2010: Sustainable Teaching in Community Based General Practice Survey
To obtain an accurate and relevant picture for Western Australia, WAGPET is investigating the ongoing sustainability of training GP Registrars and Residents in our practices.
The study will be completed in 2010 and is not connected with any other survey previously or concurrently undertaken. It is user friendly, pre-tested, and the results will allow a Western Australian perspective on the costs and benefits to practices taking trainees. The WAGPET Board and GP Supervisors Forum have commissioned Adelaide to Outback, another Regional Training Provider, to conduct the survey. AOGP conducted their own research for their Regional Training Provider in 2009 with excellent response rates and outcomes.
Many of our practices train students, prevocational doctors and registrars and with increased numbers coming through, the challenge is to ensure we have the practice interest, capacity and funding right. We recognise that the imposts on practices in staff time, rooms and reporting are significant, increasing and may not be fully recompensed.
The survey is designed to determine for our practices:
§ Current teaching load
§ Financial cost to the whole practice
§ Requirements needed to expand the numbers of trainees and
§ Capacity to expand teaching.
The data provided is entirely confidential and will be accessible to AOGP project staff only. Names and details are kept separate from the information provided in this questionnaire and will be replaced with an ID number for follow up purposes. At no time will identifiable individual data be reported. Only aggregated data will be reported.
Supervisors can expect to receive the survey at their practices during the first week of February 2010.
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