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Anatomy of a Multi-ProfessionalLearning Organisation
Paresh Dawda
Abstract
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There is a need for multi-professional training capacity in primary care providing training for a range of healthcare professionals at different stages of
their career. This need is driven by national policy and supported by Darzi’s next stage review.
South Street Surgery is a large training practice with 20000 patients. The surgery has a complement of 2 trainers, 4 associate trainers, one of whomis a nurse partner and a further nurse educator.The surgery provides training to;
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2-3 GP Registrars per annum and Innovative Post ST2
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9 F2 doctors per annum
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3
rd
and 5
th
year medical students
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undergraduate nurse students
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1 year attachments for social work students
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attachments for Emergency Care Practitioners and
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ad hoc
training placements e.g. homeopathy students, nurse practitioners, mentorship for PCT employed nurses for specific courses e.g.prescribing.
Providing training to a large cohort of learners brings about numerous benefits but also many challenges.
The challenges include making effective use of resources e.g. rooms and trainers. The approach has been to encourage innovation in deliveringeducation, involve all staff in training, use opportunities for cascade teaching, peer learning and encourage multi-professionallearning sets,supported by using an eLearning platform, that is being developed in-house using Moodle. Underpinning this approach is an electronic trainingrecord for all learners that supports their educational supervision. A flexible rota system, managed by a rota administrator, with staggered surgeriesmakes effective use of facilities, together with combined teaching activities where appropriate e.g. tutorials.
South Street Surgery
A large General Practice with a registered list size of 20,000patients. It operates over split sites and is a multidisciplinarytraining practice.Ten partners including one nurse partner, approximately 50employed staff in addition to Primary Health Care Team. Itprovides a number of essential, additional and enhancedservices under the nGMScontract framework.
The practice’s mission is to be ‘
Delivering Excellence in
Healthcare’
and
it's vision is
‘To be recognised as an excellent healthcare organisation’
.The practice has been a training practice for many years. Thelevel of training has increased significantly in the last 5 years.
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