GP Placement Capacity Symposium: A search for solutions to the GP placement capacity crisis-12th June 2024
Many thanks to those who presented and attended the on-line symposium on 12th June 2024.
We hope the following resources from the event may be helpful.
Presentation session 1: Innovation within placement organization and structure
Presentation 1
Title: Student and Educator Experiences of a Student-Led Clinic (SLC) in General Practice
Presenter: Dr Kevin McConville- Head of Undergraduate General Practice, Dundee (k.mcconville@dundee.ac.uk)
Presentation 2
Title: Recruiting sessional GPs to teach medical students in vacant spaces
Presenter: Dr Tom Fairfax- Deputy Head of Undergraduate GP Teaching, University of Sunderland (thomas.fairfax@sunderland.ac.uk)
Presentation 3
Title of presentation: Establishing an Independent GP Placement (IPs) programme
Presenters: Max Cooper- Senior Lecturer in GP, Brighton and Sussex Medical School (m.cooper@bsms.ac.uk); Carl Fernandes- Senior Teaching Fellow, Brighton and Sussex Medical School; and Heidi Swain- Placements Coordinator, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Themed presentation session 2: Innovation within teaching, learning and supervision
Presentation 1
Title of presentation: Changing the status quo? A nurse practitioner led, frailty-focussed clerkship for fourth year medical students using a GP practice as a patient ‘donor site’
Presenter: Dr Aastha Agarwal- F1 Doctor, Newcastle Hospitals (a.agarwal3@nhs.net)
Presentation 2
Title of presentation: Using GP trainees as teachers to enhance teaching capacity
Presenter: Dr Hugh Alberti- Professor of GP education and sub-dean for primary and community care, Newcastle University (hugh.alberti@newcastle.ac.uk)
Presentation 3
Title of presentation: GP Remote Consulting Hybrid Pilot
Presenters: Dr Duncan Rogers and Dr KJ Harrison- School of Medicine, University of Liverpool (duncan.rogers@liverpool.ac.uk; docthark@liverpool.ac.uk)
Presentation 4
Title of presentation: OOH Primary Care Placements: experiences of our pilot (SGUL)
Presenter: Dr Roaa Al-bedaery- Clinical Teaching Fellow and GP, St George’s University of London (rel-beda@sgul.ac.uk)
Presentation session 3
Presentation 1
Title of presentation: From the doorstep to the ministerial floor via parliament: engaging your M(S)P on the challenges facing UG GP education
Presenter: Dr Neil Gallacher- Year 6 GP Module Organiser, University of Edinburgh Medical School (neil.gallacher@ed.ac.uk)
Presentation 2
Title of presentation: Early findings of undergraduate GP placement survey
Presenters: Dr KJ Harrison- School of Medicine, University of Liverpool (docthark@liverpool.ac.uk); Dr Will Spiring, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education (Primary Care & Community), UCL (w.spiring@ucl.ac.uk).
Presentation 3
Title of presentation: Can smart glasses and other virtual tech help us create extra capacity?
Presenter: Dr Helen Rodgers, Community Placement Lead (Devon), University of Exeter Medical School (h.k.rogers@exeter.ac.uk)
Thanks to all those who presents. If you have any further queries, please e-mail: Mike.harrison@newcastle.ac.uk
SAPC Northern Medical Schools Educational Symposium- June 8th 2022
Click on the links below to view the session recordings:
Highlights from SAPC North medical schools
Service learning in placements and projects – increasing the impact of students time
Directions in undergraduate GP placements- an exciting future?
Making it core- educating for sustainable healthcare and planetary health
Allied health care practitioners’ role in medical student education
Innovation in a pandemic: learning remote consulting skills in General Practice
SAPC North 1oth November 2022 https://sapc.ac.uk/conference/2021sapcnorth
ASM 6th-8th July 2022 https://www.asme.org.uk/events/asm2022