Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Merry Christmas

Just a quick message to wish all our trainees, trainers, admin staff and other' list-lurkers' a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

There are no teaching sessions next week, but Tuesday small group teaching sessions for trainees in general practice starts again on Tuesday 3rd January and the whole day teaching sessions for our hospital trainees start on Thursday 12th January.

I wish you all the best for the festive season.

Monday, 12 December 2011

Feedback about hospital posts

At the end of each six months rotation I try and get feedback from trainees about their experiences at our whole day training session, our help in preparing you for MRCGP and of course some feedback about your hospital posts. This time round feedback was generally very good about most of the hospital posts and there were no major issues about workload. Most of you are getting to the whole day training sessions and attendance is nearly 70% on average.

Of course, things can always be improved and there were some specific issues about speciality training in A&E and Medicine and increased workload at DDH when Pinderfields is on GP Divert to DDH. I hope to raise these issues with the relevant people at Mid Yorks but if you have any more issues you think need raising please let me know. Click here to send me an email directly.

Friday, 2 December 2011

What a difference three years make!

The Deanery have recently been looking at attendance at our small group training sessions. They last looked at attendance in 2008 when GP HDR attendance rate was 73%, A&E 12 %, Paeds 40%, O&G 20%, Psychiatry 72% and Medicine 35%.

This time they have looked at 3 months attendance, May to July, 2011 and for hospital specialities the rates have massively increased. In GP HDR rate was 67% but in A&E it ws 60%, Paeds 66%, O&G 65%, Psychiatry 71%, Medicine 71% and Palliative Care 114%.

The target to attend small group teaching sessions is 70% and I think that we are almost hitting that target now.

It is a huge change in attendance for our hospital trainees since 2008, so obviously a whole day works!