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Glossary of Primary Care - Second Draft

Library Documents

A. GENERAL TERMS
B. TERMS OF MEDICAL EDUCATION
C. TERMS OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
D. TERMS USED IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING
E. TERMS OF PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND CONTINUINE MEDICAL EDUCATION

D. TERMS USED IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING
D.1.	COURSE ORGANISER
	( Syn. Course Director).
	The person whose responsibility it is to organise programmes of specific vocational training. (MJB:NLG) 'Their role is to organise day release courses, coordinate arrangements for hospital posts, secure an orderly succession of rotations, complete the administrative requirements of the regional and national organisations, promote and develop a local trainers workshop and trainee group, and attend meetings of the appropriate advisers/organisers group and regional general practice subcommittee where indicated. Most organisers play an active part in the selection process of other general practitioner trainers (and of trainees) and are usually concerned with career counselling and serving on appropriate local education and library committees.' (DJ Pereira Gray Training for General Practice.)
D.2.	DESIGNATED HOSPITAL/CONMUNITY MEDICINE POSTS
	(Syn. 'Approved Posts').
	Those posts which are deemed educationally relevant and suitable -for specific vocational training, by Colleges or Health Authorities and which in some countries -form part of prescribed experience. (MJB:NLG)
D.3.	EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE
	Experience in hospital or practice posts which while not-prescribed or equal in all respects, is regarded as being of equal value in the assessment of specific vocational training. (MJB:NLG)
D.4.	ACCREDITATION
	The granting of status or credentials to a programme or individual indicating that, in the opinion of the accrediting body, certain requirements or standards have been met. (MJB from OED)
D.5.	MANDATORY
	ObIigatory; Essential to accreditation or recognition. (OED)
D.6.	RELEASE COURSE
	(Syn. Day Release, Half Day Release etc.)
	An organised programme of learning and teaching which forms part of specific vocational training and to attend which trainees must be released from their service commitments for the duration of the course. (MJB:NLG)
D.7.	TRAINEE
	One who is being trained. (OED)
D.8.	TRAINER/CLINICAL TEACHER
	A medical practitioner who is willing and able to teach his discipline and ready to make time available to do it. He must be clinically competent, experienced and active. He must be able to establish and maintain good relationships with patients and colleagues. His practice must be organised and housed as a suitable training setting. (MJB from Criteria for the Selection of Trainers JCPTGP 1976).
	CLINICAL TEACHER is the term applied when a general practitioner is teaching within his own practice, the term TRAINER when he does so specifically in relation to vocational training. (MARINKER in TEACHING GENERAL PRACTICE)
D.9.	VOCATION
	One"s ordinary occupation or profess-ion. (OED)
D.10.	PRINCIPAL
	(Syn. "General Practitioner Principal").
	One who has achieved the highest grade in his profession. (MJB from OED and DJ Pereira Gray)
	Became a legal title in the U.K. when incorporated in the Vocational Training Act. (1976), and implicitly officialIy recognised General Practice for the first time as an independent clinical discipline.
D.11.	TUTOR
	One who himself or through others, provides teaching for individuals or small groups.. (MJB:NLG)
D.12.	FACILITATOR
	One who makes communication easier. (MJB:NLG)
D.13.	ORIENTATION
	The action of ascertaining the relative position of anything or of oneself. (OED)
	To adjust the learners thinking in the direction of a definite goal. (MJB:NLG)