A blended supervision model in Australian general practice training.

Background: The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' Standards for general practice training allow different models of registrar supervision, provided these models achieve the outcomes of facilitating registrars' learning and ensuring patient safety.

Objective: In this article, we describe a model of supervision called 'blended supervision', and its initial implementation and evaluation.

Discussion: The blended supervision model integrates offsite supervision with available local supervision resources. It is a pragmatic alternative to traditional supervision. Further evaluation of the cost-effectiveness, safety and effectiveness of this model is required, as is the recruitment and training of remote supervisors. A framework of questions was developed to outline the training practice's supervision methods and explain how blended supervision is achieving supervision and teaching outcomes. The supervision and teaching framework can be used to understand the supervision methods of all practices, not just practices using blended supervision.