Student Selected Component Transitional Year
Students are attached to a practice for three weeks and explore how to do part of a quality improvement project by choosing a primary care service area, exploring the background, considering how to measure quality of this aspect of our service, collecting and reviewing data (generally from the electronic patient record), and create a poster showing their results.
There is direction and support for tutors, and practices find the student work valuable support for their quality improvement work
Student Selected Component Final Year 'Leadership and Management in Primary Care'
For general practice in 23/24 , we are piloting SSCF 'Leadership and Management in Primary Care'. : This is a non-clinical immersion in the leadership and management skills required for delivering primary care services. It is anticipated students will spend time with managers and clinical leaders, and include some quality improvement work.
The aims of the placement are:
- for the student to reflect on their current leadership competencies and develop a plan to develop these further during the attachment
- to investigate how primary care providers strategically respond to National and Local health strategic plans
- to investigate how primary care providers interface with users from clinical care to quality improvement, compliments and complaints
- to critically evaluate how primary care providers use human and fiscal resources for the delivery of high quality, safe and efficient primary care.
Student Selected Component Final Year 'Clinical attachment'
This is a five-week clinical block which students can choose to spend in a clinical environment they are interested in. As all students are timetabled for a primary care attachment in Final Year, few students choose to do an additional five weeks; but if they do, we will ask our teaching practices if they are interested in having the student placed with them.
We would love to hear from you if you and your practice is interested in teaching for our fabulous students and St George's, University of London. Please email your details to PrimaryCareEduc@sgul.ac.uk and we will contact you.
Details of tutor involvement and pay are here.
iBSc Module
This module will focus on the diversity and complexity of primary care in the UK Health system. It demonstrates the delivery of health care in the community from cradle to grave considering the role of the GP and multidisciplinary team, population health and the political and policy-based context of health care.
The module will provide an opportunity to learn from GPs and health practitioners with a wide range of expertise. Undertaking this module will introduce students to the breadth of primary health care, the demands on the service and the future direction of care. It will include clinical content as portrayed through case presentations, patient and doctor narratives and contemporary and historical literature. It will provide the opportunity to develop critical reading skills while considering the scope of general practice as an academic discipline.
The module aims to provide a stimulating learning environment for students to explore:
- the concepts of diversity and complexity in primary care within the context of the life course
- the practice of primary care through case presentation, clinical research, medical humanities literature and patient narrative
- an overview of current and future models of and demands on, UK primary healthcare services.
This taught module is delivered wholly by the primary care education group and is run by Dr Nicola Buxton and Emma Metters.