GREYFRIARS MEDICAL CENTRE

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GP  TRAINING

Our current GP Registrar, Dr Lalitha Papineni is currently on maternity leave so she is not avaible for consultation just now.  She returns in August 2008 and at the same time two other registrars shall be joining us!

Patients are welcome to make an appointment to see the registrar in the same way as any of the other doctors once initial induction training is successfully completed.  Their week is a busy one with regular teaching sessions including tutorials, attendance at various clinics, a weekly half day release post-graduate meeting, alongside the best possible education - working with and listening to patients.  The Dumfries & Galloway Vocational Training Scheme is run by the associate advisor in General Practice, with the overall framework co-ordinated by Professor Stuart Murray and his team at the NHS Education for Scotland.  Over the years their innovations and ideas have served to drive GP Vocational Training forwards with many of the current national standards of teaching and assessment largely adopted from the Department's original plans.

Video assessment

Part of the training will be in communication and consulting skills and some patients will be invited  to participate in video recorded consultations.  These are real live surgeries but any patients involved will be given prior notice of them and will be asked to consent to their being video recorded.  If anyone invited would prefer not to be filmed, the camera will be switched off without any hesitation or question and, even if they had originally consented but afterwards changed their minds, any recording will be erased.

The recorded consultations are an extremely useful means of analysing how doctors communicate with their patients.  This gives us an insight as to how we can improve our work and is also an opportunity to assess how well we perform.  As a result, some of the recordings will be used for formal assessment of a Registrar's work.  All recordings will be respected as being confidential and will only ever be viewed by professionals who have committed themselves to fully respect the patient's rights to confidentiality.

Previous registrars (trainees in the old days)

Greyfriars

33 Castle Street

35 George Street

List may well be incomplete - if there's anyone out there we've forgotten to include, please accept our apologies and let us know.