Stage | Month/Year | Participants & Location | Purpose | Methods | Outcome |
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1. | April 2010 | 72 GP Educational Supervisors (South East Region of Scotland, UK) | · To identify safety-critical educational issues to be covered in early GPST | · Three 90-min facilitated workshops | · Generation of 12 Flipchart sheets of qualitative data on issues perceived to be safety-critical during the first 12 weeks of GPST in the general practice environment |
 |  |  |  | · Group work and feedback |  |
2. | June 2010 | 2 Educational Researchers (PB & JM, Glasgow, UK) | · To code, categorise and theme qualitative data | · Thematic analysis | · Generation of 18 Domains and 67 Items perceived to be safety-critical educational issues to be covered during early GPST |
 |  |  | · To identify from key published literature on patient safety and primary care those issues with direct relevance to the GP training environment |  |  |
3. | July to October 2010 | 6 Educators (5 GPST Programme Directors and 1 General Practice Manager, Glasgow, UK) | · To validate and refine existing Domains and Items and identify issues not covered. | · Modified Delphi group method (three rounds) utilising list of Domains and Items using electronic mail | · Further refinement: 15 Domains and 55 Items |
 |  |  | · To explore potential uses of the information collected |  | · Agreement on development of a Checklist (for educational supervisors) and s Self-Assessment Tool (for GP trainees) |
4. | February 2011 | 11 GPST Course Organisers and 1 Training Practice Manager | · To further validate and refine Domains and Items deemed to be essential for the first 12 weeks of GPST and identify issues not covered | · Pre-workshop reading and reflection | · Further refinement of Checklist/Self-Assessment Tool content: 14 Domains and 47 Items |
 |  |  | · To explore issues around the acceptability and feasibility of the proposed Checklist and Self-Assessment Tool | · A single 4-h facilitated workshop |  |
 |  |  |  | · Group work and feedback |  |
5. | June to August 2011 | 9 GP Trainees | · To validate and refine Domains and Items deemed to be essential for the first 12 weeks of GPST and identify issues not covered | · A mix of workshop discussion (n = 3, 2 h) and four 30 min telephone interviews | · No essential safety-critical issues raised for this stage of training |
6. | August 2011 | 24 GP Educational Supervisors, Renfrewshire, UK | · Final validation of checklist Domains and Items | · Completion of a Content Validity Index (CVI) | · Final agreement on a Checklist comprising 14 Domains and 47 related Items. |