Just a quick message to wish all our trainees and blog readers a Happy, Healthy and Successful New Year.
Our small group training sessions start again for trainees in general practice on Tuesday 4th January and the whole day sessions start again on Thursday 6th January at Drighlington.
Best wishes to everyone.
Friday, 31 December 2010
Monday, 20 December 2010
AKT feedback
After each exam round the RCGP publishes feedback about how candidates have done in the exam and gives advice about the broad issues where candidates have done not so well. They have recently published feedback for the October AKT. Click here to go to the RCGP website to read the whole document - its only two pages long and very interesting.
But if you want a brief summary then they gave advice about five specific items.
(1) Answer all the questions. They comment 'that candidates who answered all items performed considerably better than those who did not'. The RCGP says it does not want to encourage guessing in clinical practice but it is a valid examination technique to guess when you are not sure of the answer - you have nothing to lose.
(2) Candidates did not do well on ECG interpretation
(3) Candidates are still unfamiliar with normal childhood development and UK vaccination schedules.
(4) Candidates should revise the diagnostic criteria for diabetes.
(5) Candidates should revise about the safe prescribing of particularly dangerous drugs in practice e.g. methotrexate.
This advice is really good because in the past, issues that candidates have performed poorly on in one AKT get re tested in further AKTs - so this a heads up about what to revise.
But if you want a brief summary then they gave advice about five specific items.
(1) Answer all the questions. They comment 'that candidates who answered all items performed considerably better than those who did not'. The RCGP says it does not want to encourage guessing in clinical practice but it is a valid examination technique to guess when you are not sure of the answer - you have nothing to lose.
(2) Candidates did not do well on ECG interpretation
(3) Candidates are still unfamiliar with normal childhood development and UK vaccination schedules.
(4) Candidates should revise the diagnostic criteria for diabetes.
(5) Candidates should revise about the safe prescribing of particularly dangerous drugs in practice e.g. methotrexate.
This advice is really good because in the past, issues that candidates have performed poorly on in one AKT get re tested in further AKTs - so this a heads up about what to revise.
Monday, 6 December 2010
Dr Richard Adams FRCGP ...
Congratulations to Richard Adams who has recently been appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners because of his services to education. Above is a picture of Richard in his glad rags (note the tie ...) when he recently received his award.
Congratulations and well done.
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