In ST2, teaching takes place on alternate Tuesday afternoons. These sessions would usually take place in the Education Centre, but will be held using Zoom until further notice.
Trainees in a GP or GP+ placement should attend the Communication Skills course. This is run by GPs at Oaks Family Practice, and would normally take place at Crompton Health Centre; due to the pandemic, these will run using Zoom or MS Teams until further notice.
Links to sessions will be emailed out in advance, and will appear here the day before teaching is scheduled.
to avoid unwelcome visitors, participants will be verified in the waiting room so please ensure your display name matches with one of the ST2 list!
If the speaker has provided session handouts, they will be linked to from the session itself, or click here.
ST2-B February – August 2021
In this semester we focus on the Area of Capability entitled “Caring for the whole person and the wider community”:
The goal is moving beyond disease-centred care and into holistic, person-centred care.
In your ST2 post, we encourage you to try and reflect both in and out of work on the impact of health on the patient as a whole person, and as a member of a community (whether a family, a local area, a town-based population, and as a member of the human species).
If you haven’t done so already, take advantage of your hospital placement to consider how in-hospital treatment and management might be different in a GP-setting. And if you are in a GP post, be sure to look at the differences between your now advanced hospital experience and how it compares.
To support your learning, the teaching programme topics in this semester look to focus on areas of medicine that you may not have encountered within hospital, as well as on GP-focussed approaches to certain problems and issues.
We encourage you to consider teaching sessions in advance, and make use of guest speakers by asking questions and engaging in sessions.
The ST2-B Course Guide can be downloaded as a PDF here
Course Schedule
| Date | Time | Venue/Medium | Session | Tutor |
| 9th February | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 16th February | 1430-1630 | Zoom | Care of the whole person | Dr Seb Pillon |
| 23rd February | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 2nd March | 1430-1630 | Zoom | Palliative Medicine | Dr Rebecca Lennon |
| 9th March | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 16th March | 1430-1630 | Zoom | 1 | 1 |
| 23rd March | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 30th March | 1430-1630 | Zoom | GP Case Discussions | Dr Emma Saunders |
| 6th April | EASTER BREAK | |||
| 13th April | 1430-1630 | Zoom | Gender Medicine | Indigo Gender Service |
| 20th April | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 27th April | 1430-1630 | Education Centre/ Zoom | 1 | 1 |
| 4th May | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 11th May | 1430-1630 | Education Centre/ Zoom | 1 | 1 |
| 18th May | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 25th May | 1430-1630 | Education Centre/ Zoom | Postnatal Care | Dr Rebecca Cruickshank |
| 1st June | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 8th June | 1430-1630 | Education Centre/ Zoom | 1 | 1 |
| 15th June | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 22nd June | 1430-1630 | Education Centre/ Zoom | Asylum Seeker Medicine | Dr Sarah Kiely |
| 29th June | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 6th July | 1430-1630 | Zoom | Rural and Shipboard Medicine | Dr Richard Moss & Dr Kathryn Ramsdale |
| 13th July | 1400-1600 | Crompton HC / MS Teams | Communication Skills of the Consultation | Dr Julian Tomkinson |
| 20th July | 1430-1630 | Education Centre/Zoom | End of Semester debrief | Dr Seb Pillon |