GP Online Training Evaluation (GOTE)
Project Status
Completed
Chief investigators
Nick Zwar, Catherine Spooner, Mark Harris, Michael Tam, Siaw-Teng Liaw (UNSW), Parker Magin (GP Synergy)
Project coordinator
Catherine Spooner (CPHCE)
Team member
Hania Rahimi (CPHCE)
Project Rationale
Research skills are of great value and relevance to GPs. Every day, GPs are faced with decisions that will have a real impact on patients’ lives and those decisions should be based on good evidence as much as possible.
The Australian General Practice Training Program is a vocational training program for doctors who want to specialise as GPs. The GP Research Skills education program forms part of the educational program that all registrars do to meet the curriculum requirements.
GP Synergy provides training to GP registrars in NSW and contracted UNSW Medicine to create an online, interactive Research Methods Teaching Module for General Practice Registrars. GP Synergy deploys the program, which is compulsory for the GP registrars participating in the GP registrars’ program.
Learning outcomes for the program are for GP registrars to be able to:
- identify and describe links between research and practice
- critically evaluate research papers and apply the findings to examples from practice
- describe the principles of research design including quantitative and qualitative methods, systematic review and meta-analysis
- identify and utilise sources of further information about research and opportunities for research training
- participate in research.
The modules are also available on the CPHCE website and can be used by anyone who wants to self-complete the course. Click here to access the modules.
Project Aim/s
The evaluation aims to provide information to inform improvements to the program for subsequent cohorts.
Project Design and Method
The evaluation comprised collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an online survey and semi-structured telephone interviews with GP registrars who had completed the modules.
