Provision of medical student teaching in UK general practices: a cross-sectional questionnaire study

Harding, Alex; Rosenthal, Joe; Al-Seaidy, Marwa; Gray, Denis Pereira; McKinley, Robert K

doi:10.3399/bjgp15x685321

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“…Some medical schools deny the discipline of general practice by not teaching its theory systematically or examining general practice enough. The SAPC survey 18 found some medical schools allocating <4% of their teaching budget to general practice. Is Government getting value when paying medical schools about £30 000 per medical student, when these institutions are not producing the doctors the nation needs?…”

Section: University General Practice/primary Carementioning

confidence: 99%

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Academic general practice: a viewpoint on achievements and challenges

Gray

2015

Br J Gen Pract

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“…They have halved in 10 years. 18 They need support to promote generalist identity with stronger staffing with academically-qualified, clinically-respected, generalist doctors, nurses, and social scientists.…”

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Academic general practice: a viewpoint on achievements and challenges

Gray

2015

Br J Gen Pract

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“…[1] Several influential documents including the Mackenzie report [2] and Tomorrow's Doctors [3,4] have highlighted the need for increased teaching outside hospital and have influenced the shift from ad hoc to more structured primary care teaching. A recent survey of UK medical schools [5] demonstrated that all schools have a department of primary care and teach some primary care but this…”

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Medical undergraduate primary care teaching across the UK: what is being taught?

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Blythe

2016

Education for Primary Care

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Background: All UK medical schools use primary care settings to deliver their undergraduate courses. However there is no national undergraduate curriculum for primary care and it is thought that the learning objectives of primary care teaching vary considerably between medical schools. Aim: The overall aim was to establish what is being taught within and by primary care across UK medical schools. We did this by collating learning objectives from the primary care department at each school. In order to categorise and compare the list of learning objectives from each school we mapped the learning objectives to the postgraduate curriculum of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Design and setting: Cross sectional survey sent to heads of teaching of primary care at all 32 UK medical schools. Method: GP teacher handbooks for primary care modules at each medical school were requested. Information was extracted based on key headings from the RCGP postgraduate curriculum. Results: Topics taught by primary care at all medical schools include: consulting and communication skills, leading and working in teams, and developing yourself and others. Novel topics, taught at a few medical schools include: learning disability, genetics and multimorbidity. The majority of medical schools address aspects of over half of the RCGP postgraduate curriculum headings in their learning objectives for primary care. Conclusion: This project provides valuable information about primary care teaching at an undergraduate level across the UK. Although it confirms widespread variation in learning objectives, it also highlights considerable common ground and opportunities for sharing teaching resources between schools.

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“…3 Yet, following a steady increase over the past 20 years, the percentage of teaching in general practice in UK medical schools has plateaued (mean 13%) since 2008 and the average amount of clinical contact in general practice settings has decreased overall. 4 Capacity for undergraduate general practice placements is now a serious challenge for many medical schools with practices facing competing demands from service and expansion of postgraduate training activity. Postgraduate trainees are often viewed as 'better value' in terms of service, causing some practices to choose postgraduate training over undergraduate teaching.…”

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How can medical schools encourage students to choose general practice as a career?

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Provision of medical student teaching in UK general practices: a cross-sectional questionnaire study

Cited by 43 publications

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Academic general practice: a viewpoint on achievements and challenges

Academic general practice: a viewpoint on achievements and challenges

Medical undergraduate primary care teaching across the UK: what is being taught?

How can medical schools encourage students to choose general practice as a career?

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