Teaching Involvement

Resident Doctors

Resident Doctors work as part of the team. Resident Doctors are fully qualified doctors with at least 2 years experience of working in hospitals and who wish to specialise in general practice. Resident Doctors have daily surgeries (often with longer appointment times), undertake home visits and help with duty doctor duties. Their placements with us vary in length, depending on their stage of training, from 4 months to over 12 months. They are supervised and assessed on a regular basis. Patients may, on occasion, be asked whether they mind having their consultation videoed for assessment purposes and/or to complete patient satisfaction questionnaires.

Medical students    

The surgery provides placements for medical students who are training to become doctors. Patients may be made aware of students sitting in with GPs, observing a surgery or may sometimes be asked if they mind being interviewed by a student as part of their training.

Patients do, of course, have the right to decline in helping with assessment & training. However, we hope that most will feel happy to assist in the education and training of our future health professionals.