GP Specialty Training
Bedford GP Speciality Training (GPST)
The Bedford GP Speciality Training (GPST) is a structured programme which enables doctors to complete the required accreditation needed to become a General Practitioner. The three-year placement includes 12 months in hospital posts and a further 6 months in ITP posts, and 18 months in General Practice.
We welcome trainees from all over the world and provide a supportive, engaging and collaborative scheme in which all our trainees are encouraged to support each other, with input from three scheme TPDs, three area TPDs, two administrators and central deanery support. Our teaching sessions are 15 full days a year, on a Tuesday. Half of these are virtual, focussing on more clinical topics, and the other half are face to face, with a variety of different activities, to help trainees develop communication skills, learning styles, leadership, wellbeing, knowledge and team work, and supporting each other as a VTS group.
The programme involves a variety of hospital posts including A&E or Medicine, Paediatrics or O&G and Psychiatry. Most of the jobs are located at Bedford Hospital site. We have a wide variety of GP practices, some in Bedford and others in outlying towns and villages, with dedicated enthusiastic educators. More information can be found on the deanery website.
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The Trainer’s Workshop is held monthly via Teams and all Trainers and Associate Trainers are invited to attend.
Luton GP Speciality Training (GPST)
The Luton GP Speciality Training (GPST) is a structured programme which enables doctors to complete the required accreditation needed to become a General Practitioner. The three-year placement includes 18 months in hospital posts and a further 18 months in General Practice.
With trainees from all over Europe and Asia it is a multi-ethnic programme and our general practice training is spread across widely varying communities, from Luton town centre, through to Harpenden and villages such as rural Edlesborough. The area has populations of very many different cultures, giving training and life a rich and interesting mix.
The programme involves a variety of hospital posts including A&E, Medicine, Paediatrics, O&G, Psychiatry, Surgery and also innovative posts like Community Paediatrics and Community Psychiatry. Most of the jobs are located at the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital.
We have teaching sessions on Tuesdays – the teaching topics run on a two-year basis and are selected by the Registrars. We also run Communication Skills Workshops (similar to an OSCE) for our trainees each year.
The Trainer’s Workshop is held four times a year and all Trainers and Associate Trainers are invited to attend.