GPCD
- To The GP Community Diagnosis (GPCD) module explores the social and environmental factors that shape health, and what actions could be taken to address them.
- Each student will complete a GPCD project examining local public health data supplemented by student fieldwork focusing on a local community health or social need.
- Appreciation of the social and environmental determinants of health, health inequalities and health inequities.
- Use population sources of health data, interviews and observations of a locality to investigate the health and social care needs of a community.
- Focus on a specific topic to identify major risk factors, including environmental and social factors that might contribute to unequal health outcomes in a community, and suggest actions to address this.
- Make a 5-7 minute presentation to colleagues to discuss your findings.
Facilitate online tutorials (90 minutes each) for 1, 2 or 3 weeks on a Monday afternoon and Friday afternoon, during 3 weeks in January 2025 (w/c 6th, 13th and 20th January 2025).
Each week that you are teaching, you will have 2 small groups of students (4-5 students per group) on MS Teams:
- Monday tutorials: discuss student projects
- Friday tutorials: students present their project
- Attend online GP Preparation & Tutor training, and Q&A session (1.5 hour)
- Preference will be given to tutors who are able to teach across all 3 weeks and to tutors with a passion for teaching about the social and environmental determinants of health.
Students are assessed on their attendance at tutorial and their GPCD presentations.
- £560 per week for two groups of 4 - 5 students
- £1,680 for delivering teaching all the 3 weeks
GPCD Tutor Handbook 2025-26 [PDF 570KB]
QA Guidance for GP Placements 26-27.pdf [PDF 2,068KB]
QA Guidance for Uni Based GP Educators 26-27.pdf [PDF 1,884KB]
Unit convenors:
- Dr Agalya Ramanathan
a.ramanathan@qmul.ac.uk - Dr Dhrupadhreddy Yerrakalva
d.yerrakalva@qmul.ac.uk
GPCD Unit administrator:
- Mr Steven Duggan
steven.duggan@qmul.ac.uk