Educational Programmes and Schemes
Welcome to the GP school at Severn Deanery for your training in general
practice. We hope that you will find your time here stimulating, rewarding
and enjoyable. Our aims for general practice training within the School are:
- To produce trained doctors who are clinically competent to work as
principals and non-principals in general practice;
- To ensure that doctors in training have a basic understanding of
management, information technology, the role of other primary care staff,
the NHS and budgeting, enabling them to work as members of primary health
care teams;
- To help doctors in training to develop skills to underpin their
clinical practice with the principles of evidence-based medicine and
professional judgement;
- To ensure that all doctors have the skills for, and a commitment to,
lifelong learning.
Doctors intending to work in general practice are required to
satisfactorily complete a recognised programme of vocational training. This
includes a period in a teaching practice where they are expected to learn
about the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic illness, the
provision of anticipatory care and health promotion. There should be
opportunities to learn about practice management, teamwork, standard setting
and how practices relate to the hospital, social and voluntary services. At
the end of training they will be expected to satisfy national
Summative
Assessment and are encouraged to take the
MRCGP examination.
Training for general practice is supervised nationally by the
PMETB.
The board issues guidance to Deaneries on quality standards for teaching and
ensures the implementation of these standards via a rigorous programme of
quality assurance visits.
Dr Bill Irish. Head, School of General Practice, Severn Deanery.
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