Recruitment for Aug 2012/ Feb 2013

Recruitment for 2012 starts in November 2011. Check the national recruitment office calendar for the recruitment dates

Key Facts about Recruitment 2012

  • HOW— national scheme
  • www.gprecruitment.org.uk
  • STAGE 1— from 14 Nov 2012
  • STAGE 2— from 14 — 12 Jan 2012
  • STAGE 3— from 20 Feb — 2 Mar 2012
  • Academic GP interviews— tbc

Key Facts about Recruitment Process

  • NUMBER OF STAGES— 4
  • long listing against basic eligibility criteria
  • short listing through 2 papers under exam conditions
  • 3 simulations & 1 written exercise at a selection assessment centre day
  • allocation of posts to successful candidates by rank

Key Facts about Norwich Recruitment

  • Norwich Scheme
  • 2011 Places allocated in Round 1— 26/26
  • 2011 Average ranking by successful candidates — 1.04
  • 2012 Places— 16
  • Aug 12 Start — 16
  • (further places may be offered)
  • 2013 Places— 20
  • Aug 13 Start — 20
  • 2014 Places— 26
  • Aug 13 Start — 26

From 2012 all the intake will occur in August and February starts will no longer be offered

Academic Clincial Fellow Posts

  • Norwich Scheme
  • 2 Academic Clincial Fellowships from 2012
  • 4 Year GP STS training scheme
  • in conjunction with UEA School of Medicine
  • ACF posts are all August start

Recruitment to all GP VTS schemes in the UK is through The National Recruitment Office for GP Training (www.gprecruitment.org.uk). Applications are accepted online, starting November 2012, for recruitment to the scheme in August. There are generally 26 ST1 places available in August on the Norwich Scheme and around 300 in the East of England Deanery.

For entry to the scheme you will need a primary medical qualification (medical degree), to be fully registered with the GMC at the time of application, to be able to provide evidence of achievement of foundation competencies and to hold a current driving licence valid for the UK. Precise details can be found at www.gprecruitment.org.uk.

The Application process has 4 stages. The first is a long-listing process, which determines basic eligibility criteria. Stage 2 comprises an assessment under examination conditions with papers in 1) clinical problem solving and 2) Professional Dilemmas. The papers are designed to assess the essential competencies in the National Person Specification. The Stage 2 assessments will take place at Pearson VUE centres (the venue for the Driving Licence Theory Test). There are PearsonVue test centres at Lowestoft, Norwich, King's Lynn, Bury, Ipswich, Peterborough, Boston, Chelmsford and Cambridge. (List of Test Centre Locations)

Stage 3 is held at a Selection Assessment Centre (SAC). The venue for the East of England deanery is now within deanery premises at the Ida Darwin Site in Cambridge. Candidates complete 3 exercises observed by trained assessors; there are now 3 short simulated consultation/ interactions between candidate and actor and the written exercise.

Stage 4 is the allocation to jobs to successful candidates in order of rank, which is determined by the scores at stages 2 and 3. Places are limited, so not every successful candidate is guaranteed the offer of a training place.

The Norwich Practice placements and posts available for last years recruitment round are available on the Scheme page Here

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