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This section of the website is designed to help you create your own perfect innovative post. If you fancy doing a minimum of 50% in general practice but with a variable amount of the remaining time in either one or two specialties, please read on. We hope that this will widen the breadth of your experience. This is how it works:
- You have to do a minimum of 50% of your planned post in General Practice; you can of course do 60% or 70% too, but 50% is the minimum
- You can then choose how to spend the remainder of the time. You may want to get some experience in a couple o specialties or just stick to the one. What will help you determine this is if you spend some time reflecting on your needs. Perhaps do some general practice MCQs covering a wide range of subjects and see which areas you didn't perform so well and hence a need.
- Once you've decided which specialties you need more exposure to, the rest is simple. Just click on the relevant document above (in the downloads section - please bear with us whilst we try to populate this section). This will tell you what clinics, services and other experience is out there in Bradford to help satisfy your learning need.
- Look at the document and decide which clinics/services you think might be worthwhile attending. You don't have to go to say one particular clinic for the duration of your post. You could just attend 5 clinics if you felt that would be enough and then go to a different clinic. Map out which clinics you would like to go to and when.
- Then, simply ring the contact person on the sheet and see if they can accomodate you.
Simple.
Seriously, think about this is you fancy designing your own post suited to your particular needs.
Please visit this particular page often as more documents covering a wider specialty range will be uploaded soon.
How Do I Engage the Consultant?
Hi
I’m one of the GP trainees on the Bradford scheme. I was wondering whether it would be okay for me to attend x sessions with you at your yyyyy clinic that you run on zzzz days. Of course, it wouldn’t simply be me sitting and observing but I would be a free pair of hands that could help you with your clinic list for that session. Hopefully you’d have more time with other patients whilst I saw some too. Of course, I am relatively inexperienced but I do pick up things pretty quickly.
What do you think?
The clinic might look something like this
0900 trainee
0920 consultant
0940 consultant
1000 trainee
1020 consultant
1040 consultant
1100 trainee
1120 consultant
1140 consultant
As you can see, the consultant may only need 20 mins to see a patient, but the trainee who is just starting off will need more time. In this example, the trainee has up to 40 minutes to take a good history and examine; with time, they'll get better. The consultant won't feel pressured because instead of spending 2 1/2 hours in a clinic and trying to 'squeeze' in educational input, they end up working 1 1/2 hours with time freed for educational delivery. Result = stress free consultant, stress free trainee = both parties happy.