Recently the Sunday Times published an opinion piece on how GPs are the cause for the NHS woes. In response an excellent (in my humble opinion) response was sent via Dr Holden in Derbyshire. I will post the link when I can find it however here is the response: update 11.54: found the link to posting: http://peterenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/peter-holden-responding-to-times.html?spref=tw Sunday Times today …
Last week, I went to an interesting event. Called Health Camp WM (West Midlands), it was a free unconference about the use of social media for patient care. Through this event I learnt a great deal. It was interesting to meet people in various different fields: commissioners, communications people, third party providers of health care and several charitable organisation leads, …
I apologise for the lack of blog posts lately. Due to a few issues with the site, and work, I have been a little behind. I will be continuing the series on eportfolios in a few weeks. However in the meantime, I have written some articles for Network Locum on Continuous Professional Development (CPD) particularly as a locum, and they …
Merry Christmas to all The holidays are quickly approaching and I just wanted to wish all who follow this blog a Merry Christmas. I hope you have enjoyed this blog as much as I enjoy writing it. I also wanted to thank all those who voted for me in @Thejournalofmed Medical Personality of the year award (or MPOTY as called on …
Last week, I explored the CPD organiser provided by GP Online, the online portal for GPs provided by Healthcare Republic. This was discussed in my post – The eportfolio comparison: part 1. Today I will be looking at GP Online’s news-worthy competitor – Pulsetoday. Pulsetoday similarly to GP online does not offer a complete eportfolio solution, but what they call a CPD log. …
Last time I stated I was going to discuss the various different eportfolios that exist, and so here shall be my starting point. Over the next few weeks I plan on discussing the pros and cons of various providers, and a couple of alternatives. I mentioned Dropbox last time, as a storage system that can contain document files to create your …
Hello All. I would like to apologise for the lack of posts, have been on my jollies. I wanted to outline my plan for the next few weeks. After presenting at the RCGP annual conference in Liverpool, several people keep asking me about eportfolios. What to use, why they should use them, and which one I use. So, over the next few weeks, I plan …
Last week I attended the RCGP annual conference in Liverpool. I loved it. I personally feel for the cost, it is a great way of engaging with CPD sessions, with a variety of interesting topics, which you can tailor to your individual needs. I personally found the educational sessions, clinical talks, and research round-ups highly stimulating and worthwhile. My favourite sessions however …
Below is the link to my presentation given at the RCGP annual conference session E5 in Liverpool 2011. Technobabble
As part of my role, I teach medical and nursing students in general practice. This past week I have spent some time assessing the performance of various nursing and medical students and marked several abstracts which have been submitted for a student conference. It was part way through this process that I reflected on the point of clear introductions. With …