Educator Corner
Practical resources for GP educators: trainers, supervisors and teaching programmes
Ready-to-use resources for GP educators supporting trainees through supervision, WPBA, AKT preparation, consultation skills and group teaching.
Use this page to find tutorial cases, educator guides, seasonal teaching support and ready-to-deliver half-day release sessions.
Includes supervision tools, ePortfolio and WPBA support, AKT teaching resources, communication skills cases, and monthly teaching plans.
Support for GP trainers and educational supervisors, including supervision tools, placement logistics, induction, timetable and reasonable adjustment resources, ARCP preparation, WPBA guidance, communication skills support and exam resources.
Monthly consultation cases for tutorials, role-play and small-group teaching, supporting clinical reasoning, communication skills, patient-centred care and safe management planning.
New cases are added each month.
ES & CS — Supporting progress: Practical resources for reviewing how a trainee is settling into post, supporting everyday supervision and responding early when progress is not quite on track.
When progress is quite on track: Recognising early concerns, exploring what may be contributing, and responding proportionately.
5-minute debriefs: A practical structure for brief, focused learning conversations in everyday clinical supervision.
From ePortfolio evidence to ESR feedback: Support for supervisors to turn ePortfolio evidence into clear, useful and developmental feedback.
Ready-to-use teaching sessions for GP educators, including Hot Topics, Clinical Conundrums, communication skills sessions and larger group teaching resources for tutorials, half-day release and small-group teaching.
From settling in to making progress
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From settling in to making progress 〜
By October, trainees and training programmes are beginning to move beyond induction. It is a useful point to notice emerging patterns, strengthen supervision and shape teaching around the needs becoming visible.
PCME & TPD — Teaching for the autumn term: Ready-to-use teaching for the point in the year when trainees are moving beyond induction and starting to tackle more complex clinical reasoning, professional judgement and consultation challenges.
Adult Autism and ADHD Diagnosis: Ready-to-use teaching on assessment, referral and supporting adults in primary care.
Managing Uncertainty in Primary Care: Practical teaching on clinical judgement, risk, safety-netting and decision-making when the answer is not clear-cut.
Cardiovascular inequalities: Case based teaching, exploring how inequalities influence cardiovascular risk, access to care, prevention and outcomes in day to day general practice.
Trainer, ES and CS Resources
Practical resources for GP trainers, educational supervisors and clinical supervisors, supporting induction, supervision, WPBA, ePortfolio evidence, ARCP preparation, reasonable adjustments, consultation skills and exam support.
Some resources are educator-facing; others are trainee-facing tools that can be signposted during supervision, tutorials or placement planning.
Placement planning, Induction & ST3 transition to CCT
CCT preparation (trainee facing)
CCT to do list: First5/Next 5 (trainee facing)
Reasonable adjustments and inclusive training
Supervision
Returning to training after time away recently added
Tutorials
Starting ST3: Planning first 12 weeks -Tutorial Plan & Trainee preparation
Making extension time count - Tutorial Plan & Trainee preparation
ST3 Frailty tutorial - Tutorial Plan & Trainee preparation
ST1 Minor illnesses tutorial - Tutorial Plan & Trainee preparation
Approaching rashes: a tutorial - Tutorial Plan & Images
Seasonal vaccines tutorial - Tutorial Plan, Cases and Summary (new)
WPBA
Why GP training uses different assessments (trainee facing)
Learning with COTs (trainee facing)
CEPs without the panic (trainee facing)
QIA & QIP in GP Training (trainee facing)
What trainees need to do
ePortfolio
Urgent & Unscheduled Care / OOH Quick Guide - recently updated
ARCP
ARCP preparation - recently updated
Communication skills support
Find the IMP- eliciting and understanding the psychosocial context by exploring impact. meaning and patient priorities
Eliciting and checking patient understanding (trainee facing)
Managing, Sharing and Explaining Uncertainty (trainee facing)
Let’s talk about series (trainee facing) New resources recently added
Communication skills resources (trainee or educator facing)
AKT and Exam Support
AKT Preparation - an applied approach for GP trainees (trainee facing)
Cranial Nerves (trainee facing)
Respiratory Conditions (trainee facing)
Smoking, alcohol and substance misuse (trainee facing) recently added
NHS Structures and Roles (trainee facing) updated September 2026, including the 2026 ICB reorganisation and current NHS reform proposals)
Statistics monthly focus (trainee facing) - recently updated
Statistics for the AKT: Interpretation for clinical practice (study day for GP trainees)
Communication Skills Cases for Tutorials
Ready-to-use consultation cases for GP trainers and educational supervisors. Each case is designed for tutorial discussion, role-play or small-group teaching, with a focus on clinical reasoning, communication, patient priorities and safe management.
Some cases are written for one-to-one ES tutorials; others can be adapted for group teaching or SCA-style practice.
November’s Cases:
Hypnotic Request Polymyalgia Rheumatica
This month’s ES tutorial cases explore how apparently straightforward presentations can uncover a more complex clinical picture.
Trainees will work through a patient requesting a hypnotic for poor sleep, where careful assessment reveals alcohol dependence, withdrawal risk and concerns about the impact of drinking on her child, and a patient with proximal pain and stiffness where the challenge is recognising polymyalgia rheumatica, excluding important alternatives and addressing concerns about corticosteroid treatment.
Both cases require trainees to move beyond the presenting request: identifying the underlying problem, communicating the working diagnosis clearly, and developing a safe, proportionate plan that takes account of risk, function and the patient’s wider circumstances.
Recent Tutorial Cases
Browse recent cases from the last few months
Teaching Sessions
Ready-to-use teaching resources for GP educators, designed for use in weekly cohort teaching programmes.
They can be adapted for the learning needs of your teaching groups as well as used in tutorials or small-group discussion.
Hot Topics
Current or evolving areas of GP Practice, presented as practical, relevant teaching for GP trainees
November
A practical, case-based Hot Topic session exploring how to assess cough in general practice.
This follows on from last month’s breathlessness in primary care, continuing the case based approach to learning this frequent and varied presentation
For completeness the full Breathlessness Hot Topic session can be downloaded.
A bonus Hot Topics session to complete this respiratory triad is Chest Pain and can be downloaded here.
Communication Skills
Cases exploring how apparently straightforward presentations can reveal a more complex clinical picture.
Trainees will practise looking beyond the presenting symptom, forming a working diagnosis and developing a plan that reflects both clinical risk and the patient’s wider circumstances.
The cases require careful balance: making proportionate decisions, explaining uncertainty clearly, responding to treatment concerns and recognising when caring responsibilities, alcohol dependence or safeguarding need to shape the plan.
November
Teaching Sessions
Resources to deliver a half day teaching session, with broad RCGP curriculum and capability coverage
November:
The Unwell Child in Primary Care
A practical, workshop-based teaching session exploring how to assess and manage the unwell child in general practice.
Using realistic cases, trainees work through fever, respiratory illness, vomiting and dehydration, rash and parental concern, with a focus on weighing observations against the whole clinical picture, making proportionate decisions under uncertainty and using effective safety-netting when illness evolves.
Clinical Conundrums
Very short cased based discussion starters to explore uncertainty, clinical reasoning and safe decision making
November’s Conundrums
Browse Recent Teaching Resources
The Teaching Library brings together recent GP Fluency teaching sessions from the last few months, including Hot Topics, Clinical Conundrums, communication skills cases and wider curriculum teaching.
It is updated and refreshed regularly with practical resources to support you and your trainees, particularly in half-day release and small-group teaching.
Looking for teaching for your programme by experienced GP educators?
Case Packs & Commissioned Teaching
Alongside the free educator resources on this page, GP Fluency also offers downloadable case packs for GP trainers, educational supervisors and teaching programmes.
These packs are designed for structured role-play, tutorial discussion, SCA-style practice and communication skills teaching, with educator guidance and feedback prompts included.
Four ready-to-use clinical communication cases for GP trainees, designed for role-play, tutorial discussion and structured feedback.
These cases are on the more complex side, where the diagnosis is only part of the task. Trainees practise explaining uncertainty, responding to emotion, exploring patient priorities and building safe, shared management plans.
Each case includes candidate information, patient/actor briefing, clinical management considerations, educator notes and feedback guidance mapped to the RCGP SCA domains.
Six realistic mock SCA-style cases for GP trainees, designed for structured role-play, timed practice and feedback across a varied range of primary care consultations.
Each case includes candidate information, patient/actor briefing, clinical management considerations, educator notes and feedback guidance mapped to the RCGP SCA domains.
Bespoke Case Packs
GP Fluency can also curate bespoke case packs tailored to your programme’s needs. These can be built around specific curriculum areas, consultation skills themes, ethics, safeguarding, professional practice, clinical presentations or local teaching priorities.
Please get in touch with your requests and we’ll see what’s possible. Click here to contact us
Teaching for GP Training Programmes
GP Fluency also delivers teaching sessions and study days for GP training schemes. Current sessions include AKT Statistics: Interpretation for Clinical Practice, a full-day course supporting trainees with risk, effect measures, research interpretation, visual data and AKT-style statistics questions.
We also offer professional practice sessions covering areas such as confidentiality, consent and competence; complaints, mistakes and speaking up; and professional judgement when practice changes. These sessions are case-based, clinically relevant and designed for ST1–ST3 teaching programmes.
More information is available on the teaching sessions page, or contact us to discuss how sessions can be tailored to your programme’s needs.
Purchase Orders
If your organisation requires a Purchase Order before confirming a booking or resource order, GP Fluency can provide a quotation or pro forma invoice on request.
This will outline the agreed service or resource, costs and terms to support your internal approval process. Once a valid PO number has been issued and acknowledged, GP Fluency will proceed with fulfilling the order or confirming the agreed delivery timeline.
Please contact us to discuss your programme’s needs.