Brief Notes of Trainer Workshop: 13th May 2010 7pm – 9pm Putnoe Medical Practice
Attendees
Helen Smith, Talib Mearza Sarah Griffith, John Kedward, Vijay Nayar, Simon Wilden, Silke VaharMatiar, , ,., Naeem Choudhry, Maggie Glaze. Peter Wilkinson, Annette Ochola, Emmanuel Ochola
Apologies
Jenny Wilson, Nicola Scott, Toni Munno, Gert Slaghuis, , Mike Baxter,
Standing Apologies
Tim Griffith, David Howard, Robert Butcher Jim Aylward
Business/ matters arising
- Educational Supervision of trainees in hospital posts – JK allocated tese as fairly as possible with
distribution based on future placements. ATs can’t do educational supervisions – this can only be
done by trainers. Funding forms have been circulated – to be sent to Sue Bocock at the Deanery.
Where a practice only has ATs – the supervising trainer/ training practice will do the supervisions
or the practice where they are for ST3.
- Changes to the VTS scheme – a psychiatry post in ST1 and all ST1 posts moved to 3 month posts
from August 2010. An additional medicine post in ST2.
Case Based Discussions – how to do it well
- Sarah Griffith led a discussion on Case Based Discussions. An RCGP demonstration video of a
CBD was shown and discussed. Support material was also distributed. Some attendees had never
done CBDs, some had done a few – others had done many. There was some disquiet about the
final part of the CBD in the video that involved the feedback which was short and not facilitative
or educational. A discussion took place about whether it was appropriate or not to mix the
formative educational discussion with the marking. Some trainers felt comfortable about doing it
that way for practical reasons, and had not run into difficulty.
Future Trainers Workshops and topics
 Thursday 8th July 2010 2pm – 5pm BMI. Effective Feedback. Vijay to
lead
 Tuesday 5th October 2010 7pm – 9pm Putnoe Medical Centre topic TBC
 Thursday 2nd December 2010 2pm – 5pm BMI topic TBC
John Kedward