GP educators' understanding, experience and attitudes to teaching global health

Claire Patricia Rees; Karishma Singh; Felicity Knights; Aaron Poppleton

doi:10.1080/14739879.2019.1693909

GP educators' understanding, experience and attitudes to teaching global health

Educ Prim Care. 2020 Jan;31(1):48-53. doi: 10.1080/14739879.2019.1693909. Epub 2019 Dec 11.

Authors

Claire Patricia Rees¹, Karishma Singh¹, Felicity Knights¹, Aaron Poppleton¹

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

PMID: 31826742
DOI: 10.1080/14739879.2019.1693909

Abstract

Global health is becoming increasingly relevant to GPs in the UK. A gap analysis revealed many global health capabilities are not currently in the GP curriculum. We undertook a survey of 240 GP educators to understand their views on global health and capacity to deliver global health teaching to GP trainees. This revealed a wide variation of experience, training, and confidence in global health teaching. It is important that the needs of GP trainers are taken into account when considering how global health training will be delivered.

Keywords: GP; Global health; education.

MeSH terms

Curriculum
General Practice / education*
General Practitioners*
Global Health*
Humans
Surveys and Questionnaires
United Kingdom