First year medical students associate GP careers with favourable working hours and flexibility but not with academic or research opportunities, according to a University of Cambridge study of 483 students at three medical schools, published in BJGP Open. The study was an electronic survey of students beginning their six year courses at three East Anglian […]
SAPC award for Cambridge medical student, Rachel Fox
Rachel Fox, who is studying medicine at the University of Cambridge, won the Novice Presenters prize at the Society for Academic Primary Care’s Madingley Hall conference on 24th January 2019. She explained that the presentation, titled “The views of women with gestational diabetes on post-partum screening for type 2 diabetes: the role of concern about […]
A medical student’s journey through academic primary care
Rachel Fox, medical student in her fourth year at the University of Cambridge Clinical School, describes her experiences exploring academic primary care and explains how medical students can get involved. Rachel was awarded the Novice Presenters prize at the Society for Academic Primary Care conference in January 2019. “Hi, my name is Rachel Fox and […]
Exploring the Future of General Practice: five Cambridge medical students consider their career options
Coming face to face with over one thousand GPs and presenting your research at the biggest GP conference in the UK is one way to find out more about GP as a career path. The GP Education Group (GPEG) supported five students to attend the Royal College of General Practitioners Annual Conference in October 2017. […]