Revalidation for trainees

All doctors with a licence to practice and that includes GP trainees will have to revalidate, usually every five years. In addition when you receive your Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), at the end of your training programme, the Deanery will revalidate you for five years.

Inorder for this to happen all trainees need to complete the enhanced Form R a couple of weeks before your ARCP panel takes place and upload it to your eporfolio. For more information and to find a direct link to Form R click here.

You should already have received a revalidation date from the GMC and if it is the same as your expected CCT date then you don't need to do anything more.

If your expected date of completion of GP training is incorrect then email Joyce Yates and she will correct it.

If you have not not received a revalidation date you need to contact the  GMC directly on 0161 9236277 or by email.

Welcome to newly appointed trainees

A very warm welcome to everyone who has recently been appointed to the Dewsbury, Wakefield and Pontefract GP Training scheme. Congratulations on joining the best scheme in the Deanery and we look forwards to seeing you in August.

The scheme communicates with our trainees and trainers via a private Google group. I have invited all new trainees to the Google group but if you want me to invite you again then email me by clicking here.

Warm Welcome

A very warm welcome to all the new doctors on our training scheme. Just a quick reminder that if you are new to scheme you need to register with the RCGP to get an ePortfolio. You need to do this NOW because otherwise you won't be able to progress towards MRCGP - to register click here.

For trainees in general practice the first Tuesday half day release is on Tuesday 7th August. For trainees in their first GP post the meeting is at Adwalton Surgery, Driglington and for those in ST3 the meeting is at Kings Medical Practice, Normanton - click here for directions.

For trainees in hospital posts for those in Group A the first meeting is on Thursday 16th August and those in Group B on Thursday 23rd August. Click here to see which group you are in. Hospital trainees are meeting at Adwalton surgery in August, September and October and then we are moving to Kings Medical Practice at Normanton over the winter period. Click here for directions.

I look forwards to meeting you!

Yorkshire and Humber Policy on MRCGP fails

We have had an email from the Deanery today advising the approach that the Yorkshire and Humber Deanery is taking to patients who have failed MRCGP either because they have failed WPBA, CSA or AKT. The Deanery has agreed the following approach:

1. Trainees who have failed CSA will be offered up to a 5 month GP based extension to enable them to complete CSA again
2. Trainees who have failed AKT only will be offered a 6 month hospital based extension to training
3. All trainees who have failed can apply for LTFTT, through the normal process, as extending training may allow extra attempts at the exams.

If you have any queries about these options then talk to a TPD ASAP!

Yorkshire and Humber Local Education and Training Board

I am the West Yorkshire GP representative on the interim Yorkshire and Humber Local Education and Training Board. This board will be responsible for commissioning training and education across Yorkshire and Humber to ensure a  competent current and future workforce. Clearly to deliver patient care in the future we need to ensure that there is a secure primary care workforce. It is increasingly become apparent that this will have high priority for the LETB board, but in case it does not I see my role as continually reminding the board about primary care.

 

To read more about the LETB click here http://www.yorksandhumber.nhs.uk/what_we_do/workforce_education_and_training/

 

The board has recently produced its first newsletter - click here to read it http://www.yorksandhumber.nhs.uk/document.php?o=8648  about the board members, background and work programmes.

 

Call me vain but none of the GP members had their photo taken! If you want to see a pretty picture of me click on my blogger profile!

 

http://www.blogger.com/profile/17493517836158922375

Get your ESR done now!

Just a quick reminder that the local ARCP panel for trainees on the DWP scheme is Tuesday 12th June. The panels will look at every ones ePortfolios electronically to determine whether you have made satisfactory progress and whether you can be signed off and either get your CCT or move to the next year of training.

In order to do this all your workplace based assessments  need to have been completed, all the NOE requirements need doing - click here for a link to the NOE requirements on the Deanery website, you need to have a Clinical Supervisors report and then to tie it all together you need to have a completed Educational Supervisors report. In order for ARCP panel members to have time to have read your ePortfolio and assessed your progression your ESR needs doing by the end of the May.

Take home message is you need an ESR meeting by the end of May and if you have not arranged it yet do so now!

Study Leave

The TPDs met last week and clarified the rules about trainees claiming study leave. Briefly we agreed that:

• The budget for individual trainees is per ST year and will run for 12 months when you joined the scheme e.g. if you joined the scheme in August the year for your study leave budget will run from 1st August to 31st July
• Currently you can claim up to £450 per year.
• The individual study leave budget will be reviewed in the light of the outturn for our educational budget.
• Study leave claims must go through the approved hospital and Deanery procedures
• The TPDs have discretion to approve study leave that goes above the annual limit in exceptional circumstance e.g. additional CSA training course for a trainee who has failed CSA.

Hope thats clear!