If you are moving Health Board, or are leaving Scotland, you must make contact with your local Director of Medical Education (DME) Office to inform them. They can then update their systems and remove you as one of their trainers.

If you are stepping down from your trainer role, you must make contact with your local Director of Medical Education (DME) Office to inform them. They can then update their systems and remove you as one of their trainers.

Becoming a GP Foundation Supervisor, you need to follow the same Trainer Recognition process as your secondary-care colleagues. In the first instance, you need to make contact with your local Director of Medical Education (DME), who will guide you through the process. See the ‘Contacts’ section of this resource for details.

Also, see the ‘Trainers’ section of this resource, for more information.

To maintain your ‘recognised trainer’ status you will need to evidence your ongoing professional development as a trainer. You do not have to provide supporting information in all Framework areas every year but you will be expected to cover all relevant areas within your five-year recognition cycle, or your revalidation cycle - whichever comes first.

Ideally, your supporting documentation will include information about: what you do (timetables, rotas, teaching plans, Measurement of Teaching (MoT) data etc.); why you do it in that particular way (best practice identified from literature, attendance at training, discussions with colleagues, journal clubs, reflective notes etc.); how well you do it (student or trainee feedback, multi-source feedback, peer observation etc.)

See the ‘Trainers’ section of the manual for more information.

To maintain your ‘recognised trainer’ status you will need to evidence your ongoing professional development as a trainer. You do not have to provide supporting information in all Framework areas every year but you will be expected to cover all relevant areas within your five-year recognition cycle, or your revalidation cycle - whichever comes first.

See the ‘Trainers’ section of the manual for more information.

An updated list of all Recognised trainers in Scotland, will be submitted to the GMC on an annual basis. This will usually happen in January.

Newly-recognised trainers, will be uploaded onto the GMC list on a monthly basis.

If you are performing one of the ‘named’ trainer roles, you will need to meet the same requirements for recognition as your medically-qualified colleagues.

See the ‘Trainers’ section of the manual for more information.

If you do not use SOAR for appraisal, you will need to keep a record of your supporting information, collected over your 5-year recognition cycle. A 5-year summary document  or evidence log can be downloaded here to help with this.