WHY CHOOSE YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER?
If you like excitement and diversity Yorkshire and the Humber is a great place to live and learn - and you will get excellent support to become a GP.
Superb Shopping, Sports, Entertainment and a lively culture contrasts with stunning scenery and coastline. Where else can you combine closeness to nature with a great lifestyle - and get such a high quality of training for General Practice?
- If you want to be GP in Yorkshire and the Humber, you probably can. Our competition ratios for selection are pretty good now and will get better still - we are expanding and will offer an extra 25% of ST1 entry places in 2010 – a total of 309.
- We encourage excellence – special programmes are on offer for those who know already that they want to teach or do research.
- We try to keep families together, so if you have strong personal reasons to work in a particular place, then you probably can – see our unique ‘Geographical Choices’ policy – no other deanery does this .
- Candidates get the opportunity to rank all the 309 training programme rotations available – most deaneries only allocate you a place on a training programme - 95% got their top third of choices last year.
- So if you want to do Paeds, O&G, A&E and Psych in say Rotherham then you stand a decent chance of being able to.
- We have a good track record in training international medical graduates – 36% in 2009 – and have developed programmes to help acquire the skills everyone needs to pass the clinical skills assessment for the MRCGP exam.
- A very high proportion of our trainees successfully complete their general practice training.
- Employment prospects for GPs are great in Yorkshire and the Humber – you will easily find work here and most like it so much they end up working near their training programme!
General Practice Recruitment 2010 - Dates for the Diary
More detailed information, including specific times will be released shortly, however please find below the important dates for the 2010 General Practice Recruitment Process:
ROUND 1
STAGE 1
The On-line application window will open on Monday 7th December and close at Midnight on Sunday 20th December 2010. Please see the National Recruitment Office website for more detailed information on how to apply:
National Recruitment Office for General Practice Training (NRO) website
STAGE 2
We will be holding two Stage 2 Assessment Centres in Yorkshire and the Humber on Saturday 6th February 2010. These will be held at the follwoing venues. Exact times and candidate instructions will be made available at a later date:
1. Indoor Athletics Centre, John Charles Centre for Sport, Middleton Grove, Leeds, LS11 5DJ
2. Don Valley Stadium, Worksop Road, Sheffield, S9 3TL.
STAGE 3
We will be holding a Stage 3 Selection Centre in each of our three localities:
1. North & East Yorkshire - Tuesday 2nd to Friday 5th March 2010 - The KC (Kingston Communications) Stadium, The Circle, Walton Street, Hull, HU3 6HU.
2. West Yorkshire - Monday 8th to Friday 12th March 2010 - East Stand, Ellad Road Football Stadium, Elland Road, Leeds, LS11 0ES.
3. South Yorkshire - Tuesday 9th to Thursday 11th March 2010 - Don Valley House, Savile Street East, Sheffield, S4 7UQ.
Details for a Round 2 will be published when it is established whether this is going to be necessary in Yorkshire and The Humber. Please keep checking this website for further information.
The GPST Recruitment Process 2010
- A National process governs recruitment to GP training.
- You will find the details of the process in an Applicants’ Guide on the National Recruitment Office for General Practice Training (NRO) website. This site provides information and advice relating to eligibility, training options and frequently asked questions and is a "must visit" for all applicants!
- Applications can only be made online
- For a calendar of dates and deadlines click here
- Opportunities for Less Than Full Time Training:
Successful candidates appointed to Yorkshire and the Humber Postgraduate Deanery are able to apply for Less Than Full Time Training. The Yorkshire and the Humber Postgraduate Deanery has a number of trainees training flexible/less than full time.
Stage 1- Long Listing
Applications are long listed for eligibility using the entry criteria as shown in the Applicants’ Guide.
Stage 2 - Short Listing
For full details of the Stage 2 assessment, please refer to the Applicants’ Guide.
Stage 3 - Selection Centre
All UK GP Deaneries have adopted a Selection Centre approach to General Practice Specialist Training Programme (GPSTP) recruitment.
The Deanery has been using a selection centre approach for the last three years. The selection centre provides a number of opportunities to 'shine' through the different assessments and scenarios rather than the single opportunity provided by the traditional interview. Candidates have found the process to be transparent and fair and feedback has been very positive.
The National Recruitment Office provides some invaluable advice on the various assessments used at the Selection Centre. To read more, click here.
Allocation of places on training programmes to successful candidates
Candidates who can show they have good enough competencies to be able to train to be independent GPs in a three year programme are placed in rank order according to their scores at the selection centres. Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery will take as many of these successful candidates as they have vacancies for, offering the highest ranking candidates places on training programmes.
There may be some candidates who have shown their competencies are suitable for GP training but Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery may not have enough vacancies to place them on training programmes. These candidates may be able to find vacant training programme places in other deaneries where there is a surplus of vacancies. This clearing process is handled by the National Recruitment Office for General Practice.
Candidates who are appointed to training programmes in Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery will be offered their choice according to their ranking by selection centre scores, unless they have applied for geographical restriction on where they can work. Our geographical restriction policy allows appointed candidates who otherwise would suffer considerable hardship with their training to ask to work only in a certain area. Please see the link to geographical restrictions on the right hand side for a more detailed explanation and information about the evidence you will need to provide. Further information will be available after stage 2 in late February.
Please click for the full Geographical Choices Policy
Information for Candidates
- You should arrive on time and be well rested if possible.
- Remember to bring all of the documentation and copies with you. An Applicants Guide providing specific details will be available on the National Recruitment Office website in due course. On arrival you will be registered and your documentation checked.
- Your photograph will be taken as part of the registration process. This is to ensure that all candidates are accurately matched to their assessments on the day.
- The Director will then brief all candidates to introduce you to the assessments ahead. After the briefing you will be escorted to your first assessment.
- You will have up to 30 minutes to complete each assessment. There is a short break (approximately 15 minutes) between the first and second assessments. After the third assessment, there will be a feedback and evaluation session.
- The feedback and evaluation session provides candidates with the opportunity to share perceptions and experiences with the Director and to complete preference and evaluation forms. All candidates are required to complete a preference form. This information will be used by the matching panel to try to match candidates who receive offers to a programme in their preferred locality within the region and to try to incorporate preferred specialties into their rotations.
- Candidates will also be invited to fill in a self evaluation and a candidate's evaluation of the application and assessment process. This does not form part of the assessment but is helpful in our quality control.
The Assessments
The Deanery is using assessment tools approved by the National Recruitment Office for General Practice Training (NRO). 
Candidates will take part in three exercises in any order. These are:
- A written exercise
- A patient consultation simulation
- A group exercise
The group and patient consultation simulation may be video taped or recorded on audiotape for training and/or quality control purposes. There may also be additional observers in attendance for training and/or calibration purposes.
Preparation
All exercises are observed by trained assessors who will assess candidates against the competencies outlined in the National Person Specifications. The only preparation suggested by the National Recruitment Office for General Practice Training is that you familiarise yourself with these competencies.
Reimbursement of Expenses for Candidates
For your expenses claim to be processed successfully, please ensure the following:
- All claims are submitted using the appropriate claim form, click the link in the right hand column
- All receipts (hotel receipt/train tickets/taxi receipts) are included with your claim form.
- Please note that claims for newspapers, alcoholic drinks and telephone calls will not be reimbursed and must be settled by the individual.
General Practice Recruitment 2009 Overview
General Practice Specialist Training Recruitment in Yorkshire and The Humber has now been concluded for the 2009 Calendar Year.
After the completion of the Round 2 in early June, we are pleased to confirm that we have appointed 266 candidates who will start General Practice Training in either August 2009 or February 2010.
We have received several queries from trainees who have been appointed at either Round 1 or 2 with regards to the availability of further rotations in the region. Please be advised that there are no rotations available for this purpose, and any flexibility to existing ones will need to be discussed with Training Programme Directors at a local level.
All our Training Programmes have had the details for all the appointed trainees circulated to them, and have subsequently notified the relevant Trusts and PCT’s. As such, all trainees should be receiving official contracts of employment and supporting information from the aforementioned in the short term future, if they haven’t done so already. All trainees should be aware however, that this is not a Deanery driven process, so we are not able to provide definitive timescales for this. Any queries should be addressed to the Training Programme.