Dr Robbie Duschinsky is a 2022 winner of the University of Cambridge’s highest teaching award, the Pilkington Prize. Robbie is Associate Professor of Social Sciences at the Primary Care Unit in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care, and Fellow and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College. Robbie was nominated for being a ‘passionate and […]
New research finds public enthusiastic about kidney cancer screening
In this guest blog, Laragh Harvey-Kelly, a final-year medical student at the University of Cambridge, explains her recently published work on public attitudes to kidney cancer screening. She undertook this research as part of a Student Selected Component supervised by Dr Juliet Usher-Smith. Kidney cancer is on the rise and is projected to increase over […]
Medical students based at home can be trusted to consult remotely with patients: qualitative evaluation of pilot at the University of Cambridge
Research by the University of Cambridge shows how medical students can engage in remote consultations and keep learning directly from patients even during the pandemic. Medical teachers can enable their students to successfully gain clinical experience even during lockdown periods, via supervised remote consultations with patients, according to a study carried out in June 2020 […]
Top tips for medical students starting clinical research
Follow Ben Paxton’s journey into clinical research for medical students in this blog. Read his five top tips for medical students who are exploring research opportunities. Ben is a medical student at the University of Cambridge. When it came to choosing a Student Selected Component (SSC) at the start of clinical school in year […]
Congratulations to prize-winners at SAPC SE conference!
Prize-winners for outstanding presentations and posters at the SAPC SE conference at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, 23 and 24 January 2020, organised by the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge SAPC winner Liza Kirtchuk (KCL): ‘The Medical School as Multiple Communities of Practice: analysis of a longitudinal GP clerkship’. SAPC runners-up Gwilym Thomas (University of Cambridge): […]
What’s it like teaching medical students in primary care? watch our new video to find out
Medical students at the University of Cambridge gain much of their clinical experience during their GP placements, where they are taught and supervised in pairs or very small groups by GP tutors – who are part of a community of practice spanning the whole of East Anglia. Our students now number around 1800 in total […]
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