foundation Programme is a structured two-year training programme for trainee doctors who have just graduated from medical school.  The General Medical Council (GMC) influences and shapes this training through NHSE Northwest who work with local NHS Trusts to deliver their individual educational programmes. 

 

At Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, we combine curriculum-mapped teaching with hands-on clinical experience, with our Foundation Trainees responsible for caring for patients under the supervision of more experienced doctors and other healthcare professionals. 

The Foundation Programme Team at Blackpool Consists of  

  • Mr Adrian McKenna – Foundation Programme Director – Year 2 

  • Dr Rob Thompson – Foundation Programme Director – Year 1  

  • Dr Hanadi Sari-Kouzel – Associate Foundation Programme Director 

  • Trish Broadhead – Foundation Programme Administrator 

  • Anne-Marie Walker – Clinical Skills Facilitator with responsibility for the Foundation Teaching Programme