(Details about hospital posts are on the "About
Frimley VTS" page)
GP Faculty
Handbook - a combination of a
"Guide to starting with Frimley VTS" and "This is what the VTS
and Trainers have to offer"
News & Update - August 2008
Welcome
to the new cohort - another SIXTEEN names and faces to try and learn - just as
well that you are with us for three years! A quick reminder of the "August
Tasks" from the handbook:
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Find the RCGP
website, register as a trainee (look at AIT option)
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Understand the
differences between your Clinical Supervisor in each post and your Educational
Supervisor for the whole programme
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Think about
learning objectives in your first post (see below)
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Arrange a start
of post meeting with your Clinical Supervisor
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Speak to, and
preferably meet up with, your Educational Supervisor
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Book 2 days of
study leave with your ES’s practice (to take place in September or October)
Please use the study leave forms at the back of this handbook (KSS Deanery)
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Find the Frimley
VTS website (hosted on Frimley Green Medical Centre site – www.fgmc.org.uk)................
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Activate your
e-portfolio (after KSS have given you your NTN....)
Contact Details
This spreadsheet shows the contact details held by the
Programme Directors for all of the doctors on the scheme. If your details are
incorrect, the please notify Dr
Richard de Ferrars. Please feel free to use this contact information
yourselves but do respect each other's privacy!
Download - Frimley Scheme Contact
Details
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Study Leave
You
will have received some basic information on study leave in your Hospital
Induction Packs. This is some further information of particular relevance to GP
ST1’s and ST2’s.
We
are in a transition phase as new Specialist Training Programmes and examinations
become established. Every college has developed new curricula and learning
objectives for their ST’s. Within General Practice, there are a lot of changes
that seek to improve the coordination of educational planning over the whole
three year envelope. Some study leave is so important that it is pretty well
compulsory. This might include vital hospital courses (like ALS) and also
Deanery study days (exam preparation days and regional study days). In
particular, all ST’s are being invited to use up to 2 days study leave per
post (in month 2 or 3) to spend with their ES in their practice. This will
provide an opportunity to fulfil some of the MRCGP educational processes but,
more importantly, allow the ST to focus on GP aspects of their post as well as
getting to know their future training practice. These components may use a large
part of your study leave allowance (currently approximately £860 per year).
Study
Leave with ES
Ultimately is your decision how you use your study leave. We believe that using
6 days per year (2 days per post) with your ES will bring many advantages, not
least is establishing a firm link with General Practice and your training
practice. There are some aspects of your WPBA that will take place during these
attachments. We recommend that you arrange 2 days per post but 1 day per post is
an acceptable minimum. If you do wish to proceed with this arrangement, then
there are implications for completing the WPBA required by the Deanery and you
must discuss this at the earliest opportunity with your Programme Director.
In
view of these changes, at present KSS GP Deanery is not currently supporting the
traditional programme of diplomas that existed under the old arrangements. We
would encourage all ST’s to work with the GP Curriculum from the outset and to
use their PDP to reflect both general and focused educational aims. Your ES will
then be able to discuss with you how these aims can best be achieved. All
requests for study leave require agreement from your Programme Director. Courses
that are outside KSS are not normally refunded.
Frimley
Training Scheme Study Leave Guidelines
- All
to be signed off by Course Organiser / Programme Director
- Must
be broadly consistent with, and appropriate to, basic GP training
- Diplomas
only supported if part of a PDP with a view to developing an area of special
interest.
- Courses
are unlikely to be agreed (or refunded) if they are outside KSS
- 1
week maximum private study before a major exam (unusual in ST1 and ST2)
- 1
day maximum private study before a minor exam (eg MCQ)
- MRCGP
courses only in ST3 (except KSS study days)
- Non-GP
courses (eg ALS) only if specifically relevant to service delivery in
hospital posts
- 2-day
attachments with your training practice in each 4 month post have been
agreed as appropriate use of study leave
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Organisation and Educational Supervision
Clinical
Supervisors
In each 4 month
post on your training rotation, you will have a named Clinical Supervisor (CS)
who typically will be one of the Consultants on the firm that are working on.
They will be providing the day to day supervision of your post. They oversee the
education within each individual post – PDP’s, access to the departmental
teaching sessions, access to the required assessments. They also provide a
report (CSR – Clinical Supervisors Report) at the end of each post and this is
used for the MRCGP exam.
·
Start of post - meet to
discuss PDP and educational programme within the department
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Assessments - Your CS
should help with the assessments. It is ideal if they conduct your CbD
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CSR Report - vital
report that they must complete at the end of each post
Educational
Supervisors
All of the local
GP Trainers will also be acting as the nominated Educational Supervisors (ES)
for doctors on all three years of the GP Specialty Training Programme. The
intention is that the ES that you work with in years 1 and 2, becomes the GP
Trainer whose practice you join during year 3. This will work out 90% of the
time but unfortunately there will always be changes in circumstances that could
not have been foreseen 3-4 years previously which necessitate changes to plans!
·
Aim to meet at the start / end of post handover to check
progress
·
Formal review meetings twice per year, Usually month 5-6
and month 10 (during study leave attachments)
Programme
Directors / Course Organisers
We are all local
GP’s who work with KSS GP Deanery to organize the local training programmes.
Where traditionally this has involved working mainly with doctors in the final
practice year, this now involves close working with doctors in the Foundation
Programme as well as all three years of the GP Specialty Training Programme. One
of us will be your nominated Programme Director (see contact
details sheet) and if there are problems or issues that you need to discuss,
then contact us. All requests for study leave need to be signed-off by your
Programme Director.
·
Contact us to discuss
issues and problems
·
We will approach you for
a report at the end of each post
Download
- Overview of educational
structure & reviews
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Training
Post Objectives
Overall Objectives of the Training Year
- Passing the Deanery annual review and progressing to the next
training year
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Satisfactory completion of the two reviews with your ES
Ø
Assessments (mini-CEX, CbD, MSF)
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Learning log
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Submitting a learning log that shows
educational activity across the curriculum
- Gaining a knowledge base that is relevant to the GP curriculum
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Use the
RCGP curriculum map and our hospital-based learning objectives (see below)
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Ensure
that your learning log in each post reflects the required knowledge base
- Acquiring core clinical skills
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Become familiar with the skills section in your portfolio
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Use DOPS assessments to record
progress towards competence
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Complete foundation programme DOPS if
you do not have these from previous posts
- Developing links with your training practice
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Keep in regular contact with your ES
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Maximise opportunities to spend study
leave in General Practice
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Use these contacts to consider the
primary care perspective of your hospital posts
Learning Objectives for Individual Posts
The MRCGP Curriculum must form the core to planning your learning
objectives and the Curriculum
Map does help to demonstrate the knowledge base that your are expected to
cover. However, learning opportunities in hospital posts will cross several
curriculum chapters. The most obvious example is A&E where you will probably
see clinical problems from most chapters of the curriculum. The tables on this
spreadsheet should help you to navigate the curriculum and see. what your may
be able to gain for your e-portfolio in each post. There is more
detailed guidance on this on the e-portfolio page on the website.
Download - Hospital-based Learning Objectives
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Educational
Meetings
Thursday VTS Case Presentations
We had mixed success last year with the case presentations at 13:30 at the
start of the Thursday VTS afternoon. The feedback from the ST3s was that they
found the exercise very useful but that it was difficult to involve the ST1s and
ST2s. These presentations will continue and we would very much like to see the
ST1s and ST2s getting involved when the ST3s from your practices are leading the
presentation - the best ones were often those that did involve hospital-based as
well as practice-based STs. We recognise that we cannot expect hospital
departments to release you for the Thursday afternoon teaching sessions but if
you are around & available then you are always welcome. Details about which
weeks we would invite you to participate are on the page on Learning
Sets
Friday Lunchtime Sessions
On the last Friday of every month we will hold a lunchtime meeting
specifically for the ST1s and ST2s. These will be at FPH post-graduate centre,
starting at 12:45. The Psychiatry-based trainees have a Balint Group that starts
at 14:15, so will make sure that you are away by 13:45 The end-of-August meeting
is primarily for the ST1s and will focus on the concept of workplace-based
assessments & e-portfolio. Please join us if you wish. The September meeting
will be Sept 26th. We will try and cover topics like "Creating good
e-portfolio learning logs", "How to put the GP Curriculum into
Practice", "Creative Reflective Writing"..... Please do support
this initiative!