Date: Wednesday 04 June 2025
Time: 09:30 - 16:30
Location:
City St George’s (Tooting campus),
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About the conference
Join our inaugural conference featuring keynote presentations, plenary sessions, and a selection of workshops. This event offers a valuable opportunity to explore advancements in primary care education and connect with colleagues in the field.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided on the day.
Keynotes and plenaries
Professor Hugh Alberti, Newcastle University
"The past, present and future of primary care education."
Professor Hugh Alberti is professor of general practice education in the School of Medicine at Newcastle University. He is head of GP teaching and leads the team of GP lecturers across the regional medical school. He has developed a 20-strong GP educational research group consisting of research fellows, teaching fellows and academic GP trainees. His research focuses on all aspect of undergraduate medical teaching including career choice influences, patient involvement, national surveys and studies on role-modelling, sustainable healthcare teaching and remote consulting. He has also been influential in implementing and researching the largest LIC (longitudinal integrated clerkship/placement) in the world.
Professor Graham Easton, Queen Mary University London
"Using stories to make your teaching even more effective: the why and the how."
Graham Easton is an academic GP, Honorary Professor of Clinical Communication at Queen Mary University of London, and 2024 National Teaching Fellow. For many years he was a Senior Producer (and presenter of Radio 4's medical flagship programme Case Notes) in the BBC Science Unit, where he was trained in the art and science of storytelling for communication. He was acting head of undergraduate GP teaching, and then a Programme Director for GP specialty training at Imperial College, and his doctoral research at the Institute of Education explored how lecturers use stories in medical teaching. He has written or edited several books, including The Appointment - the story of a morning surgery told from inside the mind of a GP - which was selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club.
Primary Care Education Team, City St George's
“Broadening primary care” – innovative approaches to primary care teaching"
Workshops
| Morning, 11:30 - 12:30 |
Afternoon, 14:25 - 15:25 |
| "Flourishing in Healthcare"- Dr Jeyapragash Jeyapala and Elle Tallgren |
"How will the Medical Licensing Assessment influence assessments and teaching?" - Mr Kevin Hayes and Dr Saima Shah |
| "How to teach clinical reasoning on placements" – Professor Simon Gay |
"What do students want from GP tutors? How to make placements rock" - Dr Simon Thornton |
| "How to conduct and teach about research in primary care" - workshop delivered by PACT (Primary Care Academic Collaborative) - Dr Stephen Woolford |
"Patient involvement on a shoestring: How to partner with patients when time and resources are tight" – Ms Katie Campion and Evi Machova. |
Keynotes and plenaries
Price
The Conference is free to all GP Tutors currently teaching or interested in teaching for City St Georges
£75,00 for all other attendees.
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