Contact: Myriam Dell Olio
Funding: Hull University PhD Cluster Funding
Myriam’s PhD is a qualitative study examining the changing face of primary care and its impact on people living with long-term conditions and multi-morbidity. Myriam’s work is defining the conceptual underpinnings of person-centred care, and considering the knowledge work for patient and professional alike.
Her systematic review informing this work was recently published in the European Journal for Person-Centred Care – a paper for which she was awarded the 2020 ESPCH Qualitative Research prize.
Contact: Dr Aarti Bansal
Funding: NIHR In Practice Fellowship
Dr Bansal's work takes a fresh look at the pedagogical questions involved in developing person-centredness in medical students and doctors. Person-centred care is considered central to the delivery of high-quality medical care and yet evidence points to an erosion of person-centredness in medical students as they progress through training. This is despite well-established consultation skills training in medical education based on a person-centred framework.
Dr Bansal's research is based on the hypothesis that there may be a gap in the current educational strategy for person-centred practice which focusses on the skills of person-centred practice without always orientating medical students and doctors to the underpinning theory, concepts and evidence. She is undertaking a realist review of the literature on person-centred educational interventions to understand how, why, and in which contexts educational interventions work to support the development of person-centredness.
Contact: Professor Joanne Reeve
The WISE GP Programme was established to help tell a new story of building a career in General Practice underpinned by clinical scholarship. It arises from a partnership between the Society for Academic Primary Care and the Royal College of General Practitioners, and is led by Joanne Reeve.
WISE GP focuses on the knowledge work of everyday practice in primary healthcare: the tasks of finding, generating and using knowledge that are an integral part of everyday clinical practice. Clinicians work with knowledge when they make decisions with patients, undertake quality improvement activities, and engage with teaching, learning, research and leadership.
But clinicians describe a number of barriers to knowledge work in everyday practice. WISE GP was established to tackle those barriers.
The Academy of Primary Care is a lead partner in this important national initiative.
Contact: Professor Joanne Reeve and Dr Puja Verma
The Academy hosts an Academic Clinical Training Programme for GPs, along with an extended scholarship programme linked to the national WISE GP programme. This is known as the WISE Academy.
WISE Academy was established to support local GPs and GP trainees interested in extended training and career development opportunities. Our goal is to support development of scholarship skills for clinical practice, portfolio GP careers and/or university-based academic careers.
The group includes GPs on formal Academic Clinical Training programmes including NIHR Academic Foundation, Academic Clinical Fellowships, Doctoral Fellows, and In Practice Fellowships. We also welcome GPs on a range of fellowships including leadership programmes and other local programmes. Our goal is to provide resource and support for GPs in the First 5, Last 5 and Middle 25 years of their career.
We are developing a programme of masterclasses, peer support and mentorship for GPs across our region.
For more information on how we are working to support GP careers, please contact Puja or Joanne.
Contacts: Dr Puja Verma, Dr James Bennett, Professor Joanne Reeve
Funding: In preparation
The Catalyst programme is a novel professional development programme designed to support changing education and workforce needs across the primary care workforce.
We are working in partnership with the regional Primary Care Board to develop, deliver and evaluate novel, research-led educational interventions to address the changing professional development needs of GPs across our community.
Our initial work supports New to Practice (First 5) GPs develop the extended skills in clinical scholarship needed to tackle modern challenges associated with multimorbidity and problematic polypharmacy. A second programme will focus on the extended skills needed for portfolio development for mid-career (Middle 25) GPs.
In conjunction with partners from across the Northern network of the Society for Academic Primary Care, and as part of our involvement with the NIHR Quality Safety and Outcomes Policy Research Unit, we are developing innovative work to evaluate the knowledge work of clinical practice.