Our On-Line Resources

Regius Society of Bath & Swindon/Bath GPR Day Release Course

Our Curriculum for the GP Registrar year

Outcome-Based Curriculum - devised by the Swindon and Bath Trainer Groups.


Our On-line Study Guides

The First Month - a super study guide for your first month as a GP Registrar.

Brush up your Consultation Skills - a study guide designed for F1 doctors, but relevant to all doctors.

Guide for GP Registrars - a brief guide to education and assessment in the GP Registrar year.

Audit Study Guide - a simple introduction to medical audit and advice on the Summative Assessment audit.

How to get the Best out of Tutorials - some suggestions on how to plan and structure your tutorials.

Learning opportunities in the GP Registrar year - suggested learning outcomes for GPR attachments to 41 different allied health professionals.

Primary Care Research - this is an introduction to research in Primary Care.

Gastroenterology Masterclass - James Blackstock's excellent masterclass.

Choosing a Practice - a guide to choosing the practice and type of work that's right for you.

The last month - tasks for the last month of the GPR year; designed for trainers, but helpful for GPRs.

 

Building a Portfolio  - a tool-kit for building your portfolio and Personal Learning Plan.

Consultation skills - this study guide for F1 doctors is designed to help them brush up their consultation skills.


For GP Registrars - DRC Guides and Resources

Autumn/Winter 2006/7 Spring/Summer 2007

CO-authored presentations

Medical ethics (1)

Leadership skills

Stress and burnout (1)

Stress and burnout (2)

Assertiveness

GPR-authored presentations

Nicola Hill's GPR year survival guide

Travel medicine

End of life issues (1Mb)

Physical activity: benefits and hazards

Home births

Denial and collusion

Concordance

Fitness to drive

CO-authored presentations

Guide to Qualitative Research

Home visiting

Substance misuse

Heartsinks

Ethics 2

GPR-authored presentations

CBT in 10 minutes

Communicating risk

Appraisal

Autumn/Winter 2005/6 Spring/Summer 2006

CO-authored presentations

 

Dealing with uncertainty

The New NHS

Personal Development Plans (1)

GPR-authored presentations

Insomnia (PowerPoint)

Illicit drugs (PowerPoint)

Hypertension and ASCOT (PowerPoint)

Flu pandemic (PowerPoint)

HRT (PowerPoint)

Access to medical records

CO-authored presentations

GPs and Pharma (1)

Teamwork

 

GPR-authored presentations

Planning your GPR year (PowerPoint)

MRCGP study group exam constructs

Our Health (white paper)

Restless legs

Autumn/Winter 2004/5 Spring/Summer 2005

Review paper on the evidence for portfolios

The New Contract

Living wills and advance directives

Aggressive patients

Staff and personal safety

Choosing & using guidelines

Health needs of asylum seekers and refugees

Health of the socially excluded

Benefits

Critical appraisal skills

Stress and burnout (3)

GPs and Pharma (2)

Legal letters and reports

Guidance on insurance reports

Autumn/Winter 2003/4 Spring/Summer 2004

Personal Development Plans (2)

Choosing a practice

Complementary medicine

Time management

Autumn/Winter 2002 Spring/Summer 2003

Critical appraisal skills

Clinical governance and appraisal

Finance

Substance misuse - useful links

Sexual health

The new contract

Medically unexplained physical symptoms

The MRCGP exam

Continuity of care

Evidence-based medicine

Problem-solving

Risk management

Useful internet sites for GP Registrars - Mark Dinwoodie's list of 40-odd sites that you will find useful in the GPR year.

Summary of the things that you are supposed to do in the last month of the GPR year - by Nicky Weldon.


For Trainers

Complete Survival Guide for Trainers - a detailed toolbox for new and potential Trainers, written by the Trainers of the Regius Society of Bath. This is the revised, 2006 version.

Self- and Peer- Assessment Tool for GP Trainers - a validated tool for formative assessment of trainers by trainers.

Top Tips for Trainer - produced by the Regius Society of Bath.

Outcome-Based Curriculum - the Curriculum for the GP Registrar year, devised by the Swindon and Bath Trainer Groups.

Learning outcomes for the GPR's first month, developed by the BLAST trainers' group.

Summary of Training Group Activities 2004

The last month - tasks for the last month of the GPR year.

 

See the Regius Society page for a list of individual Bath area Trainer Groups.


Recommended books

Medical Statistics Made Easy - an order form for Michael Harris's book on medical statistics. It costs £12.99, and is written in the same, easy-to-follow format as this website. It is designed specifically for the MRCGP exam.

Top Tips for GP Registrars, by Knut Shroeder (ex-Bath GPTVS);

The GP Registrar Survival Guide: we've managed to arrange a 10% discount for GP Registrars who order this and related books, click here for information on them and here for an order form;

The Inner Consultation, by Roger Neighbour;

Concepts and answers for the MRCGP oral exam - written by Prashini Naidoo, who was a GP Registrar on the DRC three years ago.

Oxford Handbook of General Practice, also by an ex-Bath GPR.

 

Last update: 23 November 2008