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 […]
Medical education: making the most of remote consulting in primary care
The rapid expansion of remote consulting in primary care, after the pandemic struck in the UK in 2020, changed the experience of medical education, both for the GP tutors and for medical students in primary care placements. What can be done to protect and enhance the educational value of primary care placements in the post-COVID […]
Developing training and opportunities in systematic reviews for medical students
A training course on conducting systematic reviews, established for University of Cambridge medical students in 2018, provides a blueprint for medical schools that wish to offer similar training. The course has successfully provided the Cambridge students with the knowledge and skills they need to conduct systematic reviews, alongside opportunities to work with researchers on ongoing […]
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 […]