Domain 1: Ensuring safe and effective care through training
This page is dedicated to the 1st Framework Area of the GMC Criteria for trainer recognition: Ensuring safe and effective care through training.
This section focusses on how you will ensure patient safety and improve care by supervising doctors in training, while balancing the needs of your patients and the service with the educational goals of your trainees.
Acts to ensure the health, wellbeing and safety of patients at all times
Ensures that trainees have undertaken appropriate induction
Allows trainees, when suitably competent, to take responsibility for care, appropriate to the needs of the patient
Evidence for Domain 1
Courses attended or programmes undertaken, including face to face and online learning, referencing patient safety through learning
GMC Trainee or Scottish Training Survey (STS) Results
Evidence should demonstrate discussion, reflection and action on these results
Your local ADME will be able to provide these if your department have not received them
Patient feedback centred around the care they have received from the medical team
Details of measures put in place to ensure supervision appropriate to trainee’s competence and confidence
This may include evidence of induction, regular contact and 1:1s with trainees to discuss patient care
Anonymised case-based discussions
Trainee led audit which assesses patient safety issue
Examples of near miss/critical incident analysis
Trainee input/feedback on help and guidance throughout this process, e.g. email correspondence (anonymised)
Attendance at morbidity and mortality meetings
Acting as an examiner for Undergraduate OSCEs
