Welcome to the ST3 A Course page for 2023.

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

Timetable last updated:

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Date	Morning 0900-1230 New to ST3	Morning 0900-1230 Existing ST3	Location	Afternoon 1330-1530	Location
20 Sept	SCA Prep 1: Mock SCA	All Trainees	Zoom	SCA Prep 4 Critique and Benchmarking	MS Teams
27 Sept	Great Explanations / HEE “How to RCA”	All Trainees	Zoom (SR1 available)	SCA Prep session (unsupervised)	DR1
4 Oct	SCA Prep 2 – How to SCA with Examiner (Ian Hamer)	All Trainees	SR1	Bolton ICS Teaching	MS Teams
11 Oct	SCA Prep 3 – Case Roleplays with First5 GPs	All Trainees	Zoom	Consultation Models (SP)	Zoom
18 Oct	SCA Prep 5 – Case Roleplays with Actors	All Trainees	SR1	ACSC3: Patient Centre, Doctor Efficient Care (ST3s who commenced pre August 2023 only)	DR2
25 Oct	SCA Prep – attend and work in groups	All Trainees	SR1	SCA Prep – attend and work in groups	SR2

1 Nov	“Beyond Labels” Sally Heady Coaching	SR1	Bolton ICS Teaching	MS Teams
8 Nov	Focussed Clinical Examinations	SR1	SCA Prep – attend and work in groups	DR1
15 Nov	Wellbeing Day	Bolton Octogon	Wellbeing Day	Bolton Octogon
22 Nov	PRiME 1 (University of Manchester)	SR1	Prescribing Effectively (Jole Hannan, Bolton ICB)	MS Teams
29 Nov	PRiME 2 (University of Manchester)	SR1	QIP/Leadership Time	–
6 Dec	0930-1200: Occupational Medicine for GPs (Talal Khan) 1300-1430: BLS/AED Training	SR1/Resus	Bolton ICS Teaching	MS Teams
13 Dec	Belbin Team Roles	SR1/DR1/DR2	End of Year Session	Lounge
20 Dec	no session timetabled	–	no session timetabled	–
27 Dec	no session timetabled	–	no session timetabled	–
3 Jan	no session timetabled	–	no session timetabled	–
10 Jan	Practical Ethics (SP)	SR1	Non-patient facing work in GP (SP)	SR1
17 Jan	Adult Safeguarding L3 (Sarah Kiely, Bolton ICB)	SR1	SCA Prep	SR1
24 Jan	Child Safeguarding L3 (Gabi Lipshen & Charlotte Mackinnon, Bolton NHS FT)	SR1	Career Options: Partners & Salaried roles	SR1

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 RCA course sessions. Those who are already ST3 should attend the Advanced Consultation SKills 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

New to ST3 this year is “Breakfast Club”! Both national surveys and our own trainees tell us that having the opportunity to meet and bond with other ST3s is a vital part of their training and wellbeing. We will now start each morning session at the slightly earlier time of 9am with a general discussion topic accompanied by hot drinks and breakfast snacks.

We’ll explain further at our first session for those that are new to ST3.

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Consultation Skills Courses

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

	Advanced Consultation Skills Course (ACSC)
1	What Went Well? Positive Case Reviews
2	Accepting Imperfection
3	Patient-Centred & Doctor-Efficient Care