GP consultation

SCA Preparation Professional and Ethical Dilemmas Confidentiality, capacity, and competing duties: how to handle the consultations with no clean answer, calmly and safely. Some consultations test your clinical knowledge. Others test your judgement when there is no clean clinical answer at all: the patient asking you to keep something from a family member, the teenager […]

SCA Preparation Getting the Most From Your Educational Supervisor How to come prepared, ask better questions, and use your ES sessions to actually improve. Your Educational Supervisor is one of the most valuable resources you have in training, and one of the most underused. Many registrars treat ES sessions as an administrative box to tick,

SCA Preparation Medically Unexplained Symptoms How to validate the patient, avoid the investigation trap, and explain without dismissing — one of the most delicate consultations in general practice. Medically unexplained symptoms are among the most common presentations in general practice and among the hardest to consult about well. The symptoms are real, the distress is

SCA Preparation Consulting Well With the Frequent Attender One of general practice’s hardest consultations — how to stay curious rather than dismissive, and what the exam is really testing. Few consultations test a registrar’s professionalism quite like the frequent attender. You see the name on the list, you recognise it, and a small part of

SCA Preparation Where Are You in Your Training? How you should practise depends on your stage: building style and confidence first, structured coverage across the curriculum later. Registrars sometimes ask whether they are “practising the right way.” Usually there is no single right way — but there is a right way for where you currently

SCA Preparation How to Choose an AI Consultation Tool An honest guide to judging feedback quality, understanding what separates the options, and trying a few before you commit. There are now several AI consultation practice tools aimed at GP registrars, and they are not all the same. We will be upfront: we build one of

SCA Preparation What Cross-Case Analysis Is Feedback on one case tells you about that case. Cross-case analysis looks across everything you have done and finds the patterns that keep costing you marks. Most feedback answers one question: how did I do on that case? That is useful, but it has a limit. A single case

SCA Preparation Practising With Colleagues Peer practice remains one of the best ways to prepare — and AI practice covers what it cannot. How to get the best of both. It would be easy, given what we do, to tell you that AI practice is all you need. It is not, and we would not