The Foundation Academic Programmes at Barts and the London offer an outstanding opportunity to sample a range of clinical academic specialties.

Twelve of the posts are based at Barts and the London itself, and three at Whipps Cross University Hospital.

The posts will provide you with first-rate clinical experience together with generic as well as specific research and educational exposure, which could serve as a basis for the rest of your career.

Our academic programme is now entering its seventh year and has been an outstanding success. Our graduates have been highly rated on the national assessment scheme and have to date all obtained their first choice jobs on leaving the programme.

Undertake innovative research

Our academic FY2 doctors have initiated and completed innovative research projects leading to presentations at national and international meetings, and have published their research findings in a range of medical journals.

Examples of the many types of research study carried out in the last 2 years by academic FY2 doctors here include:

• Beetroot juice as antihypertensive therapy (Clinical Pharmacology)
• Nitrite and ischaemia/reperfusion injury (Clinical Pharmacology)
• Mortality after NSTEMI: is there an ethnic variation? (Clinical Pharmacology)
• Indices of insulin resistance associated with triglyceride concentrations in Europeans (Diabetes)
• Gender differences in adult outcome of conduct disorder in a national household population (Psychiatry)
• Diagnosing co-morbid psychiatric disorders in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (Psychiatry)
• Validation of the Web-based BRAIN Test© (Neurosciences)
  High field MRI for white matter lesion characterisation in MS (Neurosciences)
• Validation of hepatitis serological testing in dried blood spots (Hepatology/Virology)
• Case finding for viral hepatitis in East London (Hepatology/Virology)
• Audit of hep B referrals in THPCT (Hepatology/Virology)
• Clinical uses of PET/CT in Hodgkin’s and follicular lymphoma (Oncology/Nuclear Medicine)
• Evaluation of oncolytic adenoviruses in primary ovarian cancer tissue (Oncology)
• Break a leg: vitamin D metabolism and bone healing (A & E)
• The heart of the matter: scoring in ER (A & E)
• Ultra sounding the IVC to measure intravascular fluid volume (A & E)
• The effect of posterior tibial nerve stimulation in rectal evacuatory disorder (Colorectal surgery)
• Professional identity and motivation of Cameroonian medicine sellers (Public Health)

Educational projects

Academic FY2 doctors at Barts and the London can also undertake educational projects, and recent examples are shown below:

• Penicillin allergy – a knowledge improvement scheme (Pathology)
• Prescribing skills for final year students at QMUL (Whipps Cross)
• Development and evaluation of stifcompetencies, a new clinical training program in sexual health for primary care health professionals (Genitourinary Medicine)