“Ogbonna continued to pester the woman after the filming was completed because he was unhappy with his performance and wanted to re-record certain aspects of it. When the patient refused to return, he started to cry, the panel was told.“
How on earth do these people make it through the training required to become a doctor and subsequent selection to work as a doctor. I was under the impression that this was a fairly stressful and difficult procedure.
UnoriginalWebHandle on
Jeez, some amount of detachment is probably a good thing in a doctor, but that’s sociopathic.
LadyMirkwood on
I understand doctors are under a huge amount of stress but there is a real problem with empathy in general practice.
Myself and others I speak to have felt quite let down by the cold nature of their GPs, especially around MH. While I don’t expect a hanky and hugs, I don’t expect to be treated like an irritation or inconvenience either.
My GP barely looks at you, let alone talk you through things or listen to your concerns. She just taps mutely at the computer and gives you tablets. Yes, time is at a premium, but not being rude or dismissive isn’t much to ask.
Rowcoy on
This would have been the RCA exam that the RCGP came up with during the Covid pandemic, it always was a steaming pile of horse excrement.
It was the final exam that GP trainees had to pass prior to qualifying as fully fledged GPs. Before Covid there was the far better CSA exam which involved trainees going to an exam centre and sitting a simulated GP clinic. This involved the full range of clinical and non clinical cases a GP would be expected to encounter and it involved actors and was therefore a fair assessment of how candidates did compared to their peers.
During the pandemic the RCGP really didn’t have a clue how they would assess GP trainees and ultimately came up with the RCA. Essentially GP trainees recorded their consultations and then submitted these cases which were then assessed. This was certainly open to manipulation in a way that just was not possible with the old CSA. That is what appears to have happened here with the GP trainee very insensitively creating and seemingly scripting a case to make sure they got a good grade. This was not allowed in the exam, these were supposed to be the kind of spontaneous cases you would generally get in GP.
_TLDR_Swinton on
“A doctor has been suspended after he pressured a newly bereaved female patient to cry on a training video so that he could prove he had empathy.”
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“Ogbonna continued to pester the woman after the filming was completed because he was unhappy with his performance and wanted to re-record certain aspects of it. When the patient refused to return, he started to cry, the panel was told.“
How on earth do these people make it through the training required to become a doctor and subsequent selection to work as a doctor. I was under the impression that this was a fairly stressful and difficult procedure.
Jeez, some amount of detachment is probably a good thing in a doctor, but that’s sociopathic.
I understand doctors are under a huge amount of stress but there is a real problem with empathy in general practice.
Myself and others I speak to have felt quite let down by the cold nature of their GPs, especially around MH. While I don’t expect a hanky and hugs, I don’t expect to be treated like an irritation or inconvenience either.
My GP barely looks at you, let alone talk you through things or listen to your concerns. She just taps mutely at the computer and gives you tablets. Yes, time is at a premium, but not being rude or dismissive isn’t much to ask.
This would have been the RCA exam that the RCGP came up with during the Covid pandemic, it always was a steaming pile of horse excrement.
It was the final exam that GP trainees had to pass prior to qualifying as fully fledged GPs. Before Covid there was the far better CSA exam which involved trainees going to an exam centre and sitting a simulated GP clinic. This involved the full range of clinical and non clinical cases a GP would be expected to encounter and it involved actors and was therefore a fair assessment of how candidates did compared to their peers.
During the pandemic the RCGP really didn’t have a clue how they would assess GP trainees and ultimately came up with the RCA. Essentially GP trainees recorded their consultations and then submitted these cases which were then assessed. This was certainly open to manipulation in a way that just was not possible with the old CSA. That is what appears to have happened here with the GP trainee very insensitively creating and seemingly scripting a case to make sure they got a good grade. This was not allowed in the exam, these were supposed to be the kind of spontaneous cases you would generally get in GP.
“A doctor has been suspended after he pressured a newly bereaved female patient to cry on a training video so that he could prove he had empathy.”
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