GP3 Overview 2023-24

The purpose of 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. 

• 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 themes (including GP3 specific clinical 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 placement activities you engage in should follow the themes of the clinical conditions which you will be tested on in the summer exams. You can access this here. 

Learning agreement and suggested timetables here.

You should have a mid placement check in with your practice GP tutor and the opportunity to feedback anonymously to the GP3 team should there be any issues arising in your placement. The GP3 team will review these (and action if needed).

Kate Scurr (GP3 administrator) is your first port of call for any day to day queries regarding the newGP3 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 specific clinical conditions which you will be tested on in your summer exams. You can access this here.

GP3 placement assessments:

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

• E-learning modules (2 x health equity, 1 x nutrition)

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

• Completion of student logbook

Details on these 4 assessments are here. 

Term 1,

W/c 16-Oct-23, 23-Oct-23, 30-Oct-23, 06-Nov-23,13-Nov-23, 20-Nov-23, 27-Nov-23, 04-Dec-23 

Term 2,

W/c 29-Jan-24, 05-Feb-24, 12-Feb-24, 19-Feb-24, 26-Feb-24, 04-Mar-24, 11-Mar-24, 18-Mar-24

Term 3,

W/c 15-Apr-24, 22-Apr-24, 29-Apr-24, 06-May-24, 13-May-24, 20-May-24, 27-May-24, 03-Jun-24, 10-Jun-24 (9 weeks but each student will be there only 8 of these weeks, due to CCS2 teaching)