The Structure of Training in the UK
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Pages: 10 sides of A4 (or less)
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Overall aim of this chapter: to give the reader some sort of visual representation of how GP training works in the UK; how the different bodies are related to each other; where the funding comes from. Don't go into too depth what Deanery, TPDs, Trainers etc do - that's covered elsewhere.
- Read chapter 15 and 16 of Educating the Future GP, Paddy McEvoy
- The regional structure of vocational training - Deanery structure, role and function.
PMETB - structure, role and function
RCGP - structure, role and function
Deanery - structure, role and function
GP Specialist Training Programmes - structure, role and function (don't concentrate too much on the role and function of the programme director or trainer as this is covered elsewhere) - A schematic representation (heirarchical diagram) of the relationship between: Postgraduate Dean, GP Committee, Regional Director, Deputy Directors, Associate Postgraduate Deans (former Associate Directors), Programme Directors, GP Trainers, and Associate Trainers: indicating briefly what each of these roles entails)
- Schemes
- Half Day Release: what's it all about, the varying ways different schemes deliver it with pros and cons
- The GP attachment: dont talk too much about the role of the trainer (covered elsewhere) but concentrate on what can be expected from the post (reference to Form B)
- The hospital component of training - different types of posts eg full time, part time, innovative placements; what each post is expected to deliver on (reference to Form B)
- The Training Programme as a whole
- Something about Form As (what schemes in generally are supposed to deliver on)
- The 3 y programme and how nMRCGP assessments and CCT all fits in (no need to explain nMRCGP components in detailed - covered later)
- How funding works
- COPMED Levy, scheme budgets, section 63
- Commercial sponsorship (i.e. drug companies) : pros and cons (?try and discourage use)
- The 'Slush' fund
- The trainee - how they apply for GP training, the necessary pre-requisites, the application-recruitment-selection journey
- A bit about the regulatory framework for STPGP training in the UK
- Quality Assurance - Form As, Form Bs, PMETB visitations (do not to cover trainer reapprova as this is done elsewherel)
- Other organisations: SCOPME, COPMED, COGPED, SCPMDE (Scotland), WCPMDE (Wales), UKCEA, UKAPD, NAPCE [ch 15 McEvoy]
- The future direction of general practice: how training is still based on the old apprenticeship model (discuss pros and cons) but it is more competency based and showing evidence for those competencies. Dont talk too much about the competency domains (covered elsewhere), but do mention them. Discuss the future of trainers having multiple trainees, the use of Associate Trainers and anything else that comes to your mind.