Vocational Training for General Practice based in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.
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Vocational Training for General Practice based in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.
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"the purpose
of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all they know
and thus stop them from carrying on learning" Rogers(1988) At school and
medical school all our education was teacher orientated, we were taught, using
various methods to a curriculum. Our responsibility was to turn up and do the
work ! Junior Hospital jobs
represent a shift towards a apprenticeship model, we do a "job",
learning as we go along from those more senior, with a bit of familiar teaching
thrown in ! (hopefully relevant and well delivered ?). BUT you are now
grown ups, and professionally qualified as Doctors. General
practitioners and practices are all different, with different skills, aptitudes
and preferences. There isn't really a curriculum, only broad areas of basic
competencies. Three years isn't
long enough to acquire all the skills and knowledge for a lifetime in practice,
some of the stuff you learnt in medical school is out of date (and a lot of what
I learnt) and more will be out of date in 3 years time. General practice
is a lot about rather soft knowledge, not so much the hard facts of textbooks,
we need the basic facts, but a good GP is particularly skilled at higher order
social skills that revolve around consultation, interpersonal skills. It is
these that enable us to help people with the often ill defined ills that mar
their lives, and enable them to get the best from our more technical Hospital
colleagues. These affective
skills are not readily learnt by being taught - you need to learn them for
yourself. . . . . with a bit of help. When we stop
learning and improving we all become stale, bored and less good doctors, bad
for our patients and worse for us! as it leads to burn out, loss of self
respect, and general fedupness with our lot. So this isn't all
about gloom and despondency, this is about a positive way of becoming a life long
learner. A "adult" or "active" learning model in the
jargon. Our educational
aims are to help you become a life long active learner, BUT this means that YOU
are largely responsible for how much you get out of the 3 years with us, the
more you put in the more you will get out. Basically it is
no skin off our noses if you want to coast through doing the bare minimum - but
it will do you no good in the end! Sure there is a minimum test, but we trust that you don't want to have the bare minimum
abilities. We are eager
however to facilitate your learning, and transition to the active model. Adult Learners:
Brookfield(1986) So what does that
mean? Our Manifesto
............................................... we will of course teach you some things too!
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