What is the Malta Foundation School?
By special agreement between the Department of Health (England) and the Health Care Services Division of the Maltese Ministry for Social Policy, the UKFPO provided technical support to establish a foundation school in Malta in July 2009. The UKFPO recognises the Malta Foundation School as an affiliated school as its curriculum, operational processes and quality assurance are based on those used in the UK. However, the Malta Foundation Programme is regulated by the Medical Council of Malta and not by the UK General Medical Council. A UK graduate who wishes to apply to the Malta Foundation Programme should seek the advice of their medical school. Under exceptional circumstances, the medical school in partnership with the local postgraduate deanery may prospectively approve training as a provisionally registered doctor outside the UK and, upon satisfactory completion, support their application for full registration with the GMC. If prospective approval is not given to a UK medical graduat
