VTS Trainers' Workshops
Workshop topic list 2011-2018
2011
July: Workshop structure agreed; appraisals
September: Reflective learning; what we do well
November: COT calibration and OOH
2012
January: Organising tutorials, what works well
March: Joint with trainees; Finding out about each other
May: LETBs, financing workshop; Eportfolio entries
July: Preparing trainees for next steps & COT calibration
September: Trainees in Difficulty; IMGs
November: CSA “why might my trainee fail” & London Deanery visit
2013
January: CBD & RCGP “Talking the Talk”
March: Clare Gerada Q&A; Humanities and medical education
May: Sarah Bruml, WPBA and ESR
July: Induction and COT calibration
Sept: Workplace Based Learning; Peer support; new AD
November: Health Coaching by Laurence Blumberg
2014
January: inter professional education
March: Jamie Reed shadow minister for health Q&A / peer review of teaching (joint with trainees)
May: multiple trainees in GP
July: CBD discussion and calibration
September: Indicators of potential underperformance; tutorial examples and planning
Nov: Results of trainee survey, why we train (our core values) ideas for workshop
2015
January: Visit from Anwar Khan AD & John Launer, New patch AD Naheed Khanlodhi; CEPS and new trainer application form
March: Mike Fitzpatrick on GP
Feedback: giving and receiving feedback joint with trainees
May: PSU; COT calibration exercise and use of CEPS
July: New registrars – exciting induction, checklist of things to cover, how to hit the ground running, what helps in first few weeks, how to embed them in the team ASAP; ARCP Outcome 5s and workshop response
September: Organisation management and leadership; Reflective writing for the e-portfolio
November: David Price HENCEL AD: The Ed Sup Review
2016
January : supervising the anxious trainee, OOH training provision CHUHSE with Alex Kelly, Jonathon Tomlinson recent summary of paper on Anxiety in Trainees.
March: Steve Mowle (speaker, treasurer RCGP) reasons to be optimistic; group work: Peer review of ESRs joint with learners
May: CBD Calibration and discussion
July: Preparing for learner lift-off: poems and results of exit survey
September: preparing learners for CSA and considering why we like patients
Nov: Reassurance
2017
January: Role models, GP LEO came to talk about new junior dr contract
March: Generation theory, visit from naureen Bhatti (head of school) and Naheed Khanlodhi (AD); speaker – Jonathan McShane Head of Health and Social Care Hackney Council
May: Dyslexia and Med professionals, OOH update
July: Calibration exercise: COT
Sept: Interprofessional Education, the CEPN, patients in med ed, the new JD contract, experiences
November: Residential. Highlights and challenges of the training year, team building, TIDs, Intelligent Kindness, The Wounded Healer, Gratitude
2018
January: COT calibration; meeting the new AD Munir Ali Zubair
March: joint with VTS: Giskin Day Medical Humanities and Gratitude; JT shame; Business inc telephone COT
May: Home visits, Ed Sup Notes
July: Favourite tutorials
September: EOL Care, Reflective log
calibration, Education for Social Justice
November (residential): Review of the year, highs and lows, review of best workshops; professionalism, John Spicer, Bias in Professionalism, Trainee feedback
2019
January: CBD calibration
March: Feedback, leadership, joint with VTS
May: Support for return to practice
July: The new prescribing pilot
Sept: COT Calibration, Power
Nov: Residential: Race and differential attainment
2020
Jan: Trainees who have failed CSA
March: Cancelled (COVID)
May: ARCP
July: New Portfolio and WBPA
Sept: Audio COT Calibration
Nov: Educating for inequalities
2021
Jan: RCA and the ESR
March: Caroline Elton – Also Human – the inner lives of doctors
