Student Choice Placements (previously known as Student Selected Components, or SSCs) are offered in Years 2 and 3. For more information on each of the available teaching opportunities please see below.

Why supervise a student choice placement?

• Useful to your practice, e.g. undertaking quality improvement, developing patient materials or helping to evaluate your service.
• Students are enthusiastic having chosen a project they want to do
• Engage with, inspire and be inspired by the next generation of clinicians
• Funding is available

Year 2 Placements

At a glance:

• Placements will run in September/October 2024 for Year 2 students.
• Placements are 3 weeks long
• Each year (January) we ask for placement proposals for Autumn that year. Proposals for Autumn 2024 (the 24/25 Academic Year) will be invited in early 2024. 
• There is funding available.
• Placement supervisors don't have to be in a salaried or partnership role, and can include other healthcare professionals within your team (locums, practice manager, pharmacist, ANP, physician assistant etc) and any other community or third sector contacts you may have

For more information about how to offer a placement and what it might involve, please take a look at our ‌Year 2 Student Choice - Information for supervisors 2024 (PDF, 439kB)

Any questions, please email the Primary Care Lead for Student Choice Dr Rachel Johnson.

Year 3 placements

At a glance:

• Placements run in July each year
• Placements are 6 weeks long
• Each Autumn we invite proposals for the following academic year. Proposals for Summer 2024 have already been submitted.
• There is funding available.
• Placement supervisors don't have to be in a salaried or partnership role, and can include other healthcare professionals within your team (locums, practice manager, pharmacist, ANP, physician assistant etc) and any other community or third sector contacts you may have
• Placements should help students to explore ‘evidence- based medicine in the broadest sense’. Students will choose an area of study, collect data, analyse it and reflect on its use in clinical settings. Students will be expected to work largely independently with some support.

Please take a look at our Year 3 SC Information for supervisors 2023-24 (PDF, 266kB) document for more information.

The list below is not exhaustive but gives some ideas of previous projects offered. Please do get in touch with any ideas or questions. 

Contacts

Academic: Dr Rachel Johnson

Administrator:  PHC teaching administration team