Consultant Family Medicine
Winyates Health Centre
Total des années d'expérience :13 years, 8 Mois
Outline Worked within a family run practice with 3 GP partners, 1 GP and 1ANP to look after families and children in the community to treat or prevent illness, disease and injury. The practice offered diversity in its population with different age groups, cultures and backgrounds allowing good exposure to different healthcare needs.
Key Responsibilities
• Diagnosed, treated and helped prevent diseases and injuries that commonly occur in the general population.
• Gave appropriate health education and advice to patients and carers to enable self management.
• Dealt with a lot of mental health cases and ran a weekly learning disability health check clinic.
• Administered basic medical treatments such as injections, immunisations, wound dressings and stitches.
• Ensuring a safe working environment for patients and staff.
Key Achievements Successfully completed an audit cycle for prescribing medication for type two diabetes patients in the practice and implementing sick day rule when applicable.
During my General Practice training, my placements were in Public Health, Care of Elderly and Trauma and Orthopaedics.
During public health placement I attended several CCG meetings, got involved in business planning and in Audit. This allowed me to understand commissioning of healthcare services, how to improve them and the importance of some of them such as immunisation and screening.
The role included involvement in both health protection and prevention services. This gave me a good exposure and understanding to management of communicable diseases and outbreak responses.
Other skills I have picked up in Care of Elderly placement included communication skills when carrying out advanced care plan discussions with patients and their families, dealing with palliative care and carrying out ward rounds in care homes, working as a team as there were lots of MDT meetings and discharge planning and having a holistic approach when dealing with chronic illness and several co-morbidities.
During Trauma and Orthopaedics placement I improved my skills in joint assessment and examination. I am more confident with interpretation of imaging and X-rays as well as management of common conditions. I attained a certificate in joint injections which I am now confident in carrying out. I also improved my suturing skills in theatre.
During this post, I worked in a respiratory medicine ward, caring for both ward and HDU patients. This gave me a good exposure to both acute and chronic cases. I developed skills of how to manage patients in these two different settings effectively. I also built my leadership and teaching skills, as I used to run the ward round with junior doctors and medical students. I have learned several clinical skills such as chest drain insertion, chest aspiration and ABGs. I can interpret lung function tests and act on them accordingly.
During my first year as a trainee in the UK, I undertook a post-graduate locum for training post at a teaching hospital. I focused my training towards gaining confidence, leadership and resilience. I also worked towards developing competences, attitude and clinical skills reflecting good medical
practice. My rotations included Urology, General Surgery, Endocrinology and Respiratory medicine. This allowed to improve both my medical and surgical skills.
This was my first Job post graduating from medical school and so I utilised it to build up my knowledge as well as build my clinical skills. My rotations included medicine, paediatrics, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, emergency medicine, primary health care, radiology and ophthalmology. Being exposed to a number of specialities allowed me to be a part of several teams, work with different people in different settings and build up my confidence and communication skills.
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