Volume 3

LEADING ARTICLES

Video feedback and video phobia: a rationale and a remedy
Peter Campion

Medical advisers to Family Health Services Authorities
John Bligh

Practice-based small group learning
Ian Stanley

Postgraduate education for general practice - starting again
Noel Boaden

The PGEA two years on
John Hasler

Have model - will travel
Bob Jones

ARTICLES

Three practical training techniques: Part 2 Training others in their use
John Marwick
How to pass on your new-found training skills to your trainer group. It should make the group buzz.

The one-minute trainer - Part 2
John Clayden
Motivation by one-minute encouragement.

A trainee Balint group
John Salinsky
A group finds the going tough and the leader discovers that a tape recorder is the most disruptive member. Two experienceD group leaders comment on what happened.

Taking the lid off: observations on the process of palliative care education for general practitioners
Rod MacLeod and Ann Nash
Exploring doctors’ feelings about looking after the dying. Two facilitators help to raise the lid in a controlled way.

A course in counselling for GP trainees
Peter Havelock, Robert Nathan and Yvonne Cooper
An effective course teaching counselling skills.

An interdisciplinary course on asthma and diabetes in general practice
Roger Pietroni and Mark Levy
GPs and practice nurses working together to produce protocols for two chronic diseases.

Teleconference: a region’s experience in their use for postgraduate medical education
Ralph Johnson and Michael Harvey
Dissemination of education by telephone is not new. Hearing the speaker without seeing him could be and advantage!

General practitioners’ PGEA: the first six months
Ali AlShehri
A detailed survey gives important information on GPs’ attitudes to their continuing education.

A regional programme in the West of Scotland to meet the demands of the postgraduate education allowance
Stuart Murray, George Dyker and Malcolm Campbell
Scottish GPs subscribe to a ‘flat rate’ education scheme.

Training teachers to teach communication skills: a problem-based approach
Linda Gask, Tim Usherwood and Sally Standart
A detaileD method for teaching consulting skills, either in a group or one-to-one.

The one-minute trainer - part 3
John Clayden
The one-minute disappointment. How to value your trainees so that they value themselves.

General practice training in psychiatry
Peter Donnelly, James Deans and Terry Reilly
A survey by psychiatrists shows their SHO posts are not providing GP trainees with relevant experience. Such internal audit is most likely to lead to change.

An article about articles!
Roger Neighbour
Any author deserves to get the message across. This is how to do it. Another gem from the Neighbour jewel-box..

Avoiding the myths: a prerequisite for teaching ethics
David Seedhouse
Once you realize that ethics are inseparable from medical decision making, they become a fascinating subject.

Teaching trainees to deal with handicap and impairment
Janet Heyes
A course about disabled people run by a doctor who is herself paraplegic.

Feedback in personal tutoring
Tim Usherwood and Vicki Usherwood
Feedback is essential in any learning process and here are some novel ways of giving it. Useful in groups and in one-to-one teaching.

Videotaping the consultation - reducing trainee anxiety
Elizabeth Farmer
Doctors are anxious about lookng at themselves consulting and teachers ignore this at their peril. Described here is one excellent way of facing the problem and dealing with it.

Report of the northern region working group on rating scales
Bill Cunningham
The new Manchester Rating Scales go down well in the northern region - more or less!

What type of postgraduate education do general practitioners want?
Jane Falk-Whynes and David Whynes
An FHSA survey into GPs’ perceived learning needs produces fascinating results.

Training general practice tutors
Paul Sackin
GP tutors in one region benefit from two residential workshops. Is this a model for GP tutor training?

Using a theme board to enhance small group discussion
John Bligh
Expression in pictures instead of words gives a new dimension to small group work.

A learning planner
Roger Simmons
A way of organizing your own learning. For anyone from senior partner to the junior trainee.

Do-it-yourself trainers’ course
John Middleton
A residential course without a set agenda pleased most people most of the time.

Videorecordings of consultations: evaluation of a teaching programme
Richard Hays
How to help trainees overcome their anxiety and realize the value of looking at their recorded consultations.

The teaching practice visit
Roger Strasser
Teaching provided by an outside trainer sitting in with the trainee.

Formative assessment of general practice trainees in hospital
Peter Toon
Consultants and trainees start to talk to each other about how to make hospital posts more valuable for the trainee.

Primary health care team workshops - a new approach to planning and team building
Abdollah Tavabie, Rebecca Sparks and Janet Dickson
A residential workship gives new impetus to practice teams

Trainee referrals with in a Dutch primary health care team
Chris Van Weel
A fascinating attempt to measure the quality of trainee referrals within the primary care team.

TEACHING EXCHANGE

NEWS AND VIEWS

ASSOCIATION OF COURSE ORGANIZERS

A REGIONAL ADVISER’S DIARY

HASLAM ON TRAINING

BOOKS