Student Feedback: Year 3 GP
James Lambert
Year 3 MBBS
What’s coming up?
• What makes students unhappy?
• What makes students happy?
• Summary
• Quotes from Year 3 GP Autumn 2013
What makes students unhappy?
• Most issues are logistics-related
• Overcrowding (>2:1)
• Patient fatigue/rehearsal
• On the whole, students are happy – brilliant!
What makes students happy?
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… Introduction
• “We were met and introduced to the practice well …
we felt at home and comfortable”
• Access to staff facilities
• Aims for the placement
… Histories
• “We had teaching sessions … about a certain
condition and the doctors had organised patients to
come and see us with the condition so that we could
take a history, formulate management plans and
practice presenting … this placement has been my
best GP placement to date”
… Skills
• “The chance to clerk patients every week
significantly enabled me to improve my history
taking and examination skills”
• “GP was very good at teaching both with clinical
knowledge, but also with communication skills”
… Feedback
• “Each doctor gave feedback after each history and
examination, and at the end of the week individual
feedback was given”
• “Doctor was able to … give more comprehensive
feedback which otherwise we wouldn't normally get
in an acute hospital setting”
… Relevance
• “Focused teaching on topics relevant to met3a”
• “Clinical teaching was useful for consolidating
knowledge … however the insight into the ethical,
legal, clinical and interdisciplinary dilemmas which
face GPs was extremely useful”
… Logbook
• “Was difficult filling out the 4 histories in the GP
section of the logbook”
• “The tutor was aware of our student needs including
signing off in our log books”
… Extra work
• “He also provided us with extra homework … which
has been extremely useful”
• “It was good that we were always asked to go away
and do set work before the next session”
… Different staff
• “Morning with the district nurses was really good”
• “Able to see how different GPs work differently”
… Other bits
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Flu jabs
Longer consultations with students present
Emergency list
Use of Haikus for reflection
Summary sessions
Summary
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A good introduction
Chance to practice history-taking and examinations
Relevant and refreshing topics
Regular feedback
Variation
Thank you
Any questions?
j.lambert@smd11.qmul.ac.uk