Courses and events

Tamar Faculty Board meeting - June 2024

Our Faculty board meet four times per year in February, June, September and November and is made up of GP volunteers and Lay representatives. We also have representation from local groups such as student's groups, First 5 and AiTs.

• Date

  20 June 2024

• Start time

  19:30

• Places left

  20

Zoom

Telephone consulting and triage skills

This online course will provide you with a real understanding of how to manage the risks involved in remote telephone consultations and the benefits this work can bring when practiced effectively. This day will give you tools and techniques to best handle remote telephone consultations.

• Date

  21 June 2024

• Start time

  09:15

• Places left

  11

Old Diorama Arts Centre

EDI in Action

At ‘EDI in action’ we will share our new EDI action plan and KPIs, deriving from the Reflect, Refocus and Reinvigorate 2023 summary and key findings. This town-hall style workshop will allow you to tell us exactly what content or activities you would like to see or need from us to deliver those KPIs, and to proactively support and engage communities, shaping the EDI landscape from 2024 onward.

• Date

  21 June 2024

• Start time

  10:00

• Places left

  42

Enhancing GPs Digital Capabilities on Social Media

Google and YouTube are on a mission to combat misinformation, collaborating with local health authorities. Wondering how to leverage this tool for providing reliable and authoritative health information to your patients? Interested in sharing your healthcare knowledge but constrained by the busyness of consultations? Join us for an insightful evening to uncover the essentials of becoming a successful health content creator on YouTube. Understand its crucial role in modern medical professionalism and gain tips to create a platform guiding patients and others to authoritative health information safely.

• Date

  24 June 2024

• Start time

  19:30

• Places left

  106

Effective out of hours training | part 1: Emergency Work, Safeguarding, Complaints & Safety

This four-part online course is aimed at GP Trainees and GPs new to out of hours, working towards their urgent and unscheduled care competencies and GPs wanting to start or return to out of hours work.

• Date

  25 June 2024

• Start time

  18:00

• Places left

  58

St Leonards Practice, Exeter

Continuity of Care demonstration workshop - St Leonards Practice, Exeter

The Tamar Faculty has appointed three GP Practices across the region to deliver workshops and demonstrations on Continuity of Care. These sessions are in person and in small groups.

• Date

  27 June 2024

• Start time

  10:30

• Places left

  3

Online

Active Bystander Training

Witnessing verbal and physical abuse, discrimination, racism and micro-aggression effects everyone. This event has been developed to support ALL members of the Primary Care Team and we welcome anyone who works in a primary care setting to this event.

• Date

  27 June 2024

• Start time

  13:00

• Places left

  27

Zoom

Introduction to the SCA (free preparation webinar)

Join us for the first of a two-part series of FREE webinars on the SCA exam. This informative webinar introduces the SCA exam and is led by esteemed professionals Dr Roger Neighbour, Dr Robin Simpson and Dr Jim Bartlett. With extensive experience as examiners and facilitators of successful SCA prep courses for the RCGP, they bring a wealth of knowledge to guide you through this crucial examination.

• Date

  27 June 2024

• Start time

  19:00

• Places left

  1617

Zoom

The RCGP 1-day SCA preparation course

This open to all one-day training course aims to improve your consultation skills and as a result pass your SCA. The course offers interactive sessions with experienced trainers and examiners.

• Date

  04 July 2024

• Start time

  09:00

• Places left

  26