Objectives

Objectives

There are established educational aims and objectives for your year as a GP registrar, and you will get these and details of the day/half day release programme in the next few weeks.

For the first month, however, it is wise to restrict yourself to a single aim and a few key short term objectives:

At the end of the first month in practice you should aim to be a functioning and useful member of your practice team.  To do this you will need to be able to do the following:

1. State the names of each of the members of the primary care team and their main roles and responsibilities in the practice.
2. Describe the concept of patient centred consulting, and how it is applied in general practice.
3. Demonstrate the following IT skills to your trainer – logging on and off the clinical system, entering a consultation entry using the SOAP system/Read codes and use a system template.
4. Explain the use of the MED3/5 sick notes and how to complete a prescription electronically and by hand.
5. Describe the management of common emergency situations in general practice.
6. Describe the management of common general practice clinical problems.

You may also find this list of learning outcomes helpful. It was developed by the BLAST group of trainers.

You will find a list of common and emergency problems in the Wessex GP Registrar learning diary.