two afp / sfp interviews, two rejections and...

afp interviews!

so i’ve somehow navigated my way to two sfp interviews

• scotland - 24/11/2021
• northern (as in the north-east of england) - 13/12/2021

interview outcomes - 12/01/2022

Unfortunately your application (*) has not been successfully matched at this time. Further offer match recycling will be run in due course so please look out for further communications and status updates in your applicant portal.

brilliant. and that wraps that up. two rejections.

interview, rejection and … - 19/01/22

Thank you for attending the recent interview for Specialised Foundation Programme Level 2FP. We are pleased to offer you the following programme: Specialised Foundation Programme, 22/HENE/AFP/STEES/03, AFP post at James Cook University Hospital (Middlesbrough) consisting of Academic Research, Chest Medicine, Colorectal Surgery. All successful AFP candidates within the Northern Foundation School are offered a 2-Year AFP contract at their allocated Trust covering both the F1 and F2 years. The Northern Academic FS is, we believe, unique in offering our AFP trainees a 4 month Academic slot in BOTH the F1 and the F2 year. Please note that F2 rotations will be advised at a later date from the Trust., 2FP, Health Education England North East, 03/08/2022, 24 months This offer is valid until Jan 21 2022 9:23AM. Please log into Oriel to respond to the offer received. You must ensure that you respond to the offer received by the deadline date. Offers that are not responded to will be treated as declined.

walking to the common room. a short walk from the accom block. read a notification that my oriel was updated. i knew exactly what was going on. a slight smirk.

why aren’t you so excited?

well it was tempting but for a few months i’ve been leaning away from academia as an early career interest. publication pressure and all.

and more honestly, its just not what my skillset is. i thought for years academia is me but its just not me.

you’ve waited years for this and this is it?

one day i’ll make a more beautifully put post about the afp process but there’s many more opportunities out there. hopefully will smash the sjt and get london.

and did you smash the sjt?

nope - i’m on the isle of wight