Foundation Year

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 eighth 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 3 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)
  • Appetite and gastro-intestinal hormone release throughout the menstrual cycle (Diabetes/endocrinology)
  • Vitamin D - a tale of two studies (Diabetes/Endocrinology)
  • 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)
  • Social capital and common mental disorders: analysis of the Adults Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007 (Psychiatry)
  • Validation of the Web-based BRAIN Test© (Neurosciences)
  • B cell and viral activity in multiple sclerosis (Neurosciences)
  • The development of a picture discrimination test for people with very poor vision (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)
  • A new cardiovascular risk factor (Public Health)
  • HbA1c inequalities in East London primary care (Public Health)

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)
  • Development and evaluation of stifcompetencies, a new clinical training program in sexual health for primary care health professionals (Genitourinary Medicine)
  • Prescribing skills for final year students at QMUL (Whipps Cross)
  • The journey of an Academic Foundation Year Doctor in medical education (Whipps Cross)