Trainer
Appraisal
Requirements
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GMC: need to be appraised in all roles
Format differs between programmes slightly
Northumbria and Durham & Tees broadly
similar
Peer appraisal encouraged for 2:3 years with
face to face appraisal with a TPD done just
before reappointment which is every 3y
New trainers get face to face appraisal for
first 2 years
Trainer Standards
 Download
from Northern Deanery
Website
http://www.northerndeanery.nhs.uk/Norther
nDeanery/primary-care/gp-specialisttraining/information-for-trainers-andtpds/SOPC_Trainer_Standards_v4.7.pdf
PEER APPRAISAL
 Contact
your Peer Partner
 Agree what you will discuss and pre
meeting work
 There is a suggested menu to pick from
 Agree a date and venue
 Inform the Training Programme of these
details
PEER APPRAISAL
 Do
it
 Each Trainer to write it up individually
 Share with Peer
 Add subsequent reflections
 Send final versions to Scheme
 Job done!
 Often this is offered at the Educators
Conference as a workshop
Possible Topics for Discussion
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How has the e-portfolio altered training and tutorials .How can we
combine our old ways of teaching with the new requirements?
Practice Library … what’s in and what’s out?
Useful Websites for the Registrars ... and why.
Useful Websites for the Trainer/Educational Supervisor ... and why.
What to do with the Excellent Registrar?
How to make your Registrar more reflective!
Problem Registrars and documenting their training.
With Problem Registrars, what constitutes competence?
Comparison of training styles between your first and most recent
Registrars …what worked and what to change … and why
How to manage multiple Learners within the Practice?
How can the Practice Manager be best utilised?
What is the best Induction Process?
TPD Appraisal
 Designed
to prepare you for
reappointment
 Done in year before reappointment (3
yearly)
 Tees fill in a grid mapped to the trainer
standards
 Northumbria have their own form
 Cumbria- not much on their website
Checklist developed from the current
reappointment submission
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Be able to outline the developmental needs/PDP from the last 3 Trainer
Appraisals (One to One/Peer) and progress to meeting them
Evidence for Equality and Diversity in the last 3 years
List the last 4 Trainer Workshops/Groups attended and specific Learning
Outcomes
Summarise Learning Outcomes from Educational Conferences and other
Sources since last Reappointment
Premises Accreditation … any changes including IT Systems
Describe Practice Library and other Educational Resources
Percentage of Records summarised
Describe Patient Involvement in the Practice
Last Patient Survey
Describe how Teaching/Management of Chronic Disease Management takes
place
Formulary or alternative
Health and Safety Protocols and Children at Risk/Violent Patient Warnings
SEA experience
Other Evidence
 Submit
a recording of an observed
teaching or CBD
 Submit an audit marked to COGPED
standards
 Be prepared to discuss how your practice
meets trainer standards.
West Cumbria- self appraisal
form
Trainer's name:
Date:
To be completed and submitted to the Training Programme Director
prior to the appraisal visit.
1.
Which particular aspects of your work as a trainer have gone well
over the past year?
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Which particular aspects have not gone as well, or have you
found difficult? How would you like to improve on these?
3.
Are there any other particular areas in training you would like to
develop in the coming year?
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Are there any areas in which the training programme could
improve its' performance to benefit yourself or the training
programme as a whole?
“The Deanery reserves the right to have access to all information held
by the TP on trainers, in the unlikely event that it becomes necessary to
do so”.
Reappointment
 Electronic
form sent to you a couple of
months before you need to submit it
 Important that you gather info in your
annual GP appraisal every year so you
have a record when the time comes to fill
it in
 Important info to record:
Make sure you keep records
of..
 Details
of trainer appraisals
 Last observed teaching
 Equality & Diversity training (3 yearly)
 Trainer Workshops
 GP Educator’s Conferences
 Any other educationally related courses
 Summary from Patient Survey
 Notes audit
Trainer Education
 Tees
5-6 afternoon workshops per year
 Northumbria locality trainer groups
 Educators Conference- 2 days each
Autumn
 New trainer groups run by TPDs for each
programme