Background: Workplace learning in hospitals is a cornerstone of postgraduate medical education, enabling junior doctors to develop specialist expertise and generalist skills. General Practice (GP) trainees often spend significant time in hospital-based rotations to acquire broad clinical experience.…
It is well-established that GP trainees do not feel confident when transitioning to independent practice. In 2019, the Nottinghamshire GP Phoenix Programme Trainee Transition Scheme (TTS) was established to improve this transition and encourage local retention of newly qualified GPs. The TTS has bee…
Purpose: To evaluate Australian early-career general practitioners’ perceptions of the utility of their prior vocational training in preparing them for independent specialist practice. We hypothesised that in-practice teaching would be perceived as more useful than formal education delivered by Regi…
Background: Work-based learning depends on patients’ consent to have trainees involved in their care. However, patients can refuse trainees, which might lead to the loss of learning experiences. Improved understanding of patients’ views on consulting trainees may provide useful insights to further o…
Timely supervisor input into patient care plays a key role in ensuring the safety of patients under the care of general practice trainees. Current models of clinical supervision for trainees in both hospital and general practice training have, however, been criticised for placing too much onus on th…
The relationship between general practice (GP) registrars and their supervisors underpins the training experience for the next generation of medical practitioners. Building on recent research into the development and validation of a measure of the relationship between registrars and supervisors from…
Most doctors working in New Zealand general practice undertake vocational training through the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. We aimed to explore general practice registrar views on their academic learning needs during and following vocational training. An online survey of all c…
Balint allows colleagues to explore emotions generated from doctor-patient interactions, complexities sometimes overlooked within traditional curricula. With an increasing burnout rate, evidence-based strategies to support trainee general practitioners (GPs) are needed and we investigated if Balint …
The value of arts-based medical education is becoming increasingly well established in undergraduate curricula. However, little is known about its value, and acceptability, to qualified doctors undertaking postgraduate training. In this work we examined GP trainees’ views on whether arts-based educa…
Background: In the UK, evidence of written reflection is part of licensing and revalidation for general practitioners (GPS). However, there is little evidence of specific benefits compared to other forms of reflective practice. Aim: To seek GPS' and general practice (GP) trainees' views on the role …
Background: Written reflection has become a key part of evidence for assessment for General Practitioners (GPs) and GP Specialist Trainees (GPSTs), as it is thought to enhance the reflective process and demonstrate on-going learning. However, the educational value of mandatory reflection has been qu…
Performance of procedures is an integral part of any family physician/general practitioner's practice. Unfortunately, discrepancy occurs between the existing theoretical methods of procedural teaching and the training imparted during real daily practice, which creates gaps that need to be overcome. …
WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN IN THIS AREA: • Independent practice is likely to require not only actual competence, but also self-perceived competence. • Self-perceived competence is not strongly correlated to actual competence. • Some studies have found low levels of self-perceived competence in general pr…
Training posts in primary care or hospital practice settings provide rich learning opportunities for trainees. Trainees will appreciate and benefit from support for their learning in the clinical setting, exposure to modern teaching methods and constructive feedback. Planning is very much at the hea…
For many registrars, general practice is regarded as a compromise between the more exciting work in hospitals and a compromise for a life outside medicine. There are, nevertheless, known significant stresses experienced by registrars in general practice training. The aim of this qualitative study of…
This questionnaire survey examines the QOF attainment of training practices and explores whether QOF is appropriate for a basis for training practice accreditation. In this study 250 London training practices participated with scores obtained being highly comparable with those achieved by training p…
