Bromley GPTP

Role play

31.03.2010

Curriculum headings: Consultation skills

To demonstrate your consulting Skills

To observe and offer feedback to those role playing

If you had the opportunity to be a role player did you find the performance in front of your colleagues                

Fun x 2    OK x 3   Unpleasant x 0

How could the session be improved (everyone to answer)?

It worked well

Good, nice to have only 4 or so in a room. Useful to see others.

Very good. More anger.

Less cream.

Might be more useful for those about to do CSA to make consults 10 minutes rather than 12.

More briefing i.e. we needed to know an age and name would be helpful.

Longer or more sessions to practice more for the CSA.

Did you manage to offer constructive feedback? Explain.

Yes the standard was really good but given time limitations there were always questions that were not addressed

I think so.

Yes. Good points and bad points related to how cases were handled.

Yes, as much as possible.

Yes.

Yes it’s a nice safe environment so I think that helps.

I tried to offer positive and negative feedback for each doctor.

Was the feedback you received constructive and how will it change your consulting?  (If you did not role play you can still reflect and answer this)

Fewer closed questions.  Make more eye contact when explaining management options.

Yes, especially from actors.

Yes

Yes, though feedback was all positive.

Yes, good feedback from peers and actors in terms of how to improve.

It was useful.  Sessions like this are very good to help our styles.

Yes, need to develop my patter, consider explaining diagnosis and share options.

Would you like to have / liked to have had*  the opportunity to do this before your CSA exam?

(*delete as appropriate)

Yes x 6

It would have been good, before CSA

Were the types of conditions role played the type of cases you may see in a routine surgery?  Comments appreciated!

YES x 7                                                                     NO x0                                         

depression definitely, good representative cases, nice range of cases, saw one of the cases the previous day.

Were the actors convincing as patients?  Comments appreciated!!

            YES x 7                   SORT OF x 0                              NO x 0

Excellent, The male role player was quite ‘bad cop’ and the female a bit ‘good cop’.  I have to say I thought the female role player was especially good.