The universal GP Training website for everyone, not just Bradford. Created in 2002 by Dr Ramesh Mehay
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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).
Reflection needs to be on something that troubles you or is interesting
Structured tools help the trainee who finds it difficult to reflect
Gibbs may be useful as a debriefing tool for emotionally demanding cases
The ‘action plan’ may be putting the issue to bed- not ruminating or worrying about it any more
Ideally use with trainees who struggle with reflection- provides a structure
Also good to use in highly emotionally charged situations eg complaints
– the importance of engaging with your feelings when reflecting not just describing.
– important method of gaining insight and developing as a professional.
– the Gibbs structure can be used to structure debriefing a difficult case with a trainee
Re-visiting Gibbs useful. Especially for more diff difficult problems involving emotive elements
For those of you who attended Ram’s “reflective log entries in 4 ridiculously easy steps” – where does this fit in?
Answer – in the first or second step: “Write about the case”/”Quickly work out what you want to write about” – get them to write a very quick reflection about the case (within 5 mins, and not too long) and a way of adding structure to this is by using Gibbs cycle.
Great question whoever asked it.