How to Apply For Your MTAS Medical Training Application Service - Medical Students

If you're in 4th or 5th year you've possibly heard something about "MTAS" which stands for Medical Training Application Service (MTAS). You will be using this service to apply for your foundation school and foundation year 1 (and probably 2) employments after graduating from your medical student exams. If your preparation was whatever like mine was, you're possibly wondering what it's all about, and apart from being given an hour long lecture on the process, you're still none the wiser.

 

Here is a fast guide to the MTAS process:

Each of you will make your application online. Go to the foundation programme website. Here, there is a PDF document with an application timeline which gives you the dates for each process of the application.
 

When applications open, you will be given a log-in for the foundation programme website. On this website you will find the application form.
 

Your application is scored out of 100.
 

Your score is generated up by...

Your answers to the set questions (Max 60) - You will be given 7 questions and each one will be scored. Each question needs you to remember on a personal or clinical triumph and state how this will benefit you throughout your foundation year employments. You will be given example questions and answers to look at before you receive the conclusive questions. be sure you look at the styles of the sample answers and try to use the same format. (The questions will be given to you around 3 weeks before the submission deadline so come out preparing your answers early!)
 

Your ranking at medical school (Max 40) - your medical school will split the year into quartiles depending on your exam performance. Everyone in the best quartile receives the highest number of points (40). Everyone in the bottom quartile receives the lowest number of points (34).
On with the guide...

There is an field on the application to write about any additional qualifications you may have. be sure you put down any other degrees you have as well as any courses you have completed e.g. ALS, warning, PLS.
 

You will in addition have the possibility to write about any audit projects you have completed or if you have received any publications at medical school you - if you are in 4th year it can be worth commencing an audit project. They aren't too time expensive and will set you despite your colleagues.
 

You will require to contact 2 physicians to use as references. These are preferably consultants that you have ought to know through a period of time. evidently try and use people you have impressed! inquire them for their permission and acquire their contact details. They will be required to submit a short reference on your performance with them (you will not require to organise this yourself). It is unlikely that any person will not agree to write a reference on you though, be sure you are not rushing to find somebody at the last moment - think back to your preceding attachments.
 

Lastly, you will be required to rank the foundation schools in order of preference.
 

Make sure you take care to the deadlines and kick off the process early - you don't want to be rushing this in at the end, particularly since the applications are submitted online. If you all wait until the last moment to press the "submit" button, the system will crash meaning your application can be late!
Once you have submitted your application you will receive your score and will see your allocated foundation deanery.
 

After this, the process differs slightly for each deanery:

You will be required to rank the F1 (+/- F2) employments in order of preference. This is usually a time-consuming process so do not try and do it all in one go!
 

Remember, you will assign your job based on your score. If you have unfortunately, pulled off a reduce score, you may require to be strategic about which employments you rank highest. You will be less probable to be allocated employments that are extremely generalized if your score is low though, if your score is high, this is less probable to be a trouble.

That summarizes the process. reflect to go after each step by ways of and things should be alright for your admission. The process as a whole is very daunting. You will listen rumours flying around for years before you even make your application !

Try to be sure that the extensive majority of people will get into their preferred foundation school and most people will be allocated one of their top 10 ranked employments.

Remember that people will be ranking employments in an unlimited number of different combinations meaning usually you will all be competing for different "favourite" employments while you are revising for your medical student exams!