The tutor training session for Year 3 took place on Wednesday 27th August 2025 at 2pm. The session recording and PowerPoint slides are and available here.

Year 3 GP tutor training August 2025

GP tutor training video (2025)

In academic year 25-26 students will have 12 Wednesday mornings in a GP practice in either semester 1 or 2. Students will be in groups of 6, and you will have the same students for the 12 sessions. The students will be spending the rest of the week in a hospital in the same Trust area. £355 per session - 12 sessions each semester - £4,260 per term.

You can find lots of useful information in the Year 3 GP Tutor Student Guide 2025-26

The students will have access to Virtual Primary care. You can find information on how to login to the website in the document below.

VPC information for students You need a QUB email account to access the resources.

Here is the VPC Capsule Speaking Clinically guide with accompanying resources that the students can use

GP Home Visit Guide (2025-26)

What worked well from Tutors (all feedback from Spring 2025) 

• Seeing patients and mid/post consultations discussions. 
• Hot desking  
• Face to face consultations with patients 
• Hot seating, treatment room, running BP clinic 
• Speaking to a prearranged patient, doing audit, taking bloods. 
• Visiting a patient in their own home or a Nursing Home 
• Patient face to face consultations, medication counselling with PBP 
• Seeing patients in clinic 
• Consulting with patients and presenting cases/getting feedback 
• Clinical contact with patients  - sitting in with GP during surgeries 
• Overall, for students and tutors alike most useful activities are the times sitting in with GP and getting direct patient contact. This year, we involved the students with a Covid spring booster clinic which they all really enjoyed. 
• Protected student led consultations (hot seating) with direct GP supervision. 
• Taking histories and examining patients, both supervised and unsupervised. 
• Hot seating, blood taking, ECG. 

For more information or enquiries please email the Year 3 GP Academic Lead, Dr Nick Gardner - n.gardner@qub.ac.uk