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 Vicky 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!)

 

• Click here to see which HDR group you are in

 

HDR programme Feb - Aug 2010

 

 

Feb 16 and 23 – problem based learning
Mar 2 – separate ST years session
Mar 9 – Ethics (Hasna)
Mar 16 – Dementia and Nursing Homes (Lucy leading plus other TPDs)
Mar 23 – Genetics (Jude Hayward)
Mar 30 – mock CSA session, plus another session

?Later –
Child Health (possibly ISCEE format)
Consultation skills including the computer