The universal GP Training website for everyone, not just Bradford. Created in 2002 by Dr Ramesh Mehay
Listen Compassionately By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) When we run our resilience courses, delegates often describe having their energy drained when they interact with patients. We have all experienced this, but the question is, are patients taking our energy from us or are we giving […]
Where are we with Wellbeing? a reflection By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) Unfortunately, the statistics are rather dismal: The GMC national training survey 2021 reports that: 33% of trainees feel burnt out to a high/very high degree because of their work. Three in five trainees
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TRAINERS & TRAINEES WELCOME Want to join a balint group? Are you interested in joining an online Balint group? We have vacancies in a group on the third Wednesday each month, 7-8.30 pm, and are keen to recruit GPs and GP trainees. This is a mixed group, welcoming people from different professional backgrounds and at
Manifest Success The state of being comfortable, healthy or happy. By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) With the arrival of the first of January comes expectations to set New Year’s resolutions. Common ones are to do more exercise or introduce other healthier lifestyle choices, driven largely
Shared Decision Making The state of being comfortable, healthy or happy. By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) As GPs, we are expected to assume clinical risk. We cannot refer every patient who comes to see us. We take a considered history and perform a clinical examination.
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The Power of Silence By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) NHSE data from March 2021 states that 7 million consultations are carried out in General Practice every week. The traditional model of 15 face-to-face appointments in a 2.5-hour surgery that is repeated in the afternoon is
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Should you go to pharma sponsored educational meetings? medical educational meetings – why the pharma fuss? By Bradford VTS The short answer is we don’t think you should – i.e. NO. You’ll find many medical educators who are dead against using any form of pharmaceutical sponsorship for meetings of any kind. But back in the
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Mindful Consulting How are your consultations going lately? By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) How are your consultations going lately? The huge increase in telephone consulting we have seen due to the pandemic has changed the way that we interact with our patients. It has fundamentally
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Doctor, you can be less stressed By Susan Kersley Personal Development & Work Balance Doctor Notice how your most stressed colleagues get through their day: They never take a break for lunch because they haven’t time to get through the patients anyway. They take work home with them because there is so much to do
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Wellbeing Tips for Thriving in Surgery The state of being comfortable, healthy or happy. By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) General Practice can be tough; in March 2021 we carried out 15 million consultations! We have a very limited time with patients and they come one
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Bradford VTS was created by Dr. Ramesh Mehay, a Programme Director for Bradford GP Training Scheme back in 2001. Over the years, it has seen many permutations. At the time, there were very few resources for GP trainees and their trainers so Bradford decided to create one FOR EVERYONE.
So, we see Bradford VTS as the INDEPENDENT vocational training scheme website providing a wealth of free medical resources for GP trainees, their trainers and TPDs everywhere and anywhere. We also welcome other health professionals – as we know the site is used by both those qualified and in training – such as Associate Physicians, ANPs, Medical & Nursing Students.
Our fundamental belief is to openly and freely share knowledge to help learn and develop with each other. Feel free to use the information – as long as it is not for a commercial purpose.
We have a wealth of downloadable resources and we also welcome copyright-free educational material from all our users to help build our rich resource (send to bradfordvts@gmail.com).
Our sections on (medical) COMMUNICATION SKILLS and (medical) TEACHING & LEARNING are perhaps the best and most comprehensive on the world wide web (see white-on-black menu header section on the homepage).