How will the Covid-19 pandemic shape the future of primary care undergraduate teaching? Understanding modifications and developments deployed by UK academic units of primary care, and their implications for the future.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary care has been under-represented in its contribution to the academic literature base on Covid-19 developments. We sought to understand how teaching and learning was modified and developed by primary care academic leaders to support the continuation of primary care-orientated learning during the Covid-19 pandemic; and explore how these changes may shape future educational delivery in primary care.

Methods

We adopted a qualitative approach, using semi-structured interviews of seven General Practice Heads of Teaching (GP HoTs) from UK medical schools. We used mixed deductive and inductive coding to analyse interview transcripts. Modifications and developments were coded to four a priori themes (clinical off-site; clinical on-site; synchronous remote; asynchron

SUBMITTER: Harrison M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10566052 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature