This page contains information related to the ST2-A teaching schedule, beginning in September 2025.

Teaching takes place on Tuesday afternoons from 1400-1700. Sessions begin at 1400 or 1430 and are held at the Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub

Your training practice should ensure you are released from clinical duties by 1300 as the 4 hour structured educational session begins at 1300 and lasts until 1700. We include time within that to have pre-teaching case-based discussion and post-teaching portfolio reflection.

Please note, all teaching in ST2 is at the Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub unless otherwise specified

Timetable

Here is the provisonal timetable for ST2-A from September 2025 – sessions will run in all timetabled slots, however, only content currently in BOLD is confirmed. Other sessions are subject to change within the schedule depending on speaker availability.

Date	Time	Location	Session	Session Lead
26 Aug	1400-1700	Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub	AKT	Dr Seb Pillon PCME Bolton
9 Sept	1400-1630	Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub	Genomics	Kate Dack NHS North West Genomic Medicine Service Alliance
23 Sept	1400-1630	Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub	Palliative 1
7th Oct	1400-1630	Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub	Case Studies in GP	Dr Seb Pillon PCME Bolton
21 Oct	1400-1630	Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub	Chronic & Common Illness	Dr Seb Pillon PCME Bolton
4th Nov	1400-1630	Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub	Mental Health
18 Nov	1400-1630	Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub	Adult Learning, Portfolio Reflections and MRCGP	Dr Seb Pillon PCME Bolton
2nd Dec	1400-1630	Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub	Palliative 2
16 Dec	1400-1630	Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub	Statistics for AKT & EBM for Life
20th Jan	1400-1630	Horwich Health & Wellbeing Hub	Psychosomatic Conditions & Chronic Pain	Dr Seb Pillon PCME Bolton
Date	Time	Location	Session	Session Lead

Educational Time in Non-Teaching Weeks

There are 10 sessions of teaching per ST2 semester. In one semester only, half of the year group will also attend the ST2 Consultation Skills Course, run by Julian Tomkinson. You will be contacted about this directly.

When teaching is not scheduled, you should use the time to complete online or other learning, such as:

• TALC and Healthy English
  • These courses have been developed by GP Educators in Greater Manchester and teach consultation skills and improving the use of English when consulting
• RCGP e-learning
• RCGP Toolkits
• Gateway-C: Learning around cancer diagnosis and management within primary care
• Genomics Education Programme
• GeNotes: Primary Care
  • Quick, concise information to help healthcare professionals make the right genomic decisions at each stage of a clinical pathway.
• NHS e-learning for health
• Arrange to attend outpatient clinics (such as ENT, Surgical Acute Referral Clinic, Ophthalmology, Gynaecology, Physiotherapy, Antenatal Clinic, Paediatrics, Breast Clinic etc)
  • You should contact clinics directly to request to join them. It’s useful if their know your learning objective(s) for the session in advance.
• AKT Study groups
  • If given enough notice, the Postgraduate team may be able to book you a room for this in the Education Centre, and we also encourage the use of MS Teams via your nhs.net email address to meet up online – practising using video is a key part of the SCA exam!

Attendance

An ST3 resident doctor job plan will include educational time for attendance at this full-day event each week, and the North West Deanery expects attendance in line with professionalism standards that are reviewed at your ARCP. Less-than-full-time resident doctors should attend the proportion of Werdnesday sessions in line with their job plan.

Attendance is defined as arriving in time for the advertised session start time, actively participating in sessions held, and no departures before the end of advertised session times.

• Morning Sessions start promptly at 0930, with hot drinks available from 0900. Morning sessions will finish by 1230.
• Afternoon sessions will start no sooner than 1230 and will usually be finished by 1530 unless otherwise stated.
• One hour of each morning/afternoon session time is allocated to give feedback on sessions and to complete a portfolio entry reflecting on what has been learned, which forms the official record of attendance.
• A register of attendance is taken by the education team to track attendance in order to identify and support resident doctors. This will be taken at the start of sessions and late arrivals will not be recorded. However, resident doctors can still reflect in their portfolio on the session as evidence of attendance
• Resident doctors should take annual/study/professional leave (as appropriate) and in agreement with their host practice policies. Leave should broadly conform to the same 70/30 clinical/educational split that work hours are defined by.
• Resident Doctors are reminded of the relevant Lead Employer policies on attendance and absence