GP Training
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!
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 .