Training
Training for General Practice extends over 3 years and incorporates 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in General Practice. The Preston Scheme provides 22 training tracks.
Preston Scheme provides training hospital posts at both Preston and Chorley hospitals and the scheme offers opportunities in the following specialties:
Accident and Emergency
Medicine
Paediatrics
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Psychiatry
Six months of the General Practice experience is undertaken in posts that allow release to a hospital specialty to gain additional experience and these are termed GP + posts. We are fortunate in having a wide option choice:
Rheumatology
Ophthalmology
Dermatology
Palliative Care
Sexual Health (Genito Urinary Medicine)
Men’s Health (Urology)
Orthopaedics
Paediatrics
ENT / Ophthalmogy
The final 12 months of General Practice will be undertaken in one of our wide range of enthusiastic training practices. These range from inner city, suburban to rural practices and more information is available on the website.
Hospital Posts
Accident and Emergency
This department is renowned for its training enthusiasm. Doctors are provided on their arrival with a departmental handbook which focuses on the most common questions. The department has developed a training programme which can be delivered either using the internet or in group teaching depending on the preference of the training doctors. As well as clinical experience the department aims to develop training doctors’ decision making skills, supported by a team of experienced doctors.
Medicine
There are a wide range of opportunities to broaden medical experience focusing on the knowledge and skills of the RCGP curriculum. Posts are offered in Elderly Care, Respiratory, Renal and Endocrinology though all posts offer a "general medicine" training and aim to meet the requirements of the RCGP curriculum for each medical sub-specialty. All doctors are given the opportunity of working in the Medical Assessment Unit, the interface with Primary Care.
Paediatrics
The paediatric consultants aim to give training doctors wide experience in paediatrics. There are opportunities to attend a variety of general and more specialised paediatric clinics as well as participating in the on call team assessing patients coming from primary care.
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The training and teaching offered by this department is enthusiastically received by GP trainees. The department aims to ensure that doctors passing through the department have the opportunity to obtain the knowledge and skills in the RCGP curriculum.
Psychiatry
When attached to this department doctors have the opportunity to experience both acute and chronic adult psychiatry including clinic and assessment of acute presentations. The educational experience is guided by the RCGP curriculum and provide a sound basis for managing patients in primary care.