We had a very interesting Joint Trainers Workshop yesterday which was titled 'Helping Trainees with Difficulties'. I had invited Nick Whelan, the Deanery Performance Tutor, to come along and talk/be an expert resource. Nick meets all doctors who have failed one of the components of MRCGP and had some very helpful and useful insights in how to help trainees who are having difficulties.
There were actually two different agendas. Trainers and Educational Supervisors were interested in what to do with their trainees and supervisees who they thought were running into difficulties, whereas Nick was very keen to get trainers to do more consultation skills training. We spent some time looking at how we could do this.
One of the issues that arose was that trainers maybe spending more time on observing consultations for COTs and less on teaching consultation skills. There, of course, is a tension between assessment and teaching but it is clearly possible to teach consultation skills and do a COT with the same material. But the only way that we (as trainers) will have enough time to do this is to let some things go. One of the things we can let go of is the 'Topic Tutorial'.
The 'Topic Tutorial' is dead, long live 'Consultation Teaching'. Hip, hip, hurrah...
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