Description

Winner of the Primary Health Care Category, BMA Books Awards 2012!


 
 

This book is designed to help GPs with reflective learning, appraisals and revalidation. To make this process more interesting, the authors have provided:

*  a range of videos to watch – they are meant to be humorous, but also address serious issues
*  poems to read – believe it or not, they can be useful
*  exercises to work through and thought-provoking questions to consider

These videos, poems and exercises make the whole area of professional development more accessible, more relevant, and a lot more fun (they’ve even thrown in a few jokes ...).

GPs all need to reflect on the way we practise and deal with our patients; they all have to undergo annual appraisals; and soon all GPs have to be revalidated. All these stages of continued development will be easier with this workbook.

Includes a DVD of 13 short films starring Dr Hairy (of YouTube fame). In his own inimitable (if somewhat irreverent) style, he tackles a wide range of topical issues.

You can access a sample video starring Dr Hairy below:

Contents

Preface
About the Authors
About the Book 

Chapter 1
Video: Phoning the London Hospital
Exercise: Returning a faulty kettle
Poem: Dirge of Dead Sisters

Chapter 2
Video: Private charges
Exercise: Good clinic / bad clinic
Exercise: Leadership styles 

Chapter 3
Video: Old-fashioned Medicine
Exercise: The consultation journey
Exercise: ‘Everything worth doing is either illegal, immoral or fattening’

Chapter 4
Video: Dr Hairy’s Address to the Nation
Exercise: EBM and VBM
Exercise: Five a day
Exercise: Creative thinking

Chapter 5
Video: Frank Talking (Part 1)
Exercise: Red flag game
Exercise: Heron’s six interventions

Chapter 6
Video: Frank Talking (Part 2)
Exercise: Your values as a doctor and a person
Poem: The Last Words of My English Grandmother

Chapter 7
Video: Frank Talking (Part 3)
Poem: The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Exercise: ‘Bramble Jelly’ video

Chapter 8
Video: Appraisal (Part 1)
Exercise: Mini-appraisal
Poem: The Poet Sings of the Wide North Sea

Chapter 9
Video: Appraisal (Part 2)
Exercise: Things you were told as a child / things you say to your children / sayings you live by
Exercise: ‘Everyone I can think of who has died’ video 

Chapter 10
Video: Appraisal (Part 3)
Exercise: Breaking bad news to the tennis player

Chapter 11
Video: Appraisal (Part 4)
Exercise: Learning into teaching / Marcus Aurelius
Poem: On the Death of Dr Robert Levet
Poem: This is Just to Say

Chapter 12
Video: Child Safety
Poem: Wife Beating
Poem: Red Suspenders

Extra video
‘Dr Hairy in: Mentoring’