Teaching and Education
Teaching and Training Activities
This page is to give you some idea of our teaching and training activities and hopefully give you some useful information if you are thinking of applying for a GP registrar or SHO post.
Useful things to know about us
- We have been a training practice since 1992
- We are attached to the University of Manchester Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Dentistry (www.pgmd.man.ac.uk) through which applications for GP training posts are made
- We consider ourselves to be a training practice by ethos. All the practice take part in training activities for training grade staff or for themselves! This is one of the reasons we are an Investors In People. We are bent upon developing ourselves and any one else we come across!
- Currently there is a GP registrar and an SHO in post
- We are a semi rural, purpose built practice 5 minutes from the M6 motorway
- We run the advanced access appointment system
- We are paperless (well, paper-frugal at any rate) and use the EMIS system (www.emis-online.com)
- Own consulting room
- Library
- Internet access
- On-call through the local cooperative
- Excellent christmas parties!
Trainers
- Jane Munro has been our GP registrar trainer since 1992. She has also completed the advanced trainers course. When she gets a few spare minutes she also coordinates the practice development plan and educational meetings.
- Mike Pollard is our GP SHO trainer. He is also course organiser for the Bolton and Wigan GP training scheme. In his spare time, he is a examiner for the video component of summative assessment and our audit and IT guru.
- Allan Winstanley has formal teaching qualifications, and is a course organiser for the Salford, Trafford and North Manchester GP Registrar Day Release Course. He is also a video and audit examiner for summative assessment, and a Royal College video examiner.
- Lisa Bose and Chris Lancaster are currently working for their training qualifications in between raising small children.
- While you have one key person to guide you through your training, most of the doctors and staff in the practice will lend you a little of their expertise in all sorts of areas.
What can we offer Registrars?
- General experience of the whole gamut of general practice.
- Minor surgery and cryosurgery
- Family planning and obstetrics
- Child health surveillance
- Chronic disease management
- Practice management and finances
- Practice development and personal education plans.
- Preparation for the summative assessment and MRCGP
- protected tutorial time.
- Weekly day release for the Wigan and Bolton training scheme
- Video facilities
- Induction period
- A medical bag, standard diagnostic equipment and drugs.
While there are some basic things that all registrars need to know, you have a major say in determining what learning needs you address. Be prepared for a session on learning needs assessment early in your attachment as well as the inevitable lesson on how to work the computer and the video recorder.
Bolton and Wigan GP STP
If you would like more information about the GP Specialty Training Programme in this area, please visit the Bolton and Wigan GP STP website (www.gpvts.org.uk)