Teaching can be split according to your year group and you will often be taught with your peers.
There are weekly teaching sessions with all levels of doctors from F1 to consultant in attendance. These sessions start with a case presentation, where junior doctors will present an interesting case to the group. This is a great opportunity to learn about interesting cases and take part in discussions. Following this we have a journal club presentation, where an article is chosen and presented by junior doctors. Again, this is a great opportunity to discuss and keep up to date with the latest research and interesting findings. This is also how you will complete your case presentation and journal club presentation requirements for ARCP. For Nottingham based doctors these take place on a Wednesday morning. For Mansfield doctors these sessions are held on Monday afternoons.
Core trainees will also be expected to attend the MRCPsych Teaching course. These are whole day teaching sessions where you will be taught in your year group and core trainees from other areas within the East Midlands also join. The sessions cover topics which are part of the exam curriculum are a great opportunity to learn more detail about the subjects while preparing you for exams. There are plenty of opportunity for interaction and questions.
We also have simulation teaching, which is run with Nottingham and Mansfield based core trainees and with your core trainee year group only. This means that the sessions are smaller with more opportunity for interaction and group contribution. In this teaching session, one trainee will participate in a simulation scenario where the others will observe. Feedback on how this went is then given and the scenario is discussed amongst the group, although sometimes daunting, these simulation sessions are very useful times to reflect on your own communication skills and practice for real-life difficult conversations.
There is also a teaching programme run by core trainees at Nottinghamshire Healthcare. This was set up to help GP and Foundation Trainees develop their understanding of general psychiatry. Case based discussion sessions are led by core trainees. Higher trainees also attend and will observe and complete an assessment of teaching for the core trainee.
To aid with our child and adolescent experience we have teaching sessions run by a child and adolescent consultant. This is a great opportunity to discuss cases or questions which arise during on calls. Often cases are presented, which can be a useful opportunity to learn from real-life examples and discuss specifics of child and adolescent psychiatry.