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Teaching

The surgery is a teaching practice and linked to the Lister Hospital Vocational Training Scheme for GPs. Dr Caroline Russell has been a trainer since 1995 and Dr Simon Blake has recently become an associate trainer, although the whole surgery is committed to teaching and maintaining the high standards needed to be a teaching practice.

We regularly have a doctor with us for their last year as a GP registrar before qualifying to be a GP principal and we sometimes have medical students from University College Hospital. In addition, we now have Foundation 2 (F2) doctors who are regularly with us for four months at a time. These are doctors in their second year after qualification. Some will want to continue in general practice but others will be gaining valuable experience before entering another specialism.

We find it a very stimulating and rewarding exercise to be involved in training our future GPs, many of whom stay within the area. We hope that our patients will be able to appreciate the benefits, but we fully understand that it may not always be appropriate for a student to be present during a consultation and it is of course always your right to be seen alone.

To find out about our current trainees, see the news section.