FAQs - for practice interested in becoming a Foundation Training Practice

• F2s are fully licenced doctors, usually in their second year post-graduation.  
• They rotate round jobs every 4 months, at the start of August, December and April.  We would normally expect practices to commit to taking an F2 in each block (i.e. 3 per year)
• They are able to work independently, with support and supervision.  
• They can see patients, sign prescriptions and fit notes, make referrals and arrange admissions.  
• They are not in specialty training yet and as such do not need to be trained to become GPs.  
• There is flexibility around what work you assign to F2s. Relevant work may include GP clinics, minor illness, chronic disease monitoring, medication reviews and quality improvement activities.

• You must provide supervision appropriate to the work they are undertaking.  
• The level of supervision will decrease as the F2 becomes more familiar with the work.  
• F2s should have one educational session per week. There are many forms this can take including a one-to-one tutorial, attending deanery teaching and shadowing health professionals. You are not expected to provide weekly tutorials.  
• Practices do report that F2s make a net positive contribution to the practice workload.      
• Practices hosting F2s will receive the annual training grant (approx. £10,500 for 3 F2s across the year)

• Please confirm your interest to colin.mcarthur@nhs.scot for North or South East regions, or christine.heron@nhs.scot for West or East regions
• New Educational Supervisors need to achieve Recognition of Training status, the main component of which is attendance at the one session trainers workshop (free, provided by NES) - this is not needed if the prospective ES is already an accredited GP Trainer. 
• We offer an optional workshop for new Educational Supervisors and Practice Managers to go over the practicalities of hosting F2s in practice. 

There is more detail in the F2 GP practice guide here