Years 1 and 2
These pages are for GP teachers. If you are interested in studying medicine at Bristol, please see details of our MB ChB Medicine course.
Teaching in Year 1 and Year 2 are on both on a Thursday, but they are never on the same dates. This is so that GP tutors can teach both year groups if they wish to do a regular teaching session across the year. To help make this easier for you, we have designed an Early Years Teaching Package. All dates for the current academic year can be found in our CAPC Teaching brochure 2023-24 (PDF, 2,056kB)
Primary Care placements form part of a course called Effective Consulting which explores clinical reasoning, clinical communication and clinical skills. Effective Consulting is integrated into student’s case-based learning cycles (these are fortnightly cycles covering Health and Wellbeing in Year 1, and systems and symptoms in Year 2).
In Years 1 and 2 students go to BNSSG and central Bath practices. A session is three hours long. Students should meet patients in surgery and at home, observe consultations, and practice gathering clinical information through history, examination and understanding investigations, relevant to the case and consulting skill they are studying. Students alternate their visits to primary care with visits to the hospital environment. You need to give feedback during the session and individually at the end of the last session. You can have a group of four or six students.
More about Year 1
In Year 1, students have a total of seven or eight sessions in a practice. In October/November, students attend fortnightly on four occasions as part of an introductory course called Foundations of Medicine which introduces them to the healthcare environment and talking with patients and clinicians. The students then come out to practices three or four more times across the year and will focus on a different case and consultation skill each time.
More about Year 2
In Year 2 there are a total of five or six sessions in a practice. In the Autumn students cover: Skin, Body Defence, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and Anaemia, Blood & Clotting. In GP, students should learn about the clinical themes being taught from the patients they meet in practice. After Christmas, the cases cover specific symptoms; chest pain, breathlessness, abdominal symptoms, joint pain, urinary thirst and weight loss, headache and collapse. For this symptom-based teaching, GP tutors should invite two patients with conditions relevant to the symptom the students are covering and help students practice gathering clinical information through history, examination and investigation.
Useful links for Year 1 GP teachers
Foundations of Medicine, October - December
GP1 Teacher Guide 2023-24 (PDF, 665kB)
GP1 FOM Session plan 1: Patients and health 2023-24 (PDF, 280kB)
GP1 FOM Session plan 2: Doctor-patient relationship 2023-24 (PDF, 243kB)
Additional and alternative ideas for teaching GP1 2023-24 (PDF, 138kB)
GP1 feedback 2022-23 (PDF, 305kB)
Reflective tool - identifying the 5Cs in clinical practice (PDF, 95kB)
COGConnect Consultation Observation Guide (PDF, 155kB)
Human Health and Wellbeing, January - May
GP1 HHW Session plan 1 - Musculoskeletal - 18 January 2024 (PDF, 569kB)
GP1 HHW Session plan 2 - Cardiovascular - 1 February 2024 (PDF, 740kB)
GP1 HHW Session plan 3 - Respiratory - 15 February 2024 (PDF, 802kB)
GP1 HHW Session plan 4 - Gastroenterology - 29 February 2024 (PDF, 467kB)
GP1 HHW Session plan 5 - Renal/Urinary - 14 March 2024 (PDF, 855kB)
GP1 HHW Session plan 7 - Endocrine - 16 May 2024 (PDF, 608kB)
Student concern
Find more informaiton on Student Wellbeing.
Useful documents and links for Years 1 and 2 GP teachers
- Reflective template for GP teachers (PDF, 87kB)
- Reflective form for Year 1 students' clinical encounters (PDF, 48kB)
- Activity for students to practice introducing themselves to patients (PDF, 99kB)
- Student support advice flow chart (PDF, 128kB)
- GP1 & GP2 workshop slides 2023-24 (PDF, 1,676kB)
- How to access Memory Problems video (PDF, 1,308kB)
Useful links for Year 2 GP teachers
- GP2 Teacher guide 2023-24 (PDF, 555kB)
- GP2 Clinical Contact Session Plan 2023/24 (PDF, 140kB)
- GP2 Patients and dates 2023/24 (PDF, 134kB)
- GP2 Skin and Integument session plan - 2/11/23 (PDF, 507kB)
- GP2 Body defence 16 November 23 (PDF, 377kB)
- GP2 Pharmacology 30 Nov 23 (PDF, 533kB)
- GP2 Anaemia, Blood and Clotting 14th Dec 23 (PDF, 768kB)
- GP2 Chest pain session plan 25 January 2024 (PDF, 670kB)
- GP2 Breathlessness session plan 8 February 2024 (PDF, 634kB)
- GP2 Abdominal session plan 22 February 2024 (PDF, 686kB)
- GP2 Joint pain session plan 21 March 2024 (PDF, 468kB)
- GP2 Urinary and thirst session plan 25 April 2024 (PDF, 497kB)
Effective Consulting Tutor
If you are interested in becoming an Effective Consulting tutor, please see our guide: Effective Consulting Tutor Recruitment (PDF, 314kB)
Effective Consulting Tutor Payment FAQs 2023-24 (PDF, 182kB)
Effective Consulting Tutor Workshop slides 2023-24 (PDF, 4,704kB)
Contacts
Year 1
Academic: Dr Lucy Jenkins
Administrator: Alison Capey
Year 2
Academic: Dr Lucy Jenkins
Administrator: Alison Capey
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