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 TRAINING

The Jubilee Street Practice  is a Training practice and part of the Tower Hamlets VTS scheme since 1976 when it was started and run by Dr Brian Harris.

Three partners Drs Hull, Edmondson & Cartwright are GP Trainers  and Dr Cartwright is currently one of the Tower Hamlets VTS course organisers. 

The practice usually has two registrars in post. They are attached to the practice for a year prior to being fully qualified to enter General Practice, having already completed the hospital component of their training. they are valued members of the team, they receive a broad range of tuition from all members of the practice to complete their training  and help prepare for the MRCGP examination, they have their own surgeries and appointments and are involved with the Well Baby Clinic and Antenatal Clinics.

Several former trainees have gone  on to become principals in general practice in Tower Hamlets. Our current Registrars are Dr Sharon Gillings and Dr Anwara Ali.

  

TEACHING

There has been a considerable move towards more teaching of undergraduates in General Practice and other community settings and our practice has been very much in the vanguard.

The practice is linked to the Royal  London and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical schools. We offer introduction to General Practice as part of the combined GP/Health Care of the Elderly/Epidemiology module. Teaching on this four day course is provided by Mary Edmondson, Robin Cartwright, Liz Hands, Jean Trollope with the help of our clinical psychology colleagues.

A two week Obstetrics & Gynaecology course has been run several times by Mary Edmondson and Naomi Beer. Mary Edmondson has been involved in other courses such as the GP module OSCE and with the Breaking Bad News course, which is part of the communication skills course at the beginning of the clinical terms. Mary and Nicola Hagdrup are involved in the assignments, which are also part of the Integrated GP, Health Care of the Elderly & Epidemiology module

Very often the students will "sit in" during consultations with the doctors and nurses as part of their course. We welcome your co-operation and involvement in this teaching but if you prefer not to have students present please say so. This will not cause offence or affect your medical care in any way.

 

RESEARCH

In May 1998 the practice applied to become a research practice with the newly developing East London and Essex Network (ELENoR for short). Along with six other East London practices our bid was successful, and so we have gained funding of £15.000 for three years to develop a practice infrastructure for research, and to pump prime a number of practice based projects.

We have developed a number of projects, which have been built on our two-year experience as a Mental Health Research Practice, as well as a number of new projects for individuals and groups working at research for the first time. 

The full list of our 'research portfolio' is as follows:

  • Spiritual needs of patients: an interview study
  • Evaluation of models of joint working between secondary mental health services and primary care
  • Antidepressant prescribing and ethnicity
  • The take up of travel advice by Bangladeshi patients: who buys anti-malaria?
  • Domestic violence
  • Risk taking amongst women seeking contraception advice
  • Evaluation effectiveness of self help literature for psychology patients
  • Does the use of GP Co-operatives reduce the use of AED by patients?