Would you like to become a Trainer?

Arguably the best job in Primary Care!!

The newly formed Severn and Wessex Deanery which is now the third largest in the country and covers the 6 counties of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucestershire would like to attract more GPs to become GP trainers.

We currently have over 490 trainers based in 400 practices scattered throughout the Deanery. Each year we have over 250 trainees needing placements. These can be in a variety of posts from the standard GP Registrar to a GP Returner; from a Trust Attached GPR to a Remedial placement; a doctor on the Accelerated Route Scheme to a GP PRHO; the list goes on and the opportunities and variation enormous.

In August 2005 the Foundation years, F1 and F2, replace the PRHO and the first SHO year for all newly qualified doctors. From August 2006 55% of these doctors will have the opportunity to experience General Practice for between 3-4 months. In the following year funding is available for 80%. In practical terms this means that next August over 250 doctors will have the chance to experience General Practice as a specialty in its own right at the beginning of their careers and nearly 400 in August 2007.

We would like all these extra placements to occur within training practices and as such are looking to expand out GP Trainer base to ensure we have sufficient capacity to accommodate not only those in the Foundation Programme but also to continue giving the excellent training opportunities for our GP Registrars etc.

If you are interested in becoming a trainer and would like more information please visit our website on http://www.gpschoolseverninstitute.org.uk/, contact your local Patch Associate Director through your Postgraduate Centre or give Moira Linden a ring on 01962 893813.