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Something New is COMING...
FROM 1st SEPT
Watch this space over the next month or two. It’s going to be big and exciting and is something separate to this website.
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WHAT'S NEW?
02.04.21: Search Medicina – best medical search engine. Stop patients thinking you are googling. Get the information you want in an instant.
06.03.21: Quicklinks, Induction & Roadmaps – see section below. Great for new trainees.
04.02.21: The RCA webinars – 4 great webinars (1h each). For trainers & trainees. Trainees – understand exactly how to pass. Trainers – learn how you can help your trainee.
BITS AND BOBS
- Don’t forget to look at www.searchmedicina.com
- New COVID-19 treatments (neutralising monoclonal antibodies or anti-retrovirals) will be available from 16 Dec 2021 to high risk non-hospitalised patients. Click here to read more.
- PANORAMIC – is a new nation study to review the effectiveness of antivirals in COVID – and they need help. Could you help? This provides an opportunity to develop experience and competence in research activity. Click here to read more.
Please Donate
Dear Trainees & Trainers,
Please donate just a little something – event £20. Every little bit helps to keep Bradford VTS alive & subscription free.
Want to Join A Balint Group?
Are you interested in joining an online Balint group? TRAINERS & TRAINEES WELCOME.
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 different career stages. The facilitators are Andrew Wilson (general practice background) and Alison Summers (psychoanalytic therapy and psychiatry). We ask a minimum of a six month commitment, and make a charge of £20 per session per person. If you would like further information or to be considered for this group, please email
RCA Webinars - the feedback - What People are Saying
Data Gathering + InterPersonal Skills
Clinical Mx + InterPersonal Skills
The RCA Marking Sheet – part a
The RCA Marking Sheet – part b
A New GP induction Workbook
I’ve written a new book called The Essential GP Induction Handbook. The aim of this is to add structure to the induction period and have everything you need in ‘one place’. In my practice, we actually do the things in this book spaced out over a period of 4-6 weeks – so as not to hurry the process or overwhelm the learners. This Induction to GP workbook is precisely that – a workbook to be physically used and written in. Full of tools and activities to make induction come alive – all organised in a sequential way to take the headache out of planning. Sections that are clearly marked for home reading, or tutorials when back in the practice. A perfect aide-memoire for both parties. GP Induction has never been made easier – the first book of its kind. Although the workbook is available in print and kindle format, I suggest the print version as it is meant to be a practical handbook. At our practice we buy one for each GP trainee. So, this time we bought 6 – one of whom is an FY doc. It means they all go through an equivalent standardised induction process, with all the important elements covered. It also looks neat and professional than the flimsy bits of paper we have dished out in the past. And the best bit is this – the ones I have given it to have always had a face of delight upon receiving it – a bit like they’ve been given a little gift – which of course they have. And at £14.99 per book it’s relatively inexpensive – so for all 6 of our trainees to get inducted in a structured easy way cost the practice £90. A snip. Proceeds go towards supporting Bradford VTS and keeping it free.
As for your practice-specific information, download this template. Fill in your bits, print and then slide it into the workbook. Voila! All done. Nice and easy.
BULK PURCHASES
If you wish to order in bulk for your scheme, consider contacting me directly to make the process easier.
Quicklinks, Induction & Roadmaps
Blog Posts
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Manifest Success
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
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Shared Decision Making
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
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The Power of Silence
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
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Should you go to pharma sponsored educational meetings?
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.
"The highest education is that which merely does not give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence"
Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941 (Bengladeshi polymath) Tweet
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Did you know: Bradford VTS doesn’t get much money from large external sources. In fact, a lot of the funding comes out of our own pocket and contributions from kind people – mostly your trainers.
We try to keep the site as FREE as possible. Occasionally we ask for money for the odd resource. We rely on this bit of money to help fund us. We don’t ask for much as you can see (compare it to the 100s you pay for courses). We hope you think we are reasonable and fair.
Please, please, please contribute. It is an unfortunate fact that most of our funding comes from GP trainers and very little from Trainees. If you would like to change this, then please click on the contribution page here.
Bradford VTS was created in 2002 for one main reason – to simply create a platform where we can share ideas, knowledge and skills so that we can co-create to produce wonderful new things effortlessly. We have stood the test of time… Bradford VTS is made with ❤ by Dr Ramesh Mehay and others, often in our spare time.
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Since 2001
Yes, that’s right. The Bradford VTS website has been helping GP Trainees and Trainers since 2001. If you want to take a look at an early version (2004) of our website, click here.
The aim of this website has always been…
to facilitate the development of doctors who are reflective practitioners.
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