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Foundation FY2 Standalone SJT Preparation Course

FY2 Standalone SJT Preparation Course

FY2 Standalone SJT Preparation Course

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2024 Course Details

The live course for 2024 was held on the 10th February - we won't have any more dates this year. You can subscribe to the recording of the full course (7+ hours of videos) for instant access for £250 for 1 month.



Key Points:
  • Intensive preparation for the FY2 Standalone Situational Judgement Test (FYS2 SJT)
  • Fully updated for 2024 entry - including evolving dilemma and speech dilemma ratings SJTs
  • Key tips and techniques to boost your SJT score and help you get an interview slot
  • Understand the SJT domains and attributes being tested
  • Comprehensive coverage of the FY2 Situational Judgement Test
  • Key topics for the FY2 SJT exam - GMC guidance (including 2024 updates), ethics, confidentiality, consent, capacity
  • Realistic mock FY2 Situational Judgement Test with detailed explanations
  • All questions on the course specifically targeted to the FY2 SJT exam
  • All questions are unique to this course - not available online or in any books
  • Ideal for anyone sitting the FY2 standalone SJT
  • Includes access to our FY2 SJT online mock exam for 1 month after the course (worth £30)
  • Includes access to the course recording for 1 month after the course on request

This intensive course is dedicated to helping you boost your scores in the FY2 Standalone Situational Judgement Test.

Course Feedback

“I feel much clearer and more confident in my approach to the SJT, I feel the tools to prepare were really well explained and I appreciated the timed mock and opportunity to dissect the answers. Thank you!”

“Interactive course, very engaging. The material was well presented. Dr. Rahman and the team were very pleasant, questions were very useful. The question segments were very beneficial.”

“Dr Rahman’s teaching style and expertise were truly exceptional. The course was not only extremely informative but also immensely helpful, especially in gaining insights on how to approach SJT. Dr Rahman took the time to explain each question in detail, leaving no room for doubts. I believe the course was worth every penny.”

The course covers:

Key Theory and Techniques for SJT exams - Key attributes and domains tested in the FY2 Standalone SJT exam. How to approach ratings SJT questions. Understanding how the FY2 SJT exam is marked. Key tips and techniques to boost your scores.

Core Knowledge for the FY2 SJT - Medical ethics, confidentiality, capacity, consent, GMC Good Medical Practice, child protection, raising concerns, prescribing, end of life care and advance directives, Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) orders, personal beliefs and medical practice, maintaining boundaries. Fully updated to take account of changes to GMC guidance in 2024 and the recently updated DNAR and consent guidance.

FY2 SJT Mock Exam Full Mock FY2 SJT paper with the same timings per question as the real exam to get you used to optimum time management. This includes only ratings SJT questions, with examples of the new style evolving dilemam and speech dilemma ratings SJT questions. Detailed answers and explanations with discussion of WHY the best responses are correct, mapped to the Foundation Programme SJT attributes / person specification. All questions have been written specifically for the Foundation SJT exam in the same way as the real SJT questions - with a consensus panel including a subject matter expert (SME).

Questions and Answers - Dedicated question and answer session on SJT questions and FY2 Standalone programme entry.

SJT course

The course will be taught by Dr Mahibur Rahman - the author of the first article on Situational Judgement Tests in medical recruitment (Tackling Situational Judgement Tests - BMJ Careers 2007). Dr Rahman is a Portfolio GP and a consultant in medical education - he is an expert in medical careers, and has taught over 76,000 delegates since 2005.

Course Programme

09:30 Welcome and Introduction
09.35 FY2 Standalone - SJT overview
09.45 Key Techniques for SJT exams + SJT scenarios
11.20 Break
11.35 Core knowledge for the FY2 SJT
12.50 Lunch Break
13.35 FY2 Situational Judgement Test Mock Exam
14.25 SJT Mock: Answers, explanations and feedback Part 1
15.25 Break
15.40 SJT Mock: Answers, explanations and feedback Part 2
17.40 Questions and Answers, Summary and final tips
18.00 Close

We have helped students from every UK medical school prepare for the Foundation SJT since 2012, with excellent results and feedback every year: We have updated the course fully to cover the format of th FY2 standalone SJT, which has only ratings SJT questions.

You can see some feedback from past students for our SJT courses below:

"Great course, thank you very much! Helped me secure my first choice Deanery"

S L - University of Glasgow (49.16)

"Plenty of worked examples of SJT questions and explanations of all the domains. It really got me thinking about how to answer the questions, how to identify the key themes and also the layout of the exam and answer sheet which prior to this course I was completely unfamiliar with!"

A C - Leeds University Medical School (48.57)

"Really useful mock exam to practice with exam timings. I found the course most useful for helping me to understand what each question was testing and then could refer back to the key guidance we had covered."

K M - The University of Sheffield (48.30)

"The course was well organised and excellent value for money. There was advice given that you could not find anywhere online. Also good to be able to practise a realistic mock with good reasoning given for the answers."

I S- Swansea Medical School (47.48)

"Very well layed out course that covered all the relevant information regarding the SJT. Practice paper helped with managing time. Overall a fantastic course!"

R M - University of Glasgow (47.74)

"Good programme to keep students engaged. Plenty of practice questions, and great to get access to larger question bank."

R L - University of Dundee (46.93)

"Everything was great, thank you!"

M K - Cardiff University (46.43)

"The lecture itself was very concise and all of the information was useful and relevant. The timed practice paper and discussion was probably the highlight of the day."

C B - University of Sheffield (46.30)

"Very professional, concise, everything you need to know, practice paper plus booklet and questions to take away and do at home."

I B - Leeds (46.11)

"Mock exam was really helpful. Speaker took time to explain every answers & he was really funny hence the talk wasn't that dry."

D E - University of Scotland (46.16)

"Clear, concise and organised. Good starting point to help with my preparation for the SJT"

D G - University of Leeds (46.03)

"The explanation of the different exam sections and the rationale behind these was really helpful. The practice questions were brilliant, and the booklet provided was also really useful."

S W - Cardiff University (46.02)

SJT course

We also help many international medical graduates achieve great scores and successfully enter the Foundation Programme, with doctors attending from Poland, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, UAE, Sudan, Bulgaria and further afield:

"General overview of questions and how to answer them. The explanation of how the scoring worked was very useful. The practice paper at the end was also confidence boosting."

T C - Leeds (45.60)

"Method of explanation is clear and gives a good structure for answering questions"

J J - UCL (45.54)

"Good introduction, clearly outlining the key principles/contents for the exam and then good exam advice tips!"

S M - Sheffield (45.88)

"Good explanations, good advice, great booklet"

K R - KCL Medical School (45.50)

"Clear guidance on how to improve marks for each of the different types of questions."

V V - Imperial College London (45)

Whilst Oxford was my first choice deanery, I actually accepted an academic foundation training post in the NW Thames region. However, I'm still very pleased I attended the course as my SJT score would have given me an overall EPM of 91.58, which would comfortably have allowed me to rank jobs in the Oxford deanery confidently. Dr Rahman you spoke and taught with so much energy throughout the day. It really helps, particularly since the topics covered by the SJT are not necessarily what all medical students find interesting.

P S - University of Manchester (44.58)

Found the course useful and the past paper particularly good.

F K - King's College London (44.125)

Good use of questions and examples. The course leader was very good at explaining rationale behind answers.

I H - University of Leeds (43.678)

Really happy with the course and how it all turned out. I doubt I would have gotten into Scotland if my SJT score hadn't been high and it was only because of your brilliant course.

S M - Edinburgh (43.057)

Wonderful course, great starting point for anyone who doesn't know what they're doing and isn't sure how to start SJT revision.

B A - St George's (43.55)

Questions were useful and resources received were excellent. The tips we received were extremely beneficial and transferrable to the exam.

S J - St George's University of London (43.058)

"Great course all around and very professional. Expert speaker and good questions. Would definitely recommend to colleagues in the years below me."

"Structured approach and explanation to the SJT"

"Very informative. Helpful to understand why the order was as it was. Speaker was funny and had my concentration the whole way through, which is a great achievement! Good to practice the questions using the actual grids."

Run by an actual doctor with a wealth of experience in the process and subject matter. He approached the SJT from a pragmatic and logical perspective and his aim throughout was not some nebulous "make us better doctors" nonsense, but purely to help us get the best results possible by playing the game. Best SJT investment I made without a doubt and will 100% recommend to everyone in the years below.

E M - Glasgow 2019 Entry (43)

Very engaging speaker!! Also, good to have access to practice questions as well as a mock exam where we worked through the answers.

J R - UCL (42.749)

"Excellent course, I'm very pleased to have taken it. I got a solid score and into my top foundation school! Excellent presentation of general strategy and big picture information, then combined with lots of practice questions and explanations. The practice papers with written feedback was very helpful."

M P - St George's, University of London (42.523)

Very well organized. Knowledgeable presenter who kept the course interesting for the whole day.

M L - Cardiff University (42.282)

Really well organised. Speaker was clear in his explanations and engaging. The tips for the SJT were handy and helped me in my approach to the exam as well as preparation!

A D - UEA (42.236)

The presenter provided very clear explanations behind the orders for the answers.

S D - King's college London (42)

"Excellent course, I'm very pleased to have taken it. I got a solid score and into my top foundation school! Excellent presentation of general strategy and big picture information, then combined with lots of practice questions and explanations. The practice papers with written feedback was very helpful."

M P - St George's, University of London (42.52 SJT points)

"I got 40.126 in the exam, which I think is much more than I would've got if I didn't attend the course. The course helped pick at difficult topics and open up my mind about how to think about questions from outside the box. I also got into my first choice! Which was really surprising, as I studied medicine abroad in the UAE and I know typically IMG's don't do as well."

J S - Gulf Medical University, Ajman, UAE (40.126)

"Having graduated outside of the U.K, I had no idea about what SJT was. Attending Emedica course was the best thing I did in preparations for SJT. The course gave me a clear idea of what is, what to do in preparation and what not to do. It was very useful indeed. So, thank you very much, I got allocated to my first preference programme."

A P - Comenius University, Slovakia (40.20)

Thank you for helping me! I liked learning the different techniques of thinking to answer the questions and it wasn't boring at all!

M B - Kings college London (40.70)

Very well organised and well-structured questions on the day.

R S - St. Georges medical school (40)

Got my first ranked job! Went into the sjt feeling confident on how to answer the questions and knowing how to approach each question. Loved being an ambassador for you. Course covered all basis of the exam including exam technique and where to get information from.

V A - Hull York medical school (40)

Thank you! Don't think I would have got this score without the course.

K - Aberdeen (42.294)

I got 40.126 in the exam, which I think is much more than I would've got if I didn't attend the course. The course helped pick at difficult topics and open up my mind about how to think about questions from outside the box. I also got into my first choice! Which was really surprising, as I studied medicine abroad in the UAE and I know typically IMG's don't do as well.

J S - Gulf Medical University, Ajman, UAE (40.126)

Having graduated outside of the U.K, I had no idea about what SJT was. Attending Emedica course was the best thing I did in preparations for sjt. The course gave me a clear idea of what is, what to do in preparation and what not to do. It was very useful indeed. So, thank you very much, I got allocated to my first preference programme.

A P - Comenius University, Slovakia (40.201)

Very interactive and well-organised. The booklets given were useful and doing practice paper and going through answers was helpful.

It was well structured, concise and covered the main topics.

University of Bristol (44.9)

A brilliant course everyone should take. It goes beyond the generic outline of general tips for the SJT and actually shows you how the examiners think and the strategy of thinking of the scenario as a real life situation. I also liked that we went through a difficult mock exam together because it allowed us to see the gaps in our knowledge. Great course.

N - Imperial College London (44.822)

I scored 44.148. I'm so happy with this and would like to thank you for all your help. I would really recommend the course to my peers in the year below. I found it useful to go on the course at the beginning of my SJ preparation as it allowed me to guide the rest of my studies.

L K - Foundation SJT 2018 Entry (44.148)

Telephone: 0121 744 6433 email: info@emedica.co.uk