Day 1: Monday

Morning: 

• Introduction to the module (09:00 - 10:00): Bearsted Lecture Theatre, Basement, The Royal Dental Hospital (next to the Garrod Building, Building C on the Whitechapel campus map)

Live lecture outlining details of the module and how to conduct the GP Community Diagnosis project, ending with a live Q&A session with the GPCD co-leads.

• Mini-Lectures on aspects of social determinants of health (10:00 - 12:00): Bearsted Lecture Theatre, Basement, The Royal Dental Hospital (next to the Garrod Building)

• • Dr Camille Gajria: An Introduction to Health Equity (06/01/25)

  • Dr Jenny Blythe: Gambling (13/01/25 & 20/01/25).

  • Dr Dana Beale/ Dr Natalie Miller: Homelessness.

  • Dr Itunu Johnson: Ethnic health disparities.

  • Panel discussion with guest speakers and Q&A.

  • Bags of Taste: Nutrition and poverty (video recording)

• Preparatory planning for GPCD project: Students are asked to complete the preparatory work section below before attending the afternoon tutorial. They should be prepared to discuss ideas for their GPCD project in the afternoon tutorial.

Afternoon: 

• Small group tutorial (90 min) with GP tutor on MS Teams: (click here for more information on MS Teams for GPCD). Students will discuss their project plans/ideas with a tutor. The tutorial will help students define their project topic, discuss what observational and qualitative data to collect, what relevant PHE data is available and how to put their thoughts into action. Please ensure you have read and adhere to the Camera Policy.  Please discuss safety with the students in preparation for gathering data from the public.

Day 2: Tuesday

Morning: 

• Self-study and project work: Data collection and evaluation

Afternoon: 

• 1-hour (optional) LIVE drop-in session (13:30 - 14:30).  Please see FAQs below before attending drop-in session which may answer common questions.

  • Join the meeting

  • Meeting ID: 361 734 349 665

  • Passcode: rmnWBa

• Self-study and project work: Data collection and evaluation

Day 3: Wednesday

Morning: 

• Self-study and project work: Data evaluation and preparation of GPCD presentation

• 11.00-12.00: 1-hour (optional) LIVE drop-in session: Informal question and answer session for any queries. 

  • Join the meeting

  • Meeting ID: 357 064 851 939

  • Passcode: GjtqLo 

     Afternoon: 

• Half day sports release

Day 4: Thursday

Morning: 

• Self-study and project work: Data evaluation

Afternoon: 

• 1-hour (optional) LIVE drop-in session (13:30 - 14:30)

  • Join the meeting

  • Meeting ID: 361 734 349 665

  • Passcode: rmnWBa

• Self-study and project work: Data evaluation     

Day 5: Friday

     Morning: 

• Self-study and project work: Preparation of GPCD presentation

     Afternoon:

• Small group tutorial (90 min) with GP tutor on MS Teams: (click here for more information on MS Teams for GPCD). Each student will deliver a 5-6 minute presentation on their GPCD project (this forms part of the GPCD assessment and is mandatory to pass the module) followed by a brief discussion with the group.

  • JOT feedback form and evaluation of learning from the GPCD module.

  • Reminder to complete JISC feedback will be sent out on Thursday 23rd January 2025.

Please find the slides and recordings from the live GPCD module sessions:

Preparatory work for completion before Monday afternoon tutorial:

Please read how to conduct a community diagnosis project and complete the following tasks before the afternoon tutorial:

1.  Choose a community as your focus

2.  Familiarise yourself with using the Public Health England fingertips tool using this video and locate Local Authority Health Profiles

3.  Examine the public health data for this locality and come prepared to discuss this with the group (use PHE finger tips profiles and council ward data available online). 

4.  Access the fingertips PHE data for the borough and for England. What similarities and differences do you note? What do you note of interest and why? Click here on how to navigate the PHE fingertips site.

5.  Identify some health and social care needs for that community. What are the environmental and social factors that contribute to inequity?

6.  Identify what could be the scope of your CD project (i.e. what topic you will focus on).

7.  Brainstorm how you could explore this topic further (what further data you need to collect), consider what challenges you may encounter and how to overcome them.

Monday tutorial - Brainstorming and developing the GPCD project

Before this tutorial students should have read the GPCD study guide and listened to the lecture on how to conduct a GPCD project. 

Students have been asked to complete the preparatory work outlined below before attending this tutorial.

1. Choose a community as their focus (examples listed on page 5)

2. Examine the public health data for this locality and come prepared to discuss this with the group (use PHE finger tips profiles and council ward data available online).

Access the fingertips PHE data for the borough and for England. What similarities and differences do they note? What do they note of interest and why? 

3. Identify some health and social care needs for that community. What are the environmental and social factors that contribute to inequity?

4. Identify what could be the scope of their CD project (ie what topic they will focus on). 

5. Brainstorm how they could explore this topic further (what further data they need to collect), consider what challenges they may encounter and how to overcome them.

Monday tutorial outline:

1. Introductions and check-in.

2. Review learning objectives and questions arising from the lecture/ GPCD Guide. 

3. Exercise 1: Students to take it in turns to discuss the public health data for their chosen locality, what they identified as the health and social care needs and what they propose the scope/topic of their CD project should be. GP tutors may choose to also briefly discuss the public health data for their practice area and what they noticed. (20-25 mins).

4. Exercise 2: Gathering data – students to discuss and brainstorm where and how to collect the different sources of data (who would you interview and what would you ask, what observations could you make and how could you record these, what other data could you look at?).

Explore safety and consent issues.

You may decide to split the students in two group to discuss this exercise and then all come back together to review. (20-25 mins).

5. GPCD presentations and assessment – answer any questions from the students. Clarify that all students will be presenting individually, the presentations may be recorded and will be assessed. 

6.Contact details: Encourage the students to form what’s app/email discussion group to support each other. GP tutors can decide if they want to give their contact details to be a part of this group. There will also be optional on-line drop-in sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday where students can also raise questions with the module leads. 

Friday tutorial – GPCD presentations and assessment

Friday tutorial outline:

1. Introduction and check in. Review any additional learning needs students would like to address. 

2. Student presentations 

Each student must deliver their presentations individually. They may choose any format in which to deliver their presentation. 

Each 5-6 minute presentation to be followed by a few minutes discussion with questions posed by the GP tutor and group. 

3. Closure and feedback –

GP tutors to submit student marksheets online.