Educators’ Corner: Tools & resources designed to support you
Practical, ready-to-use tools for GP trainers, Primary Care Medical Educators, Training Programme Directors and GP Training Educators. Free downloads, case examples, and premium SCA practice resources - all designed to support your teaching and enhance their learning.
Trainer Tools
Find the IMP
Understanding What Really Matters to Patients
Trainees often ask about work, home, or daily life in a routine, tick-box way — without discovering how these factors shape the patient’s experience of illness, health beliefs, or what they need from the consultation. Find the IMP provides a structured, natural approach to explore these deeper psychosocial dimensions:
Impact – Understand how the condition affects all areas of life, from work and home responsibilities to relationships and daily routines.
Meaning – Explore the personal and emotional significance of illness, including fears, worries, or beliefs that influence behaviour and engagement with care.
Priorities – Identify what matters most to the patient in the consultation and in their broader life, allowing management to address what the patient truly values.
Using IMP, trainees can integrate these insights into explanations and management plans, tailoring care to the patient’s lived experience. This improves consultation quality, supports better patient outcomes, and aligns closely with RCGP SCA competencies for patient-centred communication, data gathering, and clinical management.
**Monthly Cases**
December Cases Available
Each month, we’ll be sharing two brand new ready to use cases; each evidenced against latest guidance (always referenced) and RCGP standards (COTs/SCA aligned.
These are designed to be used in, and support trainers, in tutorials, or one-to-one supervision. These cases are designed to reflect real-world general practice, with opportunities to explore clinical reasoning, communication skills, and patient-centred management
They are developed so that the trainer can use with ST1, ST2 and ST3 resident doctors, using their discretion with the psychosocial and patient attitudes and beliefs to increase the challenge as needed
December’s cases (click on them to download):
Each case pack includes:
Doctor’s notes
Patient script
Evidence-based guidance with relevant links (NICE, CKS, BNF, etc.)
Optional tutor guidance for qualitative feedback
Whether used as part of assessments or broader consultation skills teaching, these cases are designed to prompt discussion, encourage reflection, and support confident, structured learning.
October Cases will be release early October - subscribe if you want to be emailed when they go live!
CATS Toolkit
Supporting trainees/resident doctors with the ST3 Leadership Activity can be challenging — it’s often reduced to a “tick-box” exercise. The CATs Toolkit is designed to help supervisors guide their trainees in choosing and completing a project that is realistic, meaningful, and fully aligned with RCGP WPBA requirements.
This resource includes:
Guidance on the 9 different CATS
Clear mapping to capability and learning needs which CAT supports
Identification of scenarios which map to the CATS
👉 Download the toolkit to use in WPBA and support your trainees with assessments that address and support identified learning needs and gaps.
New resources released each month
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Half Day Release Resources
Planning Resources
Teaching Sessions for December
Although we’re releasing these resources in December they’re designed to be flexible. Use them now if you’re ready, or save them for later in the training year when they best fit your programme.
Whenever you choose to use them, we hope they save you time and spark meaningful learning for your trainees.
w/c 8th December
Communication Skills
Always useful to do role play sessions. The cases here come with doctors note, script, management references, a marking scheme within the SCA domains. For ST3’s this may work well. You may choose to ditch the marking scheme for ST1 and ST2’s and give more qualitative/narrative feedback.
These cases can be used with actors or trainees being the patient (don’t underestimate the value of the latter , particularly for trainees who struggle with empathy or valuing patient priorities)
w/c 15th December
Clinical Conundrums
20-30minutes starter to create energised discussions
Quick Random Scenarios - Give Trainees 5 minutes in small groups
Come back together - What did they decide & why -Explore as needed.
December’s Clinical Conundrums
w/c 22nd December
Many programmes take a 2 week break over Christmas, this allows for all the bank holidays and leave that is commonly taken at this time of year. It also recognises that due to BH’s and leave that those in work (including educators) may need to prioritise clinical demands - don’t worry, you’ll be back teaching in January with many clinical stories to inform your sessions!
Premium Services - Clinical Cases for GP Teaching Programmes
4 Cases with doctors brief, patient’s script and marking scheme matched to SCA domains.
All within the Women’s Health Curriculum - perfect for SCA preparation or communication skills sessions on this challenging area of the RCGP curriculum
A secure link is sent to you to download after payment received
A ready-to-use set of four high-quality role play cases, perfect for a GP teaching session focused on communication skills. Each case includes candidate notes, patient script, & educators brief/marking guide mapped to RCGP SCA domains.
Curriculum-linked
Realistic scenarios
Saves hours of educator prep time
All ready-to-use sets are sent, as PDF’s, within 2 working days
Your own six-case SCA mock exam, we use your brief to provide cases which meet your teaching priorities. If you wish to cover specific clinical topics, specific consultation challenges, then opt for our bespoke service and we’ll provide you with 6 cases aligned to the RCGP SCA and your brief
Customised
Curriculum-mapped
Delivered within 1 week via email
Perfect for educators who want a truly tailored exam experience for their trainees.
*Purchase Orders
If your organisation requires a Purchase Order (PO) before confirming a booking, GP Fluency will provide a pro forma invoice or quotation on request. This document will outline the agreed services, costs, and terms to support your internal approval process. Once a valid PO number has been issued and acknowledged, the delivery timeline will begin, and GP Fluency will proceed with fulfilling your order. Please contact us via the custom requests or contact us page
Run a full, timed mock SCA in your programme with six ready-to-use cases that reflect the breadth of the GP curriculum. Includes patient scripts, candidate briefs, examiners mark schemes and notes.
For use in 12minute SCA Remote Consultations
Easily used for in person Mocks too (note there are no physical examinations in line with SCA expectations)
Designed to challenge and support
Ready for you to use on receiving
Everything you need to deliver a high-quality mock exam without the hours of case writing.
All ready-to-use sets are sent within 2 working days via email
Premium Services - Mock SCA Resources for GP Teaching Programmes
Run a full, timed mock SCA in your programme with six ready-to-use cases that reflect the breadth of the GP curriculum. Includes patient scripts, candidate briefs, examiners mark schemes and notes.
For use in 12minute SCA Remote Consultations
Easily used for in person Mocks too (note there are no physical examinations in line with SCA expectations)
Designed to challenge and support
Ready for you to use on receiving
Everything you need to deliver a high-quality mock exam without the hours of case writing.
All ready-to-use sets are sent within 2 working days via email
Your own six-case SCA mock exam, we use your brief to provide cases which meet your teaching priorities. If you wish to cover specific clinical topics, specific consultation challenges, then opt for our bespoke service and we’ll provide you with 6 cases aligned to the RCGP SCA and your brief
Customised
Curriculum-mapped
Delivered within 1 week via email
Perfect for educators who want a truly tailored exam experience for their trainees.
*Purchase Orders
If your organisation requires a Purchase Order (PO) before confirming a booking, GP Fluency will provide a pro forma invoice or quotation on request. This document will outline the agreed services, costs, and terms to support your internal approval process. Once a valid PO number has been issued and acknowledged, the delivery timeline will begin, and GP Fluency will proceed with fulfilling your order. Please contact us via the custom requests or contact us page
Custom Requests
Need something different? Whether it’s a short case for a teaching session, or an extended role play for a specific skill area, contact us with your request and we’ll see what’s possible