This book not only answers some of the common questions that you may encounter at various stages of your training, but that it also helps you to avoid making some of the mistakes that we made along the way and therefore leads you to successful accomplishment of the MRCGP. The content is based on a combination of fact, opinion, whinges expressed over coffee at VTS teaching, and some handy hints and tips that people going through it have kindly shared with me on social nights out.
So scribble in it, spill tea on it, and make it your own. This is your book to accompany you through the next three to five years of your career and it brings you a couple of laughs along the way.
GP training is a fantastic opportunity that should be embraced with both arms and given the credit that it deserves for producing such well-rounded competent doctors.
Enjoy!
Key Features
- Provides technical information on how to complete the ePortfolio and fill in essential forms.
- Includes handy tips and information about common pitfalls
- Ordered chronologically, taking trainees from the application stage through to qualification.
- Written by a recently qualified GP.
Contents
Part 1: Pre VTS
- 1: The million dollar question: do you want to be a GP?
- 2: Jumping through the right hoops to get on the training scheme
Part 2: Early ST1
- 3: You've got a training post - congratulations!
- 4: What lies ahead? Introduction to the assessment process.
- 5: The ePortfolio explained
- 6: Supervisors, trainers and how to make the most of your meetings
- 7: The money stuff
- 8: Your hospital posts and how they differ to the foundation years
- 9: How to get the best out of your regional VTS teaching
Part 3: Early ST2
- 10: The move into general practice and how it differs from hospital medicine
- 11: Your first GPST post and some basic tips on how to survive!
- 12: Stop and check! Are you ready for your ARCP panel review?
- 13: Thinking ahead and how to make yourself more employable at the end of it all
- 14: Thinking about applying for AKT? Some handy hints and tipsEL
- 15: Life events and changes that may affect your training
- 16: Having a baby and becoming a LTFT
Part 4: Early ST3
- 17: Out of hours (OOH) and learning to juggle the EWTD again
- 18: CSA looms...how to stay focussed and some tips for success
- 19: The job race!
- 20: Preparing to leave the nest
- 21: Surviving as a locum (and making sure you fill in the right forms)
Part 5: Post VTS
- 22: Life after the VTS (and where to go for support after leaving your trainer)
- 23: Revalidation and appraisal
- 24: If your question isn't answered in any of the above...
About the Author
- Lucy Blunt qualified as a doctor in 2004 from Leicester Medical School. She joined the Coventry and Warwickshire VTS Scheme in 2006, and became a Faculty Instructing doctor for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in 2009. In August 2009 she qualified as a GP, and is currently working part-time as a sessional GP in Stratford Upon Avon. Lucy started working as a GPwSI in Gynaecology in September 2010.
Product Details
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0199590265
- ISBN-13: 978-0199590261
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
List Price: $42.95