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 […]
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 […]
Medical students think GP careers mean favourable work hours but not academic opportunities
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 […]
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 […]
GPEG welcomes Dr Richard Darnton, new Director of GP Studies for the Clinical School
Dr Richard Darnton, GP and newly arrived Director of Studies in General Practice at the General Practice Education Group (GPEG), describes his passion for medical education and his ambitions for GP teaching at Cambridge. Tell us a little about your career so far? In my teens I was on course to follow my sister to […]