Welcome to the ST3 B Course page for 2025.

Here is the provisional timetable for Wednesday sessions, please note, at this stage, there may be changes to rooms or sessions. Sessions will run in all allocated slots, however.

Timetable last updated:

Semester Lead: Kat Rothwell

Course structure

In the first few weeks of the day release programme, we run two concurrent courses depending on what stage of ST3 you are in. For those new to ST3, you should attend the SCA course sessions. Those who are already ST3 should attend the Trainee to GP (T2GP) Course. Both courses occur twice a year so all ST3s will get to experience the sessions.

Sessions with no description are not scheduled teaching sessions and you should arrange your own educational activity for these times, in line with your individual job plan.

Please be aware that sessions may need to change at short notice due to presenter and room availability – we will inform trainees by email if this is the case.

Please attend sessions ready to start at the advertised time in line with our attendance policy. Repeated late attendance will be be flagged as a cause for concern.

Each session is mapped to the Areas of Capability (AoC) in the RCGP Curriculum (see the AoC column for details) to help guide your reflective portfolio entries. We strongly recommend making a portfolio log for each session you attend.

Breakfast Club

We start each morning session at the 9am with a general discussion topic accompanied by hot drinks and breakfast snacks. This provides an opportunity for you to chat with each other, to ask questions of the PCMEs Kat and Seb and to wake up ready for the day’s sessions!

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Consultation Skills Courses

	SCA Preparation Course (SCA Prep)
1	How to Approach the SCA (Ian Hamer, RCGP)
2	Mock SCA
3	Case Roleplay with First5 GPs
4	SCA Examiner Skills: Critique and Benchmarking Exercise
5	Consultations with Actors

	Trainee to GP Course (T2GP)
1	Positive Practice
2	Accepting Imperfection
3	Doctor-Efficient Care (including Clinical Triage)
5	Consultations with Actors

Areas of Capability

Teaching sessions are mapped to the following Areas of Capability to help you complete your portfolio of evidence for ARCP/CCT.

1. Fitness to practise – the doctor’s awareness of when his/her own performance, conduct or health, or that of others, might put patients at risk, and taking action to protect patients
2. Maintaining an ethical approach – practising ethically, with integrity and a respect for diversity 
3. Communication and consultation skills – communication with patients, and the use of recognised consultation techniques
4. Data gathering and interpretation – for clinical judgement, choice of physical examination and investigations and their interpretation
5. Clinical examination and procedural skills – competent physical examination of the patient with accurate interpretation of physical signs and the safe practice of procedural skills
6. Making a diagnosis / decisions – a conscious, structured approach to decision making
7. Clinical management – recognition and management of common medical conditions in primary care
8. Managing medical complexity – aspects of care beyond managing straightforward problems, including management of co-morbidity, uncertainty, risk and focusing on health rather than just illness
9. Working with colleagues and in teams – working effectively with other professionals to ensure good patient care, including sharing information with colleagues
10. Maintaining performance, learning and teaching – maintaining performance and effective CPD for oneself and others
11. Organisation, management and leadership – an understanding of the use of computer systems to augment the GP consultation and primary care at individual and systems levels, the management of change, and the development of organisational and clinical leadership skills 
12. Practising holistically, promoting health and safeguarding – operating in physical, psychological, socioeconomic and cultural dimensions, taking into account feelings as well as thoughts
13. Community orientation – management of the health and social care of the practice population and local community