Compiled by supervisors, for supervisors, at the 2019 Supervisor Professional Development Day.
- Set the rules of engagement early in the term including expectations for feedback and performance management.
- Direct observation is essential to teaching well-rounded GP skills including billing and administrative aspects.
- Address difficult issues early, don’t let a spot-fire turn into an inferno.
- Ask before tell – first assess why the registrar is doing something before telling them what to change.
- Use learning plans effectively; make the registrar complete them and look at them regularly! It’s a living plan and flexible.
- Feedback is a two-way street, get regular feedback from your registrar about how teaching is going.
- Have a coordinator to schedule teaching time e.g. practice nurse or practice manager.
- Vertical teaching – more advanced registrar to teach medical students or contribute to teaching a more junior registrar.
- We are training to be generalised – we need skills in all areas.
- Individualise feedback and use multisource feedback to facilitate this process.