06 Jun 2008
Most practising GPs will at some stage teach junior staff or less-informed colleagues - GP ...
. Those who are GP appraisers or medical examiners may not have any other teaching role. If teaching ...
, you will be enabling the GP being appraised to prepare and complete their learning plan ...
04 Nov 2010
| by Dr Linda Miller
A GP trainer supervises a trainee during their time in practice. This includes inducting ...
the broad experience necessary to become a GP and to pass the MRCGP exam.
Weekly half-day release ...
a parent for the first time may well coincide with GP training and the trainer should be able ...
21 Oct 2010
GPs have called for more opportunities for young members of the profession to develop...Dr Clare Taylor, CPD fellow for the RCGP's First5 initiative, which supports new GPs from completion of training to the first point of revalidation at five years, said young GPs could feel isolated and unable to take on leadership roles.
'Young GPs can feel disempowered, they are often salaried GPs ...
16 Sep 2010
| by Dr Rodger Charlton
you have learnt and what you have changed. If you have an extended role, such as being a GP teacher or GPSI, include material in your PDP relating to this.
Dr Charlton is a GP principal and GP ...
15 Apr 2010
they are not. Many GPs start their careers as locums, to gain experience or from necessity. Locum work is part of portfolio GPs' working lives and is a common pre-retirement step. For some GPs it is a long ...
is not everyone's cup of tea. Locums forgo the classic source of GPs' professional satisfaction: continuity ...
The GP contract will be simplified to free GPs from DoH and NHS management interference, health...In an exclusive interview with GP , Mr Lansley said the NHS Commissioning Board - which ...
to be minor, Mr Lansley says a move to a single GP contract will bring 'clarity and simplicity' to primary care.
The new contract should encourage GPs to build their own services but without interference ...
29 May 2009
| by Dr Richard Fieldhouse
For GP locums, revalidation is like DIY car maintenance....Unlike GPs working in conventional practices with ready access to close-at-hand resources, GP ...
credits. MOT tests Revalidation is akin to a MOT test. As with cars, there are different GP 'types ...
; and of course, GP locums. My main car is a youngish second-hand VW Golf. It is safe, efficient and performs ...
It was a Friday and I had to be home by seven because Tesco was coming with the food delivery and it won't leave it with children in case it gets into the Daily Mirror.
14 Oct 2010
| by Editorial
There's a call to start identifying GP consortia leaders on the letters page of this week's GP...Elsewhere in GP, Dr Richard Fieldhouse, chief executive of the National Association of Sessional GPs, argues that locum GPs' independence makes them best placed to lead commissioning consortia ...
than a large number of practices.
GP ran its first locums conference last week and impending ...
More than two-thirds of GPs believe doctors who fail revalidation should not be forced to pay...The GP opinion survey found that 68% of 200 GPs who took part thought doctors should ...
remediation. GP locum Dr Timothy Cantor said: Revalidation is meant to be for the protection of the public ...
remediation.
GPC chairman Dr Laurence Buckman warned that compelling GPs to pay for remediation could ...