GP Specialty Training Programme

Boston

Boston programme

The Boston GP Specialty Training Programme is one of the oldest schemes in the country and offers excellent personal training for general practice. It is a three-year programme starting in August which incorporates 20 months in general practice posts and 16 months in hospital specialties. Our GP specialty registrars think highly of the scheme and many of them have gone on to practise locally on completion of their training.

All Boston trainers are very enthusiastic and their practices are of an exceptional standard. The training in general practices is made up of a mixture of urban and rural training.

Rotational hospital posts attached to the scheme are based at Pilgrim Hospital which is a friendly, busy (but not frantic) hospital with a pleasant atmosphere and very good facilities. Hospital rotations are arranged individually to meet educational needs and include obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, medicine of the elderly, cardiology, psychiatry, psychogeriatrics and accident and emergency.

The Boston programme has a high standard of teaching designed to meet group and individual needs. The half-day release seminars are based on a three-year rotating programme and are highly thought of by the GP specialty registrars who find them educationally stimulating. Training is provided for all aspects of the new MRCGP. One of our programme directors is an MRCGP examiner and Associate Postgraduate Dean at East Midlands Deanery. There is an excellent programme of postgraduate activity for both GP specialty registrars and GP principals locally.

A two-day residential workshop is held annually at a local hotel to which both GP specialty registrars and GP trainers are invited. Examples of comments made by GP specialty registrars on this year’s workshop are:

“It was a wonderful experience/Will recommend to future junior colleagues/I really enjoyed this workshop – good learning exercise”