GP Registrar
The practice has post graduate trainee (GP registrar) at the surgery who are training to become GPs in the future. They are fully registered doctors with experience of hospital medicine but now doing their formal training to become GPs. They are always supervised by another senior GP should they need to seek advice. We are very happy that they make a great addition to the team and hopefully you will have excellent experience consulting with these doctor(s).
Medical Students
As part of our commitment to medical education we regularly have medical undergraduate students. We are very fortunate to have fourth and fifth year medical students from University of Cambridge. They will often do consultations and examinations with the patients, but please rest assured that they are always under the supervision of an actual clinicians. The medical students are bound by the same standards of confidentiality and protection of your data as other members of the practice staff under the GDPR regulations.
When you contact us regarding your appointment, we will always for your consent to allow the medical students to consult with you, before speaking to the clinician you are booked with. We would be grateful if you would provide your consent and give the medical students an opportunity take a history and do examination prior to speaking/seeing a clinician. However if you do not wish to speak to or see the students then do not hesitate to let us know. This will have no bearing on your actual consultation or treatment.
Fourth Year Medical Students
We have four fourth year medical students who have placement in general practice in two weeks rotations in three times a year. For a lot of them it will be the first time exposure general practice medicine and they will often speak to patients and examine patients in pairs. This is completely normal practice in undergraduate medical education. As always they will present their findings to a qualified clinician who will then talk/see the patient.
Fifth Year Medical Students
We have four fifth year medical students that attend for placement at various parts of the year. They are often asked to speak to and examine patients. In addition to this they are asked to review and learn more about end of life care patient and therefore are often asked to do home visit and follow certain palliative care patients. This will only occur if the patient gives consent for medical students to be involved in their care.
Sixth Year Medical Students
Throughout the year we also have sixth year medical students, who will hold clinic on their own (rather than in pairs) and will discuss each patient with the supervising doctor. Based on each case the doctor will discuss the patient with the student and may physically see the patient and management plan is produced. Rest assured that you care will be same as seeing/speaking to a doctor. The sixth year students may also be expected to visit end of life patients either visiting them or by inviting them to come to surgery to learn more about their condition and impact of their condition in their life.
Research
At Church Langley Medical Practice we are proud to be involved in healthcare research with National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). for more information please visit https://www.nihr.ac.uk/