As a GP, you have the opportunity to shape our future primary care workforce. Becoming an educator allows you to guide and equip aspiring GPs and primary care healthcare professionals with the skills and confidence to shape the future of primary care.
Why become a GP educator?
As healthcare transforms to bring care closer to communities, your expertise is essential in preparing the next generation of healthcare professionals for this evolving landscape. Step into this rewarding training role and leave a lasting impact on both your trainees and the care they provide.
Education offers GPs a rewarding way to diversify your career while maintaining clinical practice. It keeps your work varied and intellectually stimulating, allowing you to apply your knowledge and skills in different ways.
With you leading the way, multidisciplinary teams can realise their potential too. You’ll be part of the significant firsts and milestones in someone else’s learning journey whilst advancing your own career and actively participating in the transformation that will improve patient care.
“I’ve always enjoyed being involved with medical education, so becoming a GP trainer felt like a natural next step. I liked the idea of sharing my experiences in primary care and hoped it would give me a fresh challenge and add more variety to my working week. It’s about guiding, supporting and learning together. It adds variety to the working week and reminds you why you went into general practice in the first place.”
The benefits for you as an educator
Your role as an educator directly contributes to delivering better, more accessible healthcare in local communities. You’ll help prepare professionals who are equipped to meet the evolving needs of our growing and ageing population, strengthening the care provided closer to where people live.
You are needed now more than ever to shape the future of primary care.
Becoming a GP educator brings personal and professional rewards:
- the satisfaction of helping GP registrars develop into fully qualified GPs
- excellent peer support from local trainers’ groups and networks
- the opportunity to develop as an educator and enhance your own skills
- learning through teaching to keep one’s knowledge up to date
Hear from GP educators
Interested in becoming a GP educator but want to know more about how it works in practice? Read our case studies to discover the benefits for you, your service and patients, and see where the role could take your career.
Contact us
If you have any questions about becoming a GP educator, email the team at england.GPFaculty.SW@nhs.net.
Apply now
All qualified GPs wishing to pursue accreditation as a named educational and/or clinical supervisor should complete the online expression of interest form.