ST3 GP Training
ST3 Teaching is a full day release which takes place on Wednesdays during term time at Westmorland General Hospital, Kendal.
Please see below for current teaching timetable.
Course Information
Primary Care Medical Educators: Dr Emma Jones & Dr Gavin Torr
Administration: Helen Gardner, Education Centre Assistant, Education Centre, Westmorland General Hospital. Helen.Gardner@mbht.nhs.uk
For details of the ST3 Day release training programme, contact Helen Gardner.
Most sessions are on Wednesday, 9.30am – 4pm in the Education Centre, WGH
| Date | Venue | Morning Topic | Afternoon Topic |
| Term 1 | Autumn Term | Term 1 | |
| ZOOM CODES see email / whatsapp group | |||
| 26/08/2020 | Zoom | ST3 Induction | |
| 02/09/2020 | Zoom | ST3 Induction 2 | ST3 induction 2 |
| 09/09/2020 | Zoom | ST3 Induction 3 | |
| 16/09/2020 | Zoom | Fourteen Fish and the RCA | **All ST3 trainees ** |
| 23/09/2020 | Zoom | Trainer’s Meeting 09:00 – 10.30 | GP + Communication Skills
*No ST3 Teaching* |
| 30/09/2020 | Zoom | ST3 Consultation Skills 1-Data gathering | |
| 07/10/2020 | Zoom | ST3 Consultation skills 2 – Sharing management | |
| 14/10/2020 | Zoom | ST3 Consultation Skills 3 – Telephone /Video Consultations | |
| 21/10/2020 | Zoom | ST3 Consultation Skills 4 – Triadic Consultations | Managing Uncertainty |
| 28/10/2020 | *No ST3 teaching* | Half Term | Half Term |
| 04/11/2020 | Zoom | GP+ Communication Skills | * No ST3 Teaching * |
| 11/11/2020 | Zoom | Mental Health I – Eating disorders, CBT in consultations | IMatter Project |
| 18/11/2020 | Zoom | High Challenge Patients | Practice Management |
| 25/11/2020 | Zoom | ST3 Motivational Interviewing | Change Management and Leadership |
| 02/12/2020 | Zoom | ST3 Managing Medical Complexity | Conflict Management |
| 09/12/2020 | Zoom | Mental Health II – Dr Miranda Budd | Christmas Quiz |
| 16/12/2020 | Zoom | Trainer’s Meeting 09:30 – 12 noon | *No ST3 Teaching* |
| 23/12/2020 | *No ST3 teaching* | Christmas Break | * No ST3 teaching* |
| 30/12/2020 | *No ST3 Teaching* | Christmas Break | *No ST3 teaching* |
| 06/01/2021 | *No ST3 Teaching* | Christmas Break | *No ST3 Teaching* |
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| Date | Venue | Morning Topic | Afternoon Topic |
| TERM 2 | SPRING TERM | Term 2 | |
| 13/1/2021 | Zoom | RCA Top Tips Dr Abby Astle | Complex Cases and sharing explanations |
| 20/01/2021 | Zoom | Public Health and Community Orientation | Equality and Diversity |
| 27/01/2021 | Zoom | Hot Topics | Contraception and Subfertility Dr Alison Bateman |
| 03/02/2021 | Zoom | Ophthalmology Dr Ross Kelley | Consultation Skills 1/2 for Feb starters, (RCA video review August starters) |
| 20/01/2021 | Zoom | Consultation Skills 3/4 Feb starters (RCA / Casebank) | PLT |
| 17/2/2021 | HALF TERM | HALF TERM NO TEACHING | HALF TERM NO TEACHING |
| 31/3/2021 | Easter Holiday | ||
| 7/4/2021 | Easter Holiday | ||
| Date | Venue | Morning Topic | Afternoon Topic |
| Term 3 | Summer Term | ||
ST3 – Day Release Teaching
In ST3 we join the Barrow and Lancaster groups and meet in Kendal for a full days teaching on a Wednesday.
The year begins with a 2 day induction program at The Grange Hotel in Grange-over-Sands. This gives you the chance to plan and prepare the busy year ahead of you.
We then meet weekly in Kendal at the education centre at Westmorland General Hospital. We take advantage of the full day’s teaching to provide a varied and interactive program over the ST3 year.
Teaching focus is initially on consultation skills and develops to cover a wide range of topics to prepare you for your career as a GP. We run sessions with CSA examiners in the run up to the exam as well as a CSA Practice Exam. The course timetable will give a flavour of the broad range of clinical and non-clinical topics delivered shaped by trainee feedback. We aim to cover the mandatory requirements for revalidation such as child and adult safeguarding and Basic Life Support as well as to give you some insight into practice management and leadership. We run a leadership skills day in Coniston each year which is consistently highly rated. We leave some space for flexibility to address areas of particular interest to an ST3 group.
We run 8 study days where all 3 years (ST1/ST2/ST3) attend covering Statistics, Palliative Care, MSK and Ethics, as well as sessions on Women’s and Men’s health, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Mental Health and Dermatology. These study days vary from year to year on a 2 year rolling program. The program is shaped and changed annually based on trainee feedback.