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Comment 17	I think it’s a good idea because when I give feedback to students it’s not recorded, I just say what I think and they nod away and they say thank you very much, that was useful, but it’s not recorded in any way…They can’t remember everything I say because it’s quite a lot. Tutor 3(H)
Comment 18	I haven’t even opened the GeCoS feedback emails because I sat down and did it with him so I knew exactly what he said. Student 4 (m) Focus Group B
Comment 19	If you do well in GeCoS it doesn’t seem to matter? And if you do badly what does it matter? What is the point of it then? Student 6 (m) Focus Group B
Comment 20	At the end of the day the tool provides a record and it’s great if the students have a record afterwards so they can go back and look at the points but that is a very small part of the interaction, the main part of the interaction is what goes on as you have that meeting. Tutor 2 (GP)
Comment 21	My GP in 3rd year didn’t tell me when he was doing them and I only found out afterwards and that could have been really bad but I found it really useful because he was really honest. At the time he had told me things, but (the written feedback) was really detailed because he had gone and done it in his own time. Student 5 (f) Focus Group A
Comment 22	Mine was really good. He did a GeCoS with my first consultation and then every GeCoS after that he referred back to it. Student 3 (f) Focus Group A
Comment 23	I think you always get better feedback if you’re not there. They can’t say the negative stuff when you are sat there. Student 2 (f) Focus Group B
Comment 24	There was one that I had erm, maybe it was a bit of a cop-out but he was quite tricky, quite difficult to talk with so I used the GeCoS feedback as a means of being a bit more direct in terms of some advice and feedback for him and then he came back to me on it and we had a much more open discussion about it. So in that sense it actually worked quite well ‘cause once it’s written down on paper he took a bit more notice of it. Tutor 7 (GP)
Comment 25	You feel that somewhere at the top there’s people collating data and they want you to fit into that box. Tutor 6 (GP)

Int J Med Educ. 2017; 8:207-216; doi: 10.5116/ijme.5910.dc69