Dr Zoe Needham and Dr Nirshanthan Nagarajah are both practising GPs and medical educators. They joined the GP Education Group (GPEG), which is based at the Primary Care Unit, at the end of 2022. Dr Needham leads GP teaching for Year 6 medical students and Dr Nagarajah leads GP teaching for year 5 students. They […]
GP perspectives on supervising medical students remotely vary across GP teaching practices in the east of England
Dr Richard Darnton discusses his latest research, published in Medical Teacher, January 2023. UK medical students spend much of their training based in primary care centres undertaking consultations with patients under the watchful eye of a supervising doctor. The advent of COVID-19 triggered a huge increase in the proportion of doctor-patient consultations occurring remotely (via […]
Shortage of premises space in primary care threatens GP capacity to teach medical students
GPs say shortage of space in their premises threatens their ability to teach medical students. Medical student placements in general practice are vital for the future of the primary care workforce but pressure on premises space in GP surgeries is affecting GP teaching capacity, according to research on the scale of the challenges facing GPs […]
Dr Richard Darnton awarded Principal Fellow status at the Higher Education Academy
Dr Richard Darnton, Director of GP Education at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded Principal Fellow status at the Higher Education Academy (now at Advance HE). This is the Academy’s highest level of recognition, awarded to recognise the impact of education leaders who are improving teaching and strengthening the higher education environment. Richard Darnton took […]
Disruptive Innovation: Medical Education since COVID-19
The General Practice Education Group (GPEG) annual conference, called Disruptive Innovation: Medical Education since COVID-19, brought 200 GP tutors together at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile on 17th May 2022. Each year, our GP Tutors teach Cambridge medical students in primary care settings, working in 180 practices right across the East of England. GP teaching is integral […]
Exploring the emotional burden of clinical supervision
What’s it like to be a clinical supervisor – responsible for doctors in training – who gradually comes to the realisation that one of your trainees needs to be failed? How would you feel? Would the system support you? In a newly published commentary in Medical Education, University of Cambridge researchers Riikka Hofmann and Richard Darnton […]
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