Dr Rebecca Ward won the ‘Best Oral Abstract’ award for her presentation at the National Primary Care Academic Clinical Fellow Conference on 12/13 April 2018. The conference brought together academic GP trainees, their supervisors, programme leads and the wider academic primary care community. Becky is a Cambridge GP VTS trainee completing an NIHR funded Academic […]
PCU Profile: Dr Becky Ward is a GP Registrar and Academic Clinical Fellow
Becky Ward joined the Cambridge Primary Care Unit in August 2017 as an ST1 Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF). This means that she’s in her first year as a GP Registrar with dedicated time to pursue research interests. Becky’s ACF programme is four years in total including the year she will spend studying for the MPhil […]
All risks are equal, but some risks are (apparently) more equal than others…
by Dr Collette Isabel Stadler, Academic Clinical Fellow at the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge and GP Registrar Last month, The Pulse journal published alarming figures obtained from 15 mental health trusts in the UK, revealing how access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is becoming increasingly restricted. In 2015, only […]
The spectrum effect in tests for risk prediction, screening, and diagnosis
The importance of the spectrum effect Much of clinical practice relies on tests measuring one or more characteristics of an individual to determine whether that individual is at risk of developing a condition of interest or does or does not have a particular disease. Many scientists and clinicians are engaged in developing and/or choosing whether […]