Rotation Allocations
When you join the VTS you will enter a 3-year rotation (ST1, 2 and 3). This involves a selection of hospital posts and almost always a GP placement during the ST1 & 2 years. Posts are usually 4 or 6 months in length. The ST3 year is in a single GP placement.
For your first 2 years you will be allocated an Educational Supervisor (ES). This is usually a GP in the practice where you will spend the GP component of ST1 or 2.
During hospital posts you will also have a clinical supervisor. This is the consultant overseeing you.
In your final year your Educational Supervisor will be your trainer (the GP overseeing you in your practice placement).
Clinical Supervisors (CS) will oversee you day-to-day in your placements and complete and an end of post report (clinical supervisors report- CSR).
Educational Supervisors monitor your progress via your e-portfolio and see you every 6 months for an ES review – a meeting where your progress is considered. At these meetings your ES is able to request an ARCP (Annual Review of Competency Progression) panel review if they have any concerns regarding your progress.
Within the first month of you starting on the VTS you should know who your ES is. If not, please contact the Peninsula PGME team. You should make contact with your ES and preferably arrange to meet shortly after starting on the scheme. Likewise for any new post you should know who your named CS is before or shortly after starting.
Rotation allocation
Once you have accepted a place on the Plymouth scheme we will make contact with you and ask you to rank the available rotations in order of preference.
Clearly with 20+ rotations to allocate not everyone will be able to get one of their top choices. We use your ranking at interview to decide who gets what, as this is felt to be the fairest system. You each gained an overall mark as you passed through the interview process, which is an objective measure of your performance. We don’t release these positions to you, as this can be divisive. If you would like individual feedback on your performance then this can be gained on a one-to-one basis via the deanery team.
We then allocate, starting with those achieving the highest marks being allocated first. We like to retain some flexibility so that we can aim to satisfy the greatest numbers possible. We also retain the right to place certain trainees in particular rotations if there are sound educational reasons for doing so.
We will also allocate you to a GP practice for your 6 month practice placement in ST1 or 2. Please be aware that ST1 & 2 GP placements are taken from a much smaller pool of available practices (as many training practices already have trainees or are not due a trainee) hence the choice will be much more limited than for ST3 placements.
We guarantee a high quality placement and will take action if this is found not to be the case. What we can’t guarantee is that you will be placed for your maximum geographical convenience. Our VTS has practices across the city of Plymouth, South and West Devon and East Cornwall. It is highly likely that you will need to travel to your GP placement.
For your first 2 years you will be allocated an Educational Supervisor (ES). This is usually a GP in the practice where you will spend the GP component of ST1 or 2.
During hospital posts you will also have a clinical supervisor. This is the consultant overseeing you.
In your final year your Educational Supervisor will be your trainer (the GP overseeing you in your practice placement).
Clinical Supervisors (CS) will oversee you day-to-day in your placements and complete and an end of post report (clinical supervisors report- CSR).
Educational Supervisors monitor your progress via your e-portfolio and see you every 6 months for an ES review – a meeting where your progress is considered. At these meetings your ES is able to request an ARCP (Annual Review of Competency Progression) panel review if they have any concerns regarding your progress.
Within the first month of you starting on the VTS you should know who your ES is. If not, please contact the Peninsula PGME team. You should make contact with your ES and preferably arrange to meet shortly after starting on the scheme. Likewise for any new post you should know who your named CS is before or shortly after starting.
Rotation allocation
Once you have accepted a place on the Plymouth scheme we will make contact with you and ask you to rank the available rotations in order of preference.
Clearly with 20+ rotations to allocate not everyone will be able to get one of their top choices. We use your ranking at interview to decide who gets what, as this is felt to be the fairest system. You each gained an overall mark as you passed through the interview process, which is an objective measure of your performance. We don’t release these positions to you, as this can be divisive. If you would like individual feedback on your performance then this can be gained on a one-to-one basis via the deanery team.
We then allocate, starting with those achieving the highest marks being allocated first. We like to retain some flexibility so that we can aim to satisfy the greatest numbers possible. We also retain the right to place certain trainees in particular rotations if there are sound educational reasons for doing so.
We will also allocate you to a GP practice for your 6 month practice placement in ST1 or 2. Please be aware that ST1 & 2 GP placements are taken from a much smaller pool of available practices (as many training practices already have trainees or are not due a trainee) hence the choice will be much more limited than for ST3 placements.
We guarantee a high quality placement and will take action if this is found not to be the case. What we can’t guarantee is that you will be placed for your maximum geographical convenience. Our VTS has practices across the city of Plymouth, South and West Devon and East Cornwall. It is highly likely that you will need to travel to your GP placement.
