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MBChB5 Teaching Centre - Block 1, Grampian, (2026 - 2027)

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I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Dr Sharmina Begum, a GP tutor at the GP and Mental Health Teaching Centre. She created an incredibly positive learning environment and helped bridge gaps in my clinical reasoning, particularly when approaching complex undifferentiated clinical presentations. Her teaching has been invaluable in building my confidence. Thank you, Dr Begum.
All GP tutors were extremely supportive and kind during our placement. Especially drs Windle, Muirhead, Donald, and Halliday who provided a good balance of tutor support and encouragement to boost my confidence and skills.
I think this is one of the highlights of my GP block. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the teaching centre. All the GP tutors were exceptionally supportive and gave great teaching. Particularly, Dr Vorenkamp, Dr Windle and Dr Donald were amazing with their explanation of conditions and management and their eagerness to help students understand and do well.
Dr Vorenkamp, Dr Cadger, Dr Mulholland, Dr Begum, Dr Windle, Dr Muirhead These GPs made the Teaching Hub absolutely amazing and such a comfortable, well supported environment. I actively looked forward to coming in each day to work with and learn from these lovely GPs who went above and beyond to give us such a positive experience. They gave such helpful feedback and ensured to give really helpful constructive advice and I feel my clinical skills have definitely developed and improved. I had the best time and am very grateful! Carol Ann at the Teaching Hub Reception was so lovely and amazing at her job, and although we were one member down at reception she still readily responded to all my emails regarding results and ECGs promptly. She was also great with patients and watched over two young children from the patient I was with so she could go in on her own.
The tutors and admin staff were all very enthusiatic and welcoming. They set a good tone for the environment of the teaching center.
Dr.Vorenkamp and Dr. Widow are supportive and encouraging. Their feedbacks are really useful. I built my confidence during those 2 weeks in Teaching Centre

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Some of the tutors gave feedback which was not in line with what was observed over the previous 2 weeks. They were judgemental of their past experience with the student while giving the student feedback. The tutor during the feedback session also asked personal questions such as “are you a citizen of x country? I can tell where you are based on your accent and spellings.” This has no correlation to the feedback about consulting a patient whatsoever or about professionalism. There were also instances where one student is told “we don’t give 5 stars to anyone as it indicated you are equivalent to an FY1” but literally giving 5 stars to another student. When giving feedback they need to be able to justify why they are not able to give 5 stars rather than give inaccurate information such as we don’t give 5 stars to anyone. The tutors on Wednesday seemed clueless. When no patients came in we were not given any additional teaching and were neither dismissed home. We were just told to sit in our own rooms. Is the purpose of the teaching center to just sit around until we complete the 9-5 or actually get some teaching? Again tutors were clueless about TABs. Someone said we need to supervise you at least 2 times. We don’t get to choose our supervisors so how do we ensure we even get the form done? Why do we need an induction session from 9-9.30 and also from 3-4pm so that they make sure we know what is going on for the next day? They only release the timetable on that day itself as to which room you are consulting in so I did not understands the purpose of the 3-4pm session which they said was there to make students clear as to what to expect the next day.
Need more patient influx, too much idle time. Otherwise great learning environment
Timetabling could be more organised - some pairs together several times a week/some people in psych several times a week. Mental health side could be more well organised. GP cases had good level of complexity for our level.
I enjoyed the time at the Teaching Centre.
The Teaching Centre was honestly one of the best clinical placements I’ve had and I feel so much more confident coming out of it. The staff were absolutely fantastic - from the lovely Carol Ann at reception to the amazing GP tutors it was so incredibly well supported and such a comfortable clinical environment for us all to thrive in. The ability to see our own patients, take a detailed history, relevant examination, and formulate a management plan all supported with a designated clinical tutor was such a great experience. Sometimes in GP, understandably, GPs get busy and you can have to wait to ask for advice or handover a patient. The GP Teaching Centre completely solves this by creating the perfect teaching facility that’s supported for us, and allowing patients that need to be seen the ability to get an on the day appointment that may be more convenient for them. All my patients were absolutely lovely and only had positive things to say about the Teaching Hub. It’s great that they know coming in that it’s medical students that they will be seeing, so they have already consented to this, and I found them to be incredibly patient and understanding of this. They also liked how we get longer to see them, some of them saying they felt more seen due our ability to be in the environment and have the time to ask more detailed questions.
I think seeing patients in pairs in beneficial in the beggining but would have appreciated more opportunity to consult on my own. I do not see the benefit of consulting in a 3 and found this to make the days go very slowly. I did feel quite repatitive at times to take a history, present it and then watch the tutor take the same history again. I feel in simple cases with well presented histrories the tutors do not need to do this again. This would also speed the whole process up. Seeing 3 patients in a morning started to feel very slow by the end of the two weeks. I would have appreciated more constructive feedback, I only had positive feedback which was lovely but would have appreciated some points to improve upon.
The tutors were supportive, friendly and keen to teach. It created a really nice learning environment and lovely working atmosphere. I really appreciated the time they all gave us, including watching consultations that were not being formally examined and giving feedback. I think the feedback for mini-cex and DOPs is the most though I have had at medical school and really useful to my development. Having access to such senior and experienced doctors is a great learning opportunity for us. I think the standard of care is really good and I would feel happy for my own family to be seen here as patients (as there are senior doctors there able to give us students and the patients their time). Having previously been in GP and seen patients more independently in tadam clinics, I did find working in pairs a bit of a step back. Although boundaries were set, these were not always respected by colleagues. I think this is an opportunity to learn to work directly with peers in a way that will be relevant to FY1, when sharing a ward with colleagues. I think having a TAB form to give and receive feedback to each other amongst us students would be useful in helping us all develop as colleagues. I am aware there are peer feedback forms and these were used to improve consulting skills, I'm really meaning team working and interpersonal skills. We have filled in forms for SSC and given and received feedback about our ability to work with others, so this would not be a completely new concept to us. I appreciate it is early days, but I do think we struggled a bit with a lack of patients, despite the team's efforts to bring more people in. More patients would make the experience more valuable and hopefully allow us not to have to work in pairs all the time. Although the teaching centre is very supportive, I wonder if it might be more beneficial for 4th years, given the level of support available and the requirement to work in pairs. I also think it misses some key aspects of GP, such as managing multiple members of the same family, long-term conditions like T2DM and hypertension, sick notes, and navigating difficult conversations around long term health without losing rapport or trust with patients you have seen before and will see again eg conversations around alcohol, weight. There were some plumbing issues and infrastructure work that needed to be carried out while we were on placement. I think we were very well protected from the stress and disruption this caused, and alternative arrangements were found quickly to ensure that teaching and the clinics could continue. I appreciate that this cannot have been easy to manage and I think we all really appreciated how well the situation was handled by the tutors and wider team. Overall, it was a really lovely place to come on placement and I hope it continues to go well.