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Education is an important part of the life of the practice - we run our own in house scheme which aims to meet the various and differing needs of the members of the primary health care team. The joint meetings also serve to strengthen relationships and build an effective team.

We have been a GP Training practice for 6 years and this has been an exciting development. We are able to accommodate one GP Registrar for training. Although not essential to the provision of patient care, we hope that our registrars feel very much a part of the life and activity of the practice. Our GP trainer is Dr Liz Nyholm, though Dr Helen Walt has undertaken the trainers' course and together with all the parners, provides educational support. All the Doctors in the practice participate in postgraduate education and in the training of the Registrar. If you have any queries please contact us either by email or directly at the surgery. More information about the programme is available from the West Midlands Deanery and from Eastern Birmingham and Solihull Vocational Training Scheme.

GP Registrar training at Yardley Green is busy, comprehensive and fun!

Trainer Profile : Dr Liz Nyholm

Liz qualified in 1978 at University College London and has been involved with undergraduate and postgraduate education for many years. Liz is keen that Registrars are exposed to all the exciting aspects of general practice. In the past she has been involved in the setting up of a GP out of hours co-operative, building a new medical centre and GP politics. She has a particular interest in sexual health, acting as an instructing doctor for the Diploma of Faculty of Family Planning (DFFP), contraceptive implant and coils.. The practice runs a Level 2 sexual health service and there is excellent experience to be gained in this important area of general practice .

Liz is involved with teaching sexual health across Bimrinhgam and runs an annual DFFP/STIF modular course with Dr Steve Taylor at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. She is currently Sexual Health Clinical Lead for BEN PCT. Liz is an experienced endoscopist, undertaking a weekly session in the gastroenterology department at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital.

Trainer Profile : Dr Kerry Boyle

Since graduating from Leeds University in 2000 Kerry has been interested in medical education, but this has only been formalised once she completed her GP training in 2005 where she has taught undergraduates from Birmingham University and UCH London as well as supporting the training of GP registrars. Kerry has recently become a GP trainer and will be taking on her own trainees from August 2010 and will be continuing her supporting role until then.

Like Liz, Kerry has a special interest in Sexual Health and Contraception provision and is also an instructing doctor for the DFSRH, Coil and implant practical training.

Palliative care is also an interest of Kerry's and with two other GPs in the practice she helps to manage the terminally and chronically ill patients using the Gold Standards Framework for palliative care. Kerry along with another partner also looks after all the patients in a local nursing home, doing weekly ward rounds and annual reviews. The holistic approach the practice offers all our palliative and chronically ill patients is an excellent learning environment for GP registrars.