The tutor training session for Year 3 took place on Wednesday 27th August 2025 at 2pm. The session recording and ppt are and available here.

Year 3 GP Tutor Update

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In academic year 25-26 students will have 12 Wednesday mornings in a GP practice in either semester 1 or 2. Students will be in groups of 6, and you will have the same students for the 12 sessions. The students will be spending the rest of the week in a hospital in the same Trust area. £355 per session - 12 sessions each semester - £4,260 per term.

 You can find lots of useful information in the Year 3 GP Tutor Student Guide 2025-26

The students will have access to Virtual Primary care. You can find information on how to login to the website in the document below.

VPC information for students You need a QUB email account to access the resources.

Here is the VPC Capsule Speaking Clinically guide with accompanying resources that the students can use

Home Visiting Guidance for practices PDF

What worked well from Tutors (all feedback from Spring 2025) 

• Seeing patients and mid/post consultations discussions. 
• Hot desking  
• Face to face consultations with patients 
• Hot seating, treatment room, running BP clinic 
• Speaking to a prearranged patient, doing audit, taking bloods. 
• Visiting a patient in their own home or a Nursing Home 
• Patient face to face consultations, medication counselling with PBP 
• Seeing patients in clinic 
• Consulting with patients and presenting cases/getting feedback 
• Clinical contact with patients  - sitting in with GP during surgeries 
• Overall, for students and tutors alike most useful activities are the times sitting in with GP and getting direct patient contact. This year, we involved the students with a Covid spring booster clinic which they all really enjoyed. 
• Protected student led consultations (hot seating) with direct GP supervision. 
• Taking histories and examining patients, both supervised and unsupervised. 
• Hot seating, blood taking, ECG. 

For more information or enquiries please email the Year 3 GP Academic Lead, Dr Nick Gardner - n.gardner@qub.ac.uk