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Training Practice
We are accredited as a Training Practice for GP Speciality Trainees. When you are offered an appointment, this may be with one of our GP trainees. Our GP trainees occasionally video their appointments for learning purposes. They will always ask your permission in the appointment, but if you object to your appointment being recorded, you can also let us know when booking an appointment. This is explained in more detail below.
GP training at the practice
Wye Valley Surgery is a training practice for young Doctors who want to make their careers in general practice. This means that the practice has to achieve high standards and be regularly inspected to ensure that those standards are maintained. By achieving “training” status, the practice is able to train young, fully qualified Doctors (GP Registrars), who come to us with an experienced hospital background, prior to becoming GP principals in their own right.
Our GP trainees are fully supervised by our GP trainers, Dr Pasupathi and Dr Baig, who are the current GP Trainers.
Video appointments and your permission
As part of their ongoing training and qualification, the GP Registrars are required to present some video appointments to the Royal College of General Practitioners. Our GP trainees also occasionally video their appointments for learning purposes. Patients may be asked to allow their appointment to be videoed. This will only be done with the full, unequivocal consent of the patient concerned.
You will be informed at the time of checking in that the consultation is requested to be videoed and you will be asked to sign a consent form to confirm your agreement at the appointment. You have the right to decline being videoed and this will not affect your appointment.
We will always ask your permission, but if you object to your consultation being recorded, you can also let us know when booking an appointment.
Medical student training
This Practice is also involved in the training of 5th-year medical students from Oxford University.
Training practice policy
We are accredited as a Training Practice for GP Speciality Trainees. We have included further information on GP training and what previous experience a GP trainee is likely to have had. Under “about the practice” we cover who our GP trainers and trainees are.
How long to train a GP?
It generally takes around 10 years to train a GP, including on average 5 years at medical school, 2 years as a foundation doctor and 3 years in GP specialist training. A significant number of GPs will have done extra years in other hospital specialities before switching careers to be a GP.
Find more information about training as a doctor
GP specialist training in practices
As the British Medical Journal suggests for anyone undertaking GP specialist training:
“The training duration is a minimum of 3 years of full-time training, but this may be longer if you choose an academic programme, or in some other circumstances. The training normally includes 18 months in approved hospital posts, and 18 months in an approved GP practice in your deanery. The hospital specialties available to complete during your GP training include General Medicine, Elderly care, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and others.”
So, it is likely that if you have been admitted to hospital or been seen in Accident and Emergency, you will have been seen by a GP trainee, as they make up many of the trainee doctors in hospital. All GP trainees bring recent experience of hospital medicine.
Read a step-by-step guide to becoming a GP in the UK
What is involved in GP training?
- Read training information from the Royal College of Practitioners
- Learn more about the Buckinghamshire GP training scheme
Other clinical training
On occasions we may be involved in teaching other clinicians which may include nurses, physician associates and pharmacists.
Medical student teaching
On occasions we may be involved in teaching undergraduate medical students and they may sit in during appointments. We will always ask your permission before allowing them to see you, so if you would rather see your doctor alone, please feel free to decline.