6. Themed Days

6.1. Day 1: Introduction to the Placement

Preparatory work  

Complete the following activities to prepare for your first placement day: 

  • Prepare questions to ask a team member, focusing on finding out about their training, role and responsibilities within the Primary Health Care Team, and reasons for working in Primary Health Care.  

 


 

 

Watch this video  on the day in the life of the GP.

Did anything stand out for you about this GP's typical day?

  • Activity: - did you catch all the members that could work at the practice team? 

  • Did this surprise you and if so, why?   Perhaps reflect upon this for a moment and discuss on the day with your peers. 


Aims  

  • To welcome you to the practice and meet your GP tutor and the practice team.   

  • To clarify learning outcomes for the course.  

Learning Outcomes  

By the end of the day, you should be able to:  

  • Know how to contact your tutor and/or members of your tutor group  

  • Describe the overall aims of the course  

  • Interview a member of staff about their role and responsibilities within the primary care team.  Summarise findings from the interviews .  

  

Example timetable  

9.30 – 10.30   

 
 

Welcome & Introductions , Tour of the surgery, Icebreaker activity 

 

 Introductory activities - meeting tutors and peer group; ice-breaker activity; overview of course including aims, assessments and student expectations; ground rules discussion outlining group etiquette and professional behaviour expected of students i.e. time keeping, attire, contacting tutor/practice if unable to attend; collecting contact details for each student; other miscellaneous e.g. set up WhatsApp group 

10.30 – 10.45   

  

Tea break 

10.45 – 11.45  

Inclusive Induction Activity* 

Group activity – Who’s who? Make a list of roles within the primary health care team and suggest what they do 

Plan questions for interviews with practice team members  

  

11.45 – 12.45  

 Meeting the practice team - interviews with team members in small groups (if there are team members who are unavailable this could be pre-recorded)  

Each small group feedbacks to group – this puts real names and faces to the Who’s who? list   

 

 

12.45 – 13.45  

Lunch  

  

13.45 – 14.30  

 Inclusive Induction Activity*   

Group activity – Introduction to MedSoc Quiz - see Appendix, answers will be uploaded at the end of 3/10/24.

  

14.30 – 15.30  

 Inclusive Induction Activity* 

 Group activity - Speak to your fellow peers.  Find out 3 pieces of information that our important to them. Subdivide in 2 groups and recall information – can use University challenge format.* 

Includes tea break  

  

15.30 – 16.00  

General Q&A/Feedback on day 1  

Set homework for next session  

  

  

Suggested Activities  

 

  • Speak to one fellow student.  Find out 3 pieces of information that are important to them.  For example – they're favourite hobby, they’re favourite food and 1 thing that they think is important about them.  Everyone can share their findings in the morning.  In the afternoon – split in to 2 teams then see if you can remember these key pieces of information about your peers when asked.   You can make this fun by playing this in the University challenge format.  It is a good opportunity for you to speak to colleagues, find out what is important to them and recall important information. 

  • *University challenge example format -  Each team should nominate a captain at the start.  Questions begin in the form of starters for 10 points and can be answered by raising your hand or making a buzz noise with no conferring.  The team that answers a starter correctly then gets three linked bonus questions for 5 points each during which the team may confer, with the captain giving their final answer. If a contestant interrupts a starter question and answers incorrectly, his or her team loses 5 points and the other side gets the whole question.


Suggested Activities  

  • Who’s who? Identify different members of the practice team. Interview with member of the Primary Care Team about their role.   

 

Questions for you to consider  

  • Who did you meet from the practice team today? Did anything you found out about that person’s role surprise you?  Were you aware that there was such a role?  Were you aware that so many different people were part of the primary health care team?