Tier 3 - Educational Supervisor Training Pathway (Pre April 2024)
NB: This pathway will be coming to an end on 30 April 2024.
If you are currently undertaking this process, please make sure to complete it by April 2024.
Details on the new pathway are available here.
A Tier 3 Educator in General Practice (also known as a GP Trainer) can provide both Clinical and Educational Supervision to Foundation Doctors and GP Trainees at all stages of training.
Tier 3 approval also enables a GP Educator to provide Clinical Supervision in Out-of-Hours settings.
There are different routes to initial approval - depending on whether the applicant has completed a PGCert in Medical Education or is already a Tier 2 Educator.
Route A: Details the process for a new starter.
Route B: is the process for an applicant already holding a PGCert.
Route C: Details the conversion process for an existing Tier 2 Educator.
If you trained as an Associate Trainer (Tier 2a) in the new HEE Tiered System from 2018 onwards, then you don’t need to complete the material you’ve already completed. You can complete a brief Refresher Pack and the Advanced Pack to become a GP Trainer (Tier 3). The online Primary Care School Webinar will be unchanged, so you only need to attend the part of that morning that you haven’t already completed.
If you trained as an Associate Trainer before the new Tiered Educator system in 2018 was introduced, then you will need to complete all elements for the Tier of GP Educator you wish to become as if you were a new starter. This is because so many of the elements of training have fundamentally changed in that time and so have the challenges in supporting our trainees. The feedback that we’ve had from delegates so far is that they’ve found this additional learning valuable, and that any additional time taken is probably saved in knowing how to most efficiently and effectively help the group of learners that they’re trying to support.
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