Education and Training Links
| BRADFORD | |
| Bradford trainers' smartgroup | similar group for our trainers |
| GENERAL PRACTICE EDUCATION | |
| Audit at trent | It is important that GP trainees are fully aware of all the principles of Audit even if they are not submitting one as part of Summative Assessment. This is an excellent website for such learning. |
| Audit with Michael Harris | One of the best websites on audit - Michael Harris is a Bath Course Organiser. |
| Frimley Green | EXCELLENT. Loads of good stuff for trainees and trainers. |
| www.wellclosesquare.co.uk | EXCELLENT. Loads of good training material |
| Worcester VTS | EXCELLENT. Worcester VTS online textbook for general practice. |
| GENERAL PRACTICE TRAINING | |
| DoH VTS WebPages | The Official Complete Guide to the UK VTS Scheme |
| Employment Relations Website | Deals with relationships between workers and their employers, including individual rights as well as collective arrangements.. |
| Yorkshire Deanery Pages | A good set of pages that provide detailed information for the GP trainee; t hings like: Recruitment, Information Booklet for GP trainees, GP trainees' Committee Summer School, Curriculum for General Practice, a Portfolio of Learning. |
| JOURNALS | |
| British Medical Journal | |
| WEB BASED EVIDENCE | |
| Bandolier | Evidence-based health care . In a world increasingly (and rightly) paranoid about unseen bias, Internet visitors should know who produces material on the site and how it is funded. |
| Cochrane Database | The Cochrane Collaboration has developed in response to Cochrane's call for systematic, up-to-date reviews of all relevant RCTs of health care. It is an international organisation that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about healthcare by preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions. It is a not-for-profit organisation. |
| Drugs & Therapeutics Bulletin | Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin is published by Which? Ltd (a subsidiary of Consumers' Association). An eight page, monthly bulletin, it gives rigorous and independent evaluations of drugs and other treatments, and is aimed at doctors and pharmacists. Look up summaries of the latest stuff in the current issue. Good links to other medical drug websites. |
| E-Guidelines | Summarising clinical guidelines for primary care |
| National Prescribing Centre/MEREC | |
| Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) | These Scottish developed guidelines aim to improve the quality of health care for patients by reducing variation in practice and outcome. They are used throughout the UK too! " effective practice based on current evidence"
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| MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR EDUCATIONALISTS | |
| www.aco.org.uk | Association of Course Organisers |