Trainee Hub - Practical Resources for GP Training)
Resources to support AKT preparation, SCA practice, WPBA evidence, clinical learning and day-to-day GP training.
Our Trainee Hub brings together practical, GP-focused resources to support you through clinical work, assessment, reflection and everyday training.
You’ll find quick guides, self-directed learning resources, communication skills support, AKT statistics modules, SCA-style cases and tools to help with WPBA and ePortfolio evidence.
The aim is not to add more noise. It is to make GP training feel a little more navigable, with resources that are clear, clinically grounded and easy to return to when you need them.
Free monthly resources to support statistics, evidence interpretation, risk, screening, test performance and AKT-style questions when consolidating.
July: Predictive Values and Pre-test Probability
Communication Skills and SCA Support
Practical resources to help with consultation structure, rapport, explanations, shared decision making, IMP, challenging conversations and SCA Style Practice.
Guidance to help you use everyday clinical work as evidence, link learning to capabilities, prepare for ARCP and show progression over time.
Resources to support wider AKT preparation, including applied clinical knowledge, data interpretation, exam preparation and reasoning.
GP-focused resources for common clinical topics with attention to what you need to know, explain, do and safety net for independent general practice and exam preparation.
Live teaching for GP trainees, including AKT Statistics and consultation skills courses with a focus on practical application, confidence and exam relevant learning.
November Statistics Monthly Focus:
Study Designs
This self-directed Monthly Focus introduces common study designs in a way that is practical, clinically relevant, and clearly aligned to how these ideas are tested in the AKT. It focuses on recognising how studies are structured, understanding what different designs can and cannot tell you, and avoiding common mistakes when interpreting research evidence.
The resource is designed to support:
Recognising randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, case-control studies and systematic reviews
Distinguishing study designs by how participants are selected and where the study starts
Understanding the main strengths and limitations of different study designs
Recognising the difference between a systematic review and a meta-analysis
Interpreting associations without assuming that they prove causation
Recognising what AKT-style questions are really testing when study design is embedded within a clinical scenario
Communication Skills
These resources focus on how consultations work in real general practice — supporting you to understand patients’ perspectives, manage complexity, and develop plans that fit the person in front of you. The emphasis is on practical consultation skills that can be used day-to-day, with awareness of how communication is assessed in GP training, including the SCA.
Advance Care Planning Conversations (recently updated)
Explanations:
“Let’s Talk About…” are practical resources to support GP trainees with common clinical and professional conversations in general practice.
Do They Actually Understand? A practical approach to eliciting and checking patient understanding in GP consultations
Clinical Resources
These resources are designed with real-life general practice in mind: what you need to know, understand, do and share in clinical practice.
They also consider how these topics may be assessed in the AKT and SCA, where clinical knowledge, reasoning, explanation and safety-netting often overlap.
Palliative and End of Life Care (new)
Children & Young People: Musculoskeletal: Limp & Joint Pain (new)
Children & Young People: Keeping children in view (new)
AKT Preparation: An Applied Approach
Many trainees are told to “revise more” for the AKT. In reality, the AKT is an applied exam — and preparation works best when it reflects how you actually practise.
This free guide outlines practical, evidence-aligned approaches that consistently support strong AKT performance. It emphasises clinical foundations, deliberate use of your GP placement, thoughtful application of knowledge and structured study — not just question volume.
If you want preparation that mirrors real general practice and builds confident performance, start here.
Additional Resources:
Evidence Based Practice:
AKT Style Questions
Respiratory Conditions: AKT Style Questions with Explanations (new)
Smoking, Alcohol & Substance Misuse: AKT Style Questions with Explanations (new)
Primary Care Organisation & Management
NHS Structures and Roles - SDL Guide (updated September 2026, including the 2026 ICB reorganisation and current NHS reform proposals)
Data protection for the AKT (new)
WPBA & ePortfolio Support
These resources help you use everyday clinical encounters as learning opportunities and make WPBA feel more constructive.
They focus on using learning log entries, workplace-based assessments and routine clinical experiences to show progression, link evidence to capabilities, and prepare more confidently for ARCP.
ePortfolio - WPBA, Learning Log Entries and more
Urgent & Unscheduled Care/Out of Hours
OOH/Urgent & Unscheduled Care Quick Reference (updated September 2026)
A quick reference guide to help GP trainees understand OOH/UUC as both a learning opportunity and a portfolio requirement. It clarifies national and local expectations, suggests what good ePortfolio evidence can look like, and helps trainees move beyond “getting the hours done” towards demonstrating safe, reflective urgent care.
ARCP Preparation
ARCP Preparation: Understanding Requirements & Common Issues (updated August 2026)
Outlines expected evidence and common areas that can lead to ARCP issues, supporting ESR preparation at all stages of training, including full-time, LTFT, out-of-sync and out-of-programme trainees.
ARCP Preparation: Outcome 5 Avoider
Highlights common areas that are often missing, incomplete or misunderstood and may lead to Outcome 5 at ARCP
CCT To-Do List: First 5 / Next 5 (recently added)
A practical resource for GP trainees approaching or just beyond final ARCP. This guide covers the First 5 essential post-CCT steps and the Next 5 professional-life essentials — from GP Register and Performers List checks to indemnity, appraisal, tax, clinical tools and final practice exit planning.