In message <[log in to unmask]>, Paul Caldwell
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>The new PGEA proposals worry me.
Me too
>I am not sure that in-house based PG learning
>can work.
It is hard to see how anyone can develop a "learning plan" involving not
only all professional and non-professional groups in the practice, but
also the whole PHCT (whoever that may involve.. under PCGs ;->)
> We cannot stop the whole practice for a day.
I wonder.. what a great thought.. could we have Dobson Days?
> It seems that the only
>way we can do it, even if it is viable, is by doing during our own time.
This would apply to GPs (who are self-employed, in case you'd
forgotten); can employees be expected to contribute large amounts of
additional time, at unsocial hours (bound to be late evenings, weekends,
or both.. if all the participants have to attend) - and should they be?
If not, who pays? and if the whole practice cannot be persuaded/coerced
into participation , who suffers?
The CMO's report admits that funding needs to be studied..
>One of the major advantgaes of attending PGEA
>courses, despite acknowledging their problems as far as the RCGPs
>'self-laerning' ethos is concerned, was the networking and chating to other
>GPs (and non-GPs onmany courses) that takes place.
Agree absolutely - always get a lot from HC9x - even when they forget to
apply for PGEA!
>Thoughts.
Sorry for people further away from retirement than I am.. but cheer up!
General Practice (and the independant contractor status) seem doomed
anyway - by the time this comes in, we'll probably all be salaried
employees working in Polyclinics - and the organisation will be someone
else's headache! ;-<<
Feeling a bit stressed...
Mary
PS Anyone think there is a tendency for politicians/DOH mandarins to
read too much Lewis Carrol? Some of their pronouncements remind me of
the Bellman "and what I say three times is true".. ;-<<<
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