Jump to comment:
- Page navigation anchor for The academic triad in general practiceThe academic triad in general practice
Reilly et al.’s article (May issue;1) on GP scholarship is important and we warmly support it. They rightly state that academic general practice should be “integrated and accessible to grass roots GPs”. Secondary care has long had its teaching hospitals and long trumpeted the academic triad of good service for patients, teaching and research all in the same place. GPs should seek to replicate this triad.
We report that our practice obtained the Investors in People award and has been twice rated outstanding by the CQC. For educational development, since 1987, seven different GP managing partners have received higher university degrees. A nurse practitioner and an attached midwife obtained master’s degrees and an attached district nurse a BSc. A medical student won the Quintiles prize for women in science while at the practice. In a typical year, over 40 medical students receive teaching in the practice.
There is a designated research room for research designed and conducted within the practice and for ten years running the practice has employed three successive postdoctoral research fellows. There have been 22 practice-based publications in peer-reviewed medical journals, as well as 4 in educational and policy publications, in the last 5 years. Our systematic review2 of continuity of doctor care and mortality in BMJ Open in 2018, was designed and conducted entirely within the practice, involved two med...
Competing Interests: None declared.