If you are about to start GP training, or you are a few weeks into ST1, there is a good chance someone has already mentioned “the ePortfolio” to you in a tone that suggested you should understand what it is. Most new trainees do not, and there is no reason you should. Nobody hands you a manual on day one, and the platform itself, FourteenFish, is not something most doctors have used before starting GP training. It helps to start with what the ePortfolio actually is, rather than what it feels like from the outside. It is the system that holds your entire training record together. Your curriculum, your workplace based assessments, your reflections and your annual review all sit inside it, and by the time you reach your Certificate of Completion of Training, it is effectively the evidence base your whole training has been built on. Seen that way, it stops being an administrative chore and becomes something closer to a working record of how you are developing as a doctor. This guide covers what you need to know in your first few weeks: how to get access, what makes a log entry genuinely useful rather than just present, how often to write, the mistakes that catch out most new trainees, and how all of this eventually feeds into your Educational Supervisor Review and ARCP. The aim is that you finish reading this feeling less like the ePortfolio is a mystery, and more like you have a workable routine for using it well. – For GP trainee update and teaching emails click here – Join National AKT WhatsApp teaching group here – Join National SCA WhatsApp teaching group here
If you have just found out you are starting GP training, or you are already a few weeks into ST1, there is a good chance you have heard the word MRCGP more times than you can count, usually said alongside WPBA, AKT and SCA, and rarely with anyone stopping to explain what any of it actually means. That gap is completely normal. GP training introduces a lot of unfamiliar structure very quickly, and the MRCGP sits right at the centre of it. This guide sets out, plainly and in one place, what the MRCGP actually is, what each of its three components measures, and how they fit together across your three years of training. – For GP trainee update and teaching emails click here – Join National AKT WhatsApp teaching group here – Join National SCA WhatsApp teaching group here
Most doctors who underperform in the MSRA are not short on ability. That is the pattern that keeps showing up, sitting after sitting, having worked with thousands of doctors preparing for this exam and having written questions for it myself. Candidates put in the hours, work through enormous numbers of practice questions, and still lose marks in the same handful of places. None of the seven mistakes below come down to how hard someone has worked. They come down to where the effort gets pointed, and all seven are fixable once you can see them clearly. Three sit on the clinical side, two on the SJT, and two on how preparation is planned and paced. Here they are. – Join National MSRA WhatsApp teaching group here – Get MSRA Updates and Teaching Emails here – Register for next Free MSRA Webinar here – Pass with MSRA Ultimate Package here
Most GP trainees who underperform in the MRCGP AKT are not short on knowledge. That is the pattern I keep seeing, sitting after sitting, having taught AKT preparation for well over a decade and worked through this exam with thousands of GP trainees. Candidates revise for months, cover an enormous volume of material, and still lose marks in the same handful of places. None of the five mistakes below are about how much a candidate knows. They are about technique, structure and where attention gets placed during revision, and all five are fixable with a few weeks of deliberate attention rather than a few more months of general reading. Here they are, in the order they tend to do the most damage. – Join National AKT WhatsApp Teaching Group here – Get AKT Updates and Teaching Emails here – Register for next Free AKT Webinar here – Pass with AKT Ultimate Package here
