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 […]
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 […]
Will virtual reality transform medical education?
Blog by Dr Jon Ferdinand, pictured above with fellow GP Associate Directors, Dr Madeleine Lameris (centre) and Dr Kinnary Martin. ASME 2018 Imagine being the first doctor at a cardiac arrest. I used to dread the thought. Despite having practiced numerous times on Resusci Anne (lifesize practice resuscitation doll for medical students and first aiders) […]
GP as a career? Dr John Benson and Cambridge medical students explain why they wouldn’t choose anything else
Watch this short film to discover what it’s like to study medicine at Cambridge and see why Cambridge medical students are considering GP as a career. Please share: the film is for science-minded young people who like the idea of becoming a GP and for medical students who are interested in GP as a career. […]
How my six week primary care SSC project led to my first-author paper in Cancer Epidemiology
Blog by Tessa Stewart, final year medical student, University of Cambridge It’s a common feeling amongst medical students that we cannot meaningfully contribute to patient care, due to our lack of knowledge and expertise. On 4 February, World Cancer Day, I felt that I contributed by publishing my first first-author paper in Cancer Epidemiology. This […]