1. Welcome to General Practice Training
ICGP Education
2018 Induction Session.
Welcome to General Practice Training
Nicholas P Fenlon, Director – Medical Education ICGP.

2. The good news and the rest …
You are starting out in an amazing profession, but it isn’t over after 4 years!!!!!!
The profession of general practice necessitates “Life long learning” in order to:
Provide the best patient care
Be the best
2018 – Induction Session.

3. As you start out ….. Be generous: With your past experiences
With your questioning
With your time
With yourself, for colleagues and the profession

4. As you start out ….. Be selfish: By demanding the highest standards,
Pushing your peers, trainers and college
Remember:
You will sit exams alone,
You will sit in consultation room alone
This is YOUR training!

5. You have amazing Resources, Trainers, PDs , tutors, librarians etc

6. Your learning style

7. Involve themselves fully in new experiences Reflector
Activist
Involve themselves fully in new experiences
Thrive on a challenge & new experiences; bored with longer term consolidation
Reflector
Like to ponder experiences and observe them from different perspectives
Prefer to take a back seat in discussions
Theorist
Think problems through in a logical step-by-step way
Tend to be perfectionist; prefer to maximize certainty
Pragmatist
Positively search out new ideas, want to try them out in practice
Practical & down-to-earth people who like making practical decisions and solving problems

8. Each style ‘connects’ with a stage in the continuous learning cycle
Activist
Reflector
Theorist
Pragmatist

9. ICGP Recognise Learning styles & related pressures
ICGP Responding to ALL members continuous educational needs and notes that:
People learn in different ways
Busy work practices
Resources
Family
Our philosophy is based on the development of:
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ATITUDES (Bloom’s Taxonomy)

10. ICGP Education CME Network Conferences eLearning Modules
eLearning Forum
MCQs
short Courses
Year long Courses
Programmes/ Projects
GPIT webinars

11. Core Curriculum should be your BIBLE
WARNING
DO NOT GET CAUGHT IN THE TRAP OF CHASING DIPLOMAS AND QUALIFICATIONS AIMLESSLY
Core Curriculum should be your BIBLE