These are located in the South Eastern Health Board area to facilitate attendance at Day Release Programme. A half day release course is organised throughout the three year programme. This takes place on a Wednesday afternoon, from 2.30pm to 5.30pm, at the General Practice Teaching Unit, Regional Hospital, Waterford, during the academic term. The focus of the day release sessions is on the skills, attitude and knowledge base of General Practice. Trainees are encouraged to participate actively in selecting topics, choosing the resource people and presenting as many topics as possible themselves.
Preparatory work is under the supervision of a tutor.
The format of small group work encourages Trainees to identify their own learning needs as well as gaining the skills necessary to meet them. Personal Study Trainees are encouraged to develop the life long professional responsibility of continuing medical education. This may be achieved through critical reading of the literature, audit and peer review in the practice and basic research. Development of information technology skills both for research and presentation is encouraged Trainees will be expected to undertake a research project relevant to General Practice during their third year. Presentation of such research takes place at an annual study day.