Half Day Release Programme
Welcome to the Half Day Release Course. Sessions are held from 1.00-4.30 pm at Field House, Bradford Royal Infirmary, on Tuesday afternoons, with a break for refreshments and networking from 3.15 - 3.30 pm.
All GP registrars and trainees on the Bradford VTS are expected to attend every session. Please sign the register as a record of attendance - this helps us monitor your protected learning time.
If your work commitments in your GP or hospital post make it difficult for you to attend, please let Sofya and the Programme Directors know. Otherwise, attendance is MANDATORY.
We would strongly recommend you return to this page regularly to check for changes and updates.
Here's a really good tip when you start ANY new training post:
It’s worth trying to make the best impression you can in the first few days of the post – e g friendliness, interest in the job and all your colleagues at every level, willingness to work hard, willingness to listen to instructions and advice.
This is particularly relevant in the specialties without a close team structure, where people don’t have a lot of opportunity to get to know each other in depth. The permanent staff tend to form a rapid impression of new doctors, who then get a reputation which sticks. People take a long time to change their view if they have made up their mind about you.
It would be tactless and inappropriate for us to quote examples, but some trainees of ours have found themselves pigeonholed either negatively (e g as slack, unconscientious or uncooperative) or positively (e g helpful, hardworking or conscientious) on very little evidence. Later, when their behaviour has changed, their reputation hasn’t.
A little extra effort in the first few days is likely to be really worthwhile. (Of course I’m not saying that later on it’s OK to become rude and uncooperative!)
HDR programme Aug 2011 - Feb 2012
All sessions in Field House, Bradford Royal Infirmary, 2 – 4.45 pm,
unless otherwise specified
9 Aug |
Introduction |
16 |
Triangular thinking |
23 |
PBL1 |
30 |
PBL2 + start talking about competency presentations |
6 Sep |
Case discussions/competency presentation prep |
13 |
3 tier 1 |
20 |
Smarties presentation – Community Orientation. This is the first of our competency presentations by small groups. The aim is to understand what is meant by the competency, explore the range of things it covers, and learn how to provide evidence for it. This one is on Community Orientation, presented by Smarties group |
27 |
Cons skills with simulators - We will be working in groups of 4 – 6 trainees with a facilitator, doing simulated consultations with patient simulators. Don’t be scared if you haven’t done a session like this before - the aim of the session is to help you develop skills and not to judge or mark you. We always get positive feedback after these sessions, which trainees find both enjoyable and useful. |
4 Oct |
Social prescribing; Is There an Alternative to a FP10? Presentation by Clare Connolly and the social prescriber from Bradford. As part of the session there will also be cases in groups. How can we help patients with issues which affect them without giving them medication? |
11 |
3 tier 2 – The second of our ‘3 tier sessions’ with separate groups for ST1s and 2s in GP posts working on consultation skills, ST1s and 2s in hospital posts working on a range of topics, and ST3s working on CSA preparation. |
18 |
Group C presentation – Managing Medical Complexity. This is the second of our competency presentations by small groups. The aim is to understand what is meant by the competency, explore the range of things it covers, and learn how to provide evidence for it. This one is on Managing Medical Complexity, presented by Group C for Cake |
25 |
Case discussions/competency presentation prep - There are two activities for this session: case discussions and preparation for your group’s presentation on one of the more difficult GP competencies. Smarties and Group C - please bring a case raising clinical, ethical or psychosocial issues. Seychelles and BBBB - please bring ideas for your group’s presentation. |
1 Nov |
Team Seychelles presentation – maintaining an ethical approach. This is the third of our competency presentations by small groups. The aim is to understand what is meant by the competency, explore the range of things it covers, and learn how to provide evidence for it. This one is on Maintaining an Ethical Approach, presented by Seychelles. |
8 |
3 tier 3 - The third of our ‘3 tier sessions’ with separate groups for ST1s and 2s in GP posts working on consultation skills, ST1s and 2s in hospital posts working on a range of topics, and ST3s working on CSA preparation |
15 |
Mock CSA/reattribution or journal club or critical appraisal |
22 |
Group BBBB presentation – Fitness to practise. This is the fourth of our competency presentations by small groups. The aim is to understand what is meant by the competency, explore the range of things it covers, and learn how to provide evidence for it. This one is on Fitness to Practice , presented by Group BBBB. |
29 |
ISCEE |
6 Dec |
3 tier 4 - The fourth of our ‘3 tier sessions’ with separate groups for ST1s and 2s in GP posts working on consultation skills, ST1s and 2s in hospital posts working on a range of topics, and ST3s working on CSA preparation |
13 |
Mock CSA/reattribution or journal club or critical appraisal |
20 |
Arts/poetry at Cartwright Hall? |
3 Jan |
Learning disability |
10 |
3 tier 5 |
17 |
Case discussions |
24 |
Meal out |
31 |
No HDR |
Later sessions – timetable to be confirmed.