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Practice has been long established in other activities such as...
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.
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
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
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: