Recruitment to two year Foundation Programmes August 2016: Stage 1 

Outcome for Peninsula Medical School (PMS) Students

200 PMS students were eligible to apply for the two year foundation programme. 5 students secured an academic foundation post and 2 students did not apply. Of the 193 students who applied 65 (34%) put the Peninsula Foundation School as their first choice compared with a national mean of 40.5% choosing their home foundation school first.

62 PMS students have a place in the Peninsula Foundation school, of which 7 (11%) put another school as their first choice but have been allocated a place in the Peninsula.  These 7 students put Peninsula as their 2nd choice.  10 PMS students put the Peninsula as their first choice but 9 did not secure a place and 1 withdrew their application. In this first stage of recruitment there are 2 PMS students on the national reserve list and 2 applicants have withdrawn their application.

Chart 1: Foundation School destinations of PMS Students on the primary list

F1 2016 Stage one Chart 1

Nationally 94.3% of applicants on the primary list got one of their top 5 foundation schools. 87% (163) of PMS students got a top five choice and 70% (131) have secured their first choice. The worst outcome for a PMS student on the primary list was 13th choice.

Table 1: Comparison of PMS student allocations since 2010 (primary list) 

 

2010 entry

2011 entry

2012 entry

2013 entry

2014 entry

2015 entry

2016 entry

% of PMS students whose first choice was the Peninsula Foundation School

55%

43%

44%

39%

23%

19%

34%

% of PMS students in Peninsula Foundation School

55%

43%

44%

39%

26%

24%

33%

Composition of the Peninsula Foundation School (at stage 1)

F1 2016 Stage one Chart 2

Table 2: Comparison of the composition of the Peninsula Foundation School since 2010 

 

2010 entry

2011 entry

2012 entry

2013 entry

2014 entry

2015 entry

2016 entry

Applicants from PMS

37%

38%

33%

34%

27%

24%

33%

Applicants from other UK medical schools

61%

61%

64%

65%

71%

74%

65%

Applicants from schools outside the UK

2%

1%

3%

1%

2%

2%

2%

 

Suzanne Maddock

Foundation School Administrator 

March 2016