Annual Teachers Conference 2025: Flourishing in Primary Care Education

What’s changing with PCH1 and 2 in 2025/26? What are the hot topics we’re hearing from tutors and students? And what do you think could help improve it further?

Connect with other tutors, share ideas, and explore strategies to enhance student learning on placement.

Facilitator:
Dr VIral Thakerar, Years 1 & 2 PCH Placement Lead

Join us for a workshop designed to inform you about the latest updates in MICA for 2025/26. This is a great opportunity to connect with other MICA Tutors, share ideas, collaborate and explore strategies to enhance student learning on placement. 

Facilitators:
Dr Jasmin Hodgson, Clinical Teaching Fellow in Primary Care
Dr Katie Scott, Clinical Teaching Fellow in Primary Care

What have belonging and mattering got to do with student success? What is the difference between them? How can focusing on them strengthen your education practice? 

In this interactive workshop, we will explore the concepts of belonging and mattering, drawing on the literature and student perspectives to demonstrate their significance in everyday education practices, to fostering inclusive learning environments for student success. 

Join us to explore how we can continue ensuring placements are a space for students to flourish.

Facilitators:
Dr Naa Okantey, Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow in Primary Care Design, Evaluation and Assessment
Michael Cole, Principal Teaching Fellow in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

In the current climate, it is increasingly challenging for GP tutors to balance the demands of clinical practice with medical student education. 
Join us for an interactive workshop focussing on practical everyday tips to use to maximise student learning in your GP surgery.

We will explore:

• Current challenges and placement expectations
• Top suggestions for ad-hoc and structured student teaching
• How best to engage students within practice life and utilise the wider primary care team

Facilitators:
Dr Georgina Neve, Clinical Teaching Fellow in Primary Care
Dr Neepa Thacker, Year 5 GPPHC Placement Lead

Coaching approaches involve working in partnership with people to support them to identify and address what matters to them. In this interactive, experiential workshop, you will become familiar with some key coaching principles and skills and explore how these could be applied in your own educational and healthcare contexts with students and patients.

Facilitator:
Dr Arti Maini, Director of Undergraduate Primary Care Education

How does planetary health impact human health? What is sustainable healthcare? Why do our future doctors need to learn about sustainable healthcare?
In this interactive workshop, we will explore the topic of sustainable primary care and share ideas about how you can inspire your students to learn about sustainable healthcare principles and put these into practice.

Facilitators:
Dr Nikul Kotecha, Principal Teaching Fellow in Primary Care Design, Evaluation and Assessment
Dr Roshni Bhudia, GP ACF trainee

Calling all GPPHC tutors. Join this workshop for the latest placement updates for the 2025/26 academic year and connect with fellow tutors to share experiences and exchange effective techniques for enriching student learning in your practice. 

Facilitator:
Dr Neepa Thacker, Year 5 GPPHC Placement Lead

Join this workshop with your Placement Lead to stay updated with the latest in GPSA for 2025/26. Connect with fellow GP Tutors from across the UK and share best practices to enhance student learning on placement. Don’t miss this opportunity to collaborate, learn and grow together.

Facilitator:
Dr SIan Powell

With the global AI race hotting up, there is no better time to ensure you can leverage its uses in teaching and learning for medical students, particularly when time or space can be limited. This workshop explores different virtual patients and tutors that are tailored for specific tasks such as history taking, negotiating with a patient or GP debrief following a student consultation. You will interact with ready-made virtual patients and tutors, critique them and consider where you might use them to enhance student learning on placement.

Facilitators:
Dr Aisha Yahaya, Principal Teaching Fellow in Primary Care Digital Health and Education
Dr Viral Thakerar, Years 1 & 2 PCH Placement Lead

This workshop will explore how creating arts may be used in medical education and the possible benefits of using this approach. Participants will have the opportunity to work with the arts to explore their lived experience; whilst also considering how it may be used in their teaching.

Throughout the workshop, participants will be invited to engage with short creative activities e.g., viewing photographs and writing short poems. No prior knowledge of creating art is required.

Facilitators:
Dr Stephanie Bull, Senior Teaching Fellow, Medical Education Innovation and Research Centre
Dr Jasmin Hodgson, Clinical Teaching Fellow in Primary Care

How does planetary health impact human health? What is sustainable healthcare? Why do our future doctors need to learn about sustainable healthcare?
In this interactive workshop, we will explore the topic of sustainable primary care and share ideas about how you can inspire your students to learn about sustainable healthcare principles and put these into practice.

Facilitators:
Dr Nikul Kotecha, Principal Teaching Fellow in Primary Care Design, Evaluation and Assessment
Dr Roshni Bhudia, GP ACF trainee