Workshop Choices - Workshop 3
Friday 10 November 2017

A Seminar: Combining a research career with a clinical career
Facilitated by Dr Willie Hamilton

My talk will cover cancer diagnostic research from the aspect of training and will address the logistics of doing a portfolio career in primary care research.
B Assessments
Facilitated by Professor Adrian Freeman

Group discussion about the understanding of assessments for trainees and how you can help them.
C Using the Humanities in Medical Education
Facilitated by Dr David Hopes

As well as medical knowledge and skills being a good GP requires a dose of wisdom. Where do we and our trainees find this? I would argue the humanities are one excellent source.

In this workshop we’ll share some resources and look at how we may use them in our teaching and for our own enjoyment. If you have any material from the arts and humanities that you find has helped you with your practice, be it art, literature, music, poetry or any other please bring it along to share. This is not essential.
D Teaching Consultation Skills
Facilitated by Dr Damian Kenny

In this workshop we will consider techniques for teaching consultation skills to Registrars. We will look at a model of how people learn well, and use this to consider ways in which Educational Supervisors can enhance the learners’ learning. We will consider how we can help Registrars to develop good structure to their consultation, and practise teaching some consulting microskills.
E Contraception in Ancient Rome
Facilitated by John Godwin

A description and discussion of the Roman methods of birth-control, showing the serious side of ancient (lack of) obstetrics and gynaecology and also the less serious methods which a mixture of superstition and emerging medical knowledge generated. Would any of these methods have actually worked?
F The role of the trainer in in building trainee resilience
Facilitated by Dr Vik Mohan

The GP School have just launched their programme to support trainees to thrive and build their resilience. Trainers have a crucial role to play in the integration of the resilience framework into the daily work of our GP Trainees. This workshop will provide an opportunity for trainers to explore the framework and share and develop ideas and tools that can be used to enable their trainees to sustain and enjoy a career in general practice.
G Why table tennis is the answer to all life’s problems
Facilitated by Dr Harry Cutler

An opportunity to think about how we encourage patients to stay active and the potential benefits this holds.

Including significant time to practice and develop table tennis skills!

H Too much medicine: Should general practice be leading a revolution to challenge the medicalisation of health?
Facilitated by Martin Marshall

The medical model is powerful but also dangerous and wasteful. About 20% of a person’s health can be explained by the medical model; 80% is influenced by wider social and environmental factors.

Given these facts, what role does general practice have in challenging the current norms of health care delivery? We are seeing a growing interest in the related concepts of over-diagnosis, social determinants of health, healthy communities and shared decision making, all of which are challenging the traditional dominance of medicine.

In this workshop participants will explore emerging solutions and examine the extent to which general practice needs to be leading a revolution.