by Alejandra Bonwick, Second Year Undergraduate Medical Student, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol
“If you devote yourself to being the best practitioner you can be, you will improve the lives of thousands of patients in your working lifetime.
If you teach students and young doctors, you will help to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients.
If, through research, you change the way we all practise, you will help to improve the lives of millions.”
Paul Freeling
High quality research is a cornerstone of our healthcare system: it ensures that evidence-based medicine underpins patient care. We are surrounded by it from the moment we start medical school, yet academic general practice is often more invisible than research in secondary care. Academic GPs are scattered across the country in smaller practices, rather than being concentrated in the hospitals where we spend the majority of placement … Read more