Courses and events

Rated 9/10 for delegate satisfaction – discover the College’s wide-ranging catalogue of courses and events, designed to celebrate your achievements, support your wellbeing, develop your clinical and professional confidence, while connecting you to our diverse community.

We offer a diverse programme spanning everything from clinical updates and deep dives to management and leadership, wellbeing and innovation. Most events are free for RCGP members, and where there is a cost, you’ll benefit from preferential rates.

Looking for something specific? Easily search by event type, topic, location or date to find the perfect fit for your learning needs.

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Zoom

The RCGP 1-day SCA Preparation Course | 29 January 2026

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

    29 January 2026

  • Start time

    09:00

  • Places left

    34

GP Registrar Insights - Common training pitfalls and troubleshooting tips’

Welcome to our peer-led educational programme for all GP registrars! We aim to create an informal space for registrars to come together once a month and share their questions, thoughts and worries about various topics related to GP training. Each session will have a theme, varying from exams to post-CCT preparations, with plenty of scope for future topics to be decided by you. Sessions will be facilitated mainly by other registrars with experience/an interest in the topic.

  • Date

    29 January 2026

  • Start time

    19:00

  • Places left

    49

Zoom

SCA cases and panel discussion (free preparation webinar) - Part two

Join us for the concluding instalment of our two-part series of FREE webinars on the SCA exam, led by esteemed professionals Dr Roger Neighbour, Brigadier (Retd) Robin Simpson, Dr Pauline Foreman and Dr Meiling Denney. 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

    29 January 2026

  • Start time

    19:00

  • Places left

    1925

Online Zoom Webinar

Life after VTS: Webinar Series: Mock Interviews & Confidence Building

Life after VTS, trainees can pick the brains of more established GPs in how to apply for roles, schemes and get real world advice on how to navigate stepping into the professional world. Topics that will be discussed are: what and where to look for when applying for roles, CV support, mock interviews, and a social.

  • Date

    11 February 2026

  • Start time

    19:00

  • Places left

    75

Microsoft Teams

Care Navigation at reception - essential skills

RCGP Scotland welcome Dr Val McGarrell from Prima Linea Training to this half day essential skills care navigation workshop for non-clinical staff on the frontline of the GP Practice. Open to practice staff, reception supervisors and practice managers from across Scotland, this training aims to support, encourage and upskill practice teams to deliver and grow non-clinical care navigation (the new term for signposting).

  • Date

    12 February 2026

  • Start time

    13:30

  • Places left

    26

Zoom

The RCGP 1-day SCA Preparation Course | 25 February 2025

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

    25 February 2026

  • Start time

    09:00

  • Places left

    36

Online via Zoom

Clinical decision-making for skin infections: from Group A Strep to insect bites

Skin infections are the third most common reason for antibiotic prescribing in primary care, accounting for around 7% of antibiotic prescriptions. This webinar will explore cellulitis in different scenarios such as Group A Strep presentation and insect bites by summarising NICE prescribing guidance and best practice recommendations for management. It will also offer practical tips on how to improve antibiotic prescribing and action planning for skin infections in your practice, as well as how to provide safety netting advice.

  • Date

    17 March 2026

  • Start time

    18:30

  • Places left

    964

Online

Active Bystander Training

Witnessing verbal and physical abuse, discrimination, racism and micro-aggression effects everyone! Have you ever been in a situation where you want to challenge someone’s behaviour - but you didn’t know how to do it or what to say? This session has been developed to support ALL members of the Primary Care Team. It includes self-coaching techniques to help you keep a cool head when you’re faced with a challenging situation, and assertive language devices which you can use to make sure your voice is heard if you want to raise a concern. The session focuses on challenging inappropriate workplace behaviours from patients and colleagues and will give you the tools needed to be able to do this confidently.

  • Date

    26 March 2026

  • Start time

    13:00

  • Places left

    67

Online

Appraisal Made Easy

Join us for an afternoon of getting the most from your appraisal. We look at tips on how you should prepare, how appraisal has changed since covid, toolkits and much more. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions of the speaker who has been an appraisal lead for NHS England and NHS Improvement North West since 2008. This event is aimed at new GPs, however, all GPs welcome to attend this event.

  • Date

    24 April 2026

  • Start time

    13:00

  • Places left

    118