Supporting GP Trainees Who Are ‘Out of Sync’

Dr Emily Edwards, Professor Johnny Lyon-Maris, Dr Samantha Scallan, Dr Kelly Thresher

Background
Over the last few years a number of trainees have found themselves training ‘out of sync’ with their peers. The reasons for this are various. It became apparent that the rolling programme of the Day Release Course (DRC) was not meeting the learning needs of these trainees, and in many cases they had completed the cycle of DRC sessions, but had not yet completed their training.

Summary of Work
In 2013/14 there were sufficient OOS GPSTs to warrant setting up a learning set independent of the DRC programme to support them through to the completion of training. The group met every two weeks for 1 session, and was facilitated by an experienced PD (KT). An initial learning needs analysis identified topics for the first few sessions, and subsequently sessions were determined by the group, based upon the needs they brought from their clinical practice, as well as using PBSGL. The sessions were evaluated by a focus group. Participants were asked to reflect on their training, their learning needs, the nature of the group and its strengths and weaknesses.

Findings
Overall participants reported that the learning on the DRC was not always timely. Previously support had been sought from the trainer in--‐practice and peers. The OOS group was found to be extremely supportive, but in different ways to the DRC, which will be described on the poster.

Conclusions
‘Out of sync’ trainees may require a different type of support compared to trainees on the usual ‘run through’ programme.

 

Conferences

Title Type
DEMEC 2015 Poster presentation
RCGP Conference 2014 Poster presentation

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