North Northumberland Trainers Group

Trainer group meeting held on Thursday 11 Novembter 2004 at Embleton Hall, Longframlington. 

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Members present: 

Caroline, Saul (definitely), Stephen, Billy, Karen, David, Graham, Alan.

Apologies: 

Gordon, Gary, Chris S, Alistair

 

Minutes of the last meeting accepted.

Reporting in - this was lively as usual and started a discussion about how to decide the appropriate length of the consultation that the registrar should be having and how to deal with an anxious registrar. It was felt that assessment tools such as Patient satisfaction survey, P2D2 and STAR forms may be helpful to get feedback that can then be used to start an appraisal of the registrar. It was also suggested that monitoring referral by the registrar would be helpful though could also be a bit "big-brotherish".

OOH
Billy spoke to Maureen Taylor who informed him that the training of registrars is not on their aganda at the moment!!. A letter from Tim shows that there will hopefully be OOH clinical supervisors by Jan 05-how exactly this will work is known yet. At present registrars have a workbook to get completed but ? everyone doing this and how to tackle now until Jan. Some trainers are doing OOH sessions and most would be prepared to have a registrar along with them. It was left that those trainers would send round dates of shifts possible and any trainer/registrar wanting to use these for OOH training will contact them. There is the question of who has ultimate responsibility for the registrar at such sessions.
Billy will write to Tim expressing our wishes for issues to be looked at for Jan 05:
* Number to ring to find shift availability
* Specific OOH trainers
* Control of workload on shifts where training is occuring
* Who is responsible for the registrar's actions?

CENTRAL TEACHING
as both Brad and Gary were away this has been left to the next meeting.

INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMES
we are all doing similar things but the length of the programmes varies from 10 days to 4 weeks.. Saul uses parallel surgeries which all agreed could be a good idea instead of loads of sitting in. Everyone gets positive feedback on the programmes so we need to keep doing them.

NEXT YEAR
Billy and Karen are due to resign from there posts as chairperson and scribe so volunteers are needed. The timetable for next year is:
13/1/05-6-8pm with evening meal
3/3/05-2-5pm
12th and 13th May-annual conference
7/7/05-6-8pm with evening meal
8/9/05-2-5pm
3/11/05-6-8pm with evening meal.

NEXT MEETING
Curriculum Planning
Appraisal-Reflective Practice
Trainer's rating scale-if anyone has a copy please could they pass some copies around.
 

Future meetings

On the minutes page.

Brad Cheek: December 28, 2006