The purpose of the general practice placement in Year 3 is to help you develop fluency in history taking and examining patients whilst maintaining patient-centeredness and compassion.  It will also develop your understanding of health equity.  

You will also expand your understanding of health equity through patient contact and completing the health equity e-modules. This aspect of the GP3 module explores the social and environmental factors that shape health, and what actions could be taken to address them.  It also links to the GPCD module which you do in January. 

• Meet, consult, and examine patients and receive feedback 

• Develop understanding of the generalist nature of primary care, the lived experience of GPs and the kinds of patient presentations and consultations seen there.

• Explore the concept of compassionate practice, collaboratively, reflectively, creatively. 

• Cover the GP3 presentations and conditions which you will be assessed on.

• Understand the social and environmental factors that shape health.

Structure - a placement day is least 6 hours long.  Practices may design their own timetables of: when students are onsite consulting with patients and when there will be group tutorials according to the needs of the practice, patients and students. The emphasis should be on students seeing patients.

The placement activities you engage in should follow the GP3 presentations and conditions which you will be tested on in the summer exams. You can access this here. 

The Student Learning agreement can be found  here

You should have an individual, mid-placement one-to-one 'check-in' with your Lead GP Tutor. This is an opportunity for your GP Tutor to find out how the placement is going for you, and if you have any feedback that you would like to share with them. It is also an opportunity for your GP Tutor to give you feedback, if there are any attendance, clinical or professionalism issues, so that you have a chance to improve before the end of the placement. You will also be given the opportunity to feed back to the CBME GP3 team, should there be any issues arising in your placement. The GP3 team will review these, and follow up if needed. 

Kate Scurr (GP3 administrator) is your first port of call for any day to day queries regarding the GP3 module. 

Contact details: k.j.scurr@qmul.ac.uk 

Module Leads: 

Dr Safiya Virji: s.virji@qmul.ac.uk  

Dr Natalie Symes: n.symes@qmul.ac.uk  

There are  GP3 presentations and conditions that will be tested in Year 3 summer exams. Details can be accessed here. 

GP3 placement assessments:

• Group-based presentation to GP Tutor on compassion or generalism (with individual 500 word reflection)

• E-learning modules on health equity (x2) 

• Y3 GP3 Placement Sign Off Form (Placement Professionalism & Assessment  form) 

• Completion of student logbook 

Details on these 4 assessments are here. 

Term 1 (8-weeks)

W/c:  14-Oct-24,  21-Oct-24,  28-Oct-24,  04-Nov-24, 11-Nov-24,  18-Nov-24,  25-Nov-24,  02-Dec-24

Term 2 (8 weeks)

W/c:  27-Jan-25,  03-Feb-25,  10-Feb-25,  17-Feb-25,  24-Feb-25,  03-Mar-25,  10-Mar-25,  17-Mar-25

Term 3 (8 weeks)

W/c:   31-Mar-25, 07-Apr-25,  (Easter Break - no placements: w/c 14th April & w/c 21st April) 28-Apr-25, 05-May-25, 12-May-25, 19-May-25, 26-May-25, 02-Jun-25