WHAT ARE MY MORNING
COMMITMENTS?
Your Thursday morning and afternoon throughout your year 5
will be dedicated to the Integrated Clinical Apprenticeship. This has been
negotiated with the Year 5 course leads and your Specialty supervisors for each
firm. Attendance is mandatory for both morning and afternoon sessions.
You will attend your allocated GP surgery on a time
negotiated with your GP mentor.
In the morning, you will see patients from your caseload,
assessing their clinical needs and bringing yourself up to date with their
secondary care contacts. You can then plan with your patient to attend any
secondary care appointments in the coming weeks with your patients.
You may also see “ad hoc” patients from the surgery and, if
relevant, add them to your caseload. There will be an opportunity to see other
health professionals in the primary care team and assist in their daily activities.
WHAT IS MY PATIENT
“CASELOAD”?
This is a group of about 12 patients (shared with your
pair), recruited by your GP and you, who you will follow through the year, both
in primary and secondary care. Depending on their clinical condition, you may
not be required to follow them through the entire year, but other patients can
be “picked up” through the year on an ad-hoc basis.
WHAT WILL I BE
EXPECTED TO DO WITH MY PATIENTS?
You will be expected to see patients, assess them
clinically, perform reviews (eg mental health and ante-natal reviews), manage
your own appointments and home visits and perform investigations on your
patients as required.
WHAT IF I FEEL I AM
MISSING OUT ON FIRM OBLIGATIONS?
It will be up to you to decide whether some of the secondary
care appointments will take precedence over commitments elsewhere in your firm.
This will require discussion with your site leads as these arise. These
negotiations are an important part of becoming a flexible clinician, requiring
prioritisation and organisational skills.
WHAT ABOUT THE
AFTERNOON?
Tutorials based in Imperial Campuses will start at 2pm and
run until 5pm every Thursday. These will give you an opportunity to debrief
with peers and course leads, present interesting cases (both from Integrated
Clinical Apprenticeship and your firms) and receive tutorials based around course
themes, relevant to the Year 5 core specialties.
ARE THERE ANY ASSESSMENTS
OR WRITE UPS?
There are no formal assessments in the Integrated Clinical
Apprenticeship. However, there are some exercises during the year that are
designed to help you reflect on your Year 5 learning with regard to your
Integrated Clinical Apprenticeship work.
WHAT IF I CAN’T ATTEND
A SESSION?
You first priority in this instance is to your patients and
your surgery. Please let them know as soon as possible that you cannot attend
so that they can inform your booked patients.
Please also email the course administrator Noosheen Bashir (
n.bashir@imperial.ac.uk). You should
always notify us prior to being absent from a session so that our records are
accurate.
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