Congratulations to all the winners of tutors prizes at the 2023 Annual Teachers Conference. Below you can read feedback from students placed with each of the winners:
Teaching Excellence Award: Dr Fatin Karam, Fairfield Medical Centre, Liverpool
Dr Fatin Karam has been the most wonderful GP Tutor throughout my GP placement and is an excellent educator. She was encouraging in giving me responsibility to run my own clinics, take histories and document, perform examinations, develop a management plan and eventually debrief with her about each and every case. She would take a lot of time and effort to ensure that my learning was of utmost importance, I definitely noticed an improvement in my skills.
Overall, Fairfield Medical Centre is an incredible GP surgery and students who are placed here will have a fantastic learning experience in a highly supportive, friendly environment. I could not recommend it more highly.
Supporting the Student Experience Practice Award: Cardiff Bay Surgery
I was lucky to have had great teaching and the opportunity to consult independently. The teaching provided during the placement wasn’t as a formal session, but more opportunistic, thorough discussion of the cases after I had seen patients with a certain presentation. The GPs supervising me made sure to provide a wide range of presentations to expose me to. The practice has a more relaxed family feel to it, and they made sure to make me feel part of it.. All in all, this placement has confirmed that I do really like GP as a career and further motivated me to pursue this in future. I would love to work in a practice like this one. All the other practice staff were very nice and friendly, special mentions to Abeeda, the practice manager and the pharmacist.
Supporting the Student Experience Practice Award: The Village Practice, Islington
The team at The Village Practice were absolutely wonderful to learn under, and it was a huge privilege to have undertaken a placement in this practice. They paid particular attention to both the academic and wellbeing needs of us students, and worked hand-in-hand to ensure that we were obtaining our sign-offs but also encountering patients who would give us the best opportunity to learn to make us great future clinicians.
They provided us with amazing teaching opportunities, particularly by Dr. Ardavan Algooneh. His clinical teaching sessions were thorough and he used great techniques to reinforce our learning.
Special mention also to Sammie Hubbard, Dr. Richard Ma and Dr. Robbie Howell – they were essential in making this the wonderful clinical placement that it was. I envy students who get the chance to have their MICA placements there in the future
Supporting the Student Experience Award: Dr Jack Roberts, Richford Gate Medical Practice
Dr Jack Roberts is an amazing GP tutor. He is the best teacher I have had on placement in medical school. The highlight of this placement for me was the Tuesday afternoon tutorials where we covered history-taking and physical examination on a specific topic. Dr. Roberts kept the sessions interesting by acting as a patient himself for the history-taking part. Not only was his acting convincing, but the feedback and tutorial that followed were extremely helpful in developing our history-taking skills and clinical knowledge. My placement partner and I both agree that this has been the most fulfilling and enriching placement we have been on.
Supporting the Student Experience Practice Award: Wood Lane Medical Centre
The GPs did an amazing job integrating us into the practice and teaching us whilst we went through consultations. Dr Khawaja, Dr Merali and Dr Bhadye invested so much time and energy into us to make our placement as enjoyable and useful as possible. Any medical student in the future would greatly benefit from a placement at Wood Lane Medical Centre, it was truly exceptional!
All our GP tutors, namely Dr Khawaja, Dr Bhadye and Dr Merali were amazing and made huge efforts to support us in our learning. We were encouraged to attend home visits, run our own clinics and take the lead on examinations, all of which has exponentially improved my knowledge, this is down to these three doctors creating an incredible learning environment for us.
Outstanding contribution to teaching nominations: Dr Shuman Hussein, Stanhope Mews West Surgery
Dr Shuman Hussein has been a GP tutor and PACES examiner for many years He has also assisted in taking on remedial placements/ and supporting students with additional needs particularly during the pandemic. Dr Neepa Thacker
I am extremely grateful to have been placed in this GP surgery, it was one of the very best placements I have had so far in medical school.
I gained lots of practice in independent consulting, confidence in my clinical knowledge/history taking/examinations skills, greater awareness of what happens in primary care (not just during consultations, but between them, including administrative tasks)
I truly felt like I was part of the team. Even though I was the only medical student at the practice, I never felt alone – I was extremely supported and always invited to partake in any events
In particular, I want to thank Dr Hussein, my GP tutor/supervisor….and Dr Victoria Taylor.
The team was very caring and kind. They all were keen to help us learn and teach us about the cases that were quite different.
It was a lovely experience with great learning opportunities and practice for clinical medicine and felt supported.