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were foundation
noun
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
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Leaving Bayon, we walked along the Terrace of the Elephants and the Terrace of the Leper King, which were foundation walls for the royal palace that stood at the heart of Angkor Thom.
Of 368 students, 279 (76%) were foundation doctors (interns) and had not commenced formal surgical training on enrolling in the MSc programme.
The qualifiers of 2009 were Foundation Year 1 doctors (doctors in their first year after graduation); the qualifiers of 2005 were mainly specialty registrars (middle-grade doctors in specialty training posts, 5 years after graduation); and the qualifiers of 1993 were mainly consultants and general practitioners (GPs), doctors 17 years after qualification who have completed specialist training.
Participants were Foundation Doctors based in the NHS in England and Wales (see box) working across a range of specialties (total population n = 13,138).
This work was supported by a competitive research grant from the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund, the Alison Bult bequest, raised funds by the Rotary Club of Melbourne and philanthropic funding from Perpetual Philanthropic Services, George Adams Tattersalls Foundation, Goldman Sachs JB Were Foundation and the Windermere Foundation Limited.
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