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The School of Medicine is becoming one that excels in clinical medicine both in research and teaching. Because St Andrews is a small town without a major hospital, our strategy is to concentrate efforts in medicine in the community and primary care. We have developed our undergraduate courses in this way and have established a track record of research in primary care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
If you are a GP who is interested in exploring the possibility of an academic career, then please do get in touch. Academic careers are varied and flexible, incorporating both research and teaching, and spanning the spectrum from clinicians supporting undergraduate teaching to full-time roles. We are always happy to discuss the possibilities. Key opportunities are summarised below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Scottish Clinical Research Excellence Development Scheme<\/a> (SCREDS) gives protected time to clinicians in specialist training to develop research skills. GP SCREDS posts are usually appointed in the middle of the GPST2 year to start at the beginning of GPST3. For GP SCREDS, your training programme is extended to four years and you do 50% clinical and 50% academic work in ST3 and ST4 giving you one year of protected time to develop academic experience (in practice, the time split is often more like 60% clinical in ST3 and 40% in ST4 to fit around clinical training and MRCGP). The aim of this post is to give you enough experience to decide if an academic career is right for you, and if it is, to prepare you for an application for a research fellowship to complete a PhD. You will typically therefore spend time doing methods and skills training, collaborating on existing projects, and developing and running your own work. We do expect you to contribute to teaching, but the focus is on clinical research. We currently have one GP SCREDS post, which is therefore only available every second year.<\/p>\n NHS Education for Scotland<\/a> fund post-CCT Clinical Academic Fellowships across Scotland. These are appointed in a single annual process where you nominate where you would like to work (Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, or St Andrews), and how many academic sessions (ie half-days) you would like to work (minimum 4 sessions, maximum 8 sessions). These normally advertise between late March and end of April and start in August. You are eligible provided that you have fairly recently completed GP training, although the time limit applied varies with individual circumstances. You organise your own clinical or other work in the rest of the week. The posts are for one year, although you can apply for a second year in open competition. Like GP SCREDS, the aim of this post is to give you enough experience to decide if an academic career is right for you, and if it is, to prepare you for an application for a research fellowship to complete a PhD. You will typically therefore spend time doing methods and skills training, collaborating on existing projects, and developing and running your own work. We do expect you to contribute to teaching, but the focus is on research, although for Clinical Academic Fellows it is possible to focus on educational or workforce research if that is your primary interest. Across Scotland, there are normally around 6 GPs appointed annually to these posts.<\/p>\n NHS Research Scotland<\/a> (NRS) fund fellowships intended to bring established practitioners into research. These are funded at the consultant scale for one day per week for two or three years, and as of 2020 there is a single annual national appointment process for GP applicants (consultants, nurses and allied health professionals are also eligible but are appointed separately). They typically advertise in the final quarter of the year, with interviews in January or February, and two GPs were appointed in the 2019\/2020 round. The application involves completing a form that includes a project proposal, so if you are interested in one of these then please get in touch to discuss.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Section – Colleagues” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” background_enable_color=”off” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Title” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_font=”|700|||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb image=”https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/pbs-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2024\/04\/20240415-FrankSullivan.jpg” alt=”Alun Hughes” icon_placement=”left” admin_label=”Blurb – Frank Sullivan” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” link_option_url=”https:\/\/risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk\/portal\/en\/persons\/samantha-j-pitt(c5bf4584-721e-4276-9f05-06c3bd2a40e1).html” hover_enabled=”0″ custom_css_blurb_image=”left: 75px;||position: relative;” custom_css_blurb_content=”left: -75px;||position: relative;” border_radii_image=”on|100px|100px|100px|100px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Frank Sullivan” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u00a0Frank Sullivan has been an academic GP since 1984.\u00a0 He was appointed as the Professor of Primary Care Medicine in the University of St. Andrews in 2017 where he is also the Director of Research in the School of Medicine.\u00a0 His research interests lie mainly in health informatics and community based trials, covering the spectrum from record-linkage of electronic health records to decision support to the evaluation of complex interventions.\u00a0 Professor Sullivan has published 234 papers on primary care research, notably in the early detection of cancer and the management of diabetes and Bell\u2019s palsy.\u00a0 He won the British Medical Association Research paper of the year in 2009 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2011 \u2013 the first family physician since 1908. His clinical practice is currently in Glenrothes.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb image=”https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/pbs-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2024\/04\/20240415-SarahMills.png” alt=”Alun Hughes” icon_placement=”left” admin_label=”Blurb – Sarah Mills” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” link_option_url=”https:\/\/risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk\/portal\/en\/persons\/samantha-j-pitt(c5bf4584-721e-4276-9f05-06c3bd2a40e1).html” hover_enabled=”0″ custom_css_blurb_image=”left: 75px;||position: relative;” custom_css_blurb_content=”left: -75px;||position: relative;” border_radii_image=”on|100px|100px|100px|100px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Sarah Mills” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u00a0Sarah Mills is a Lecturer in General Practice (Research & Education) and a GP in clinical practice in Cupar. \u00a0She completed her PhD, funded through a Chief Scientist Office (CSO) Clinical Academic Training Fellowship, with a thesis on \u2018Use of unscheduled care by people who die from cancer\u2019 at the University of Dundee in 2021. \u00a0Dr Mills obtained her clinical medical degree from the University of Cambridge and her undergraduate BSc (Hon) in medical science from the University of St Andrews.<\/p>\n Her research interests are in health data science, with a focus on unscheduled care and primary palliative care. \u00a0She has published work in subject-leading journals, and won the Howard Elder Prize and Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) A&M Wilson Award for excellence in research.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_button button_text=”Open all” button_alignment=”right” module_id=”open-close-button” module_class=”accordion-btn” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_use_icon=”off” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||||false|false” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off|desktop” button_bg_color__hover=”#FFFFFF” button_bg_enable_color__hover=”on”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_accordion open_toggle_text_color=”#0071b3″ closed_toggle_text_color=”#0071b3″ toggle_icon=”3||divi||400″ icon_color=”#000000″ use_icon_font_size=”on” icon_font_size=”45px” module_id=”open-close-accordion” module_class=”pa-add-accordion-icon” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” toggle_text_color=”#0071b3″ toggle_level=”h3″ toggle_font=”|700|||on||||” custom_css_toggle=”margin-bottom: 0 !important;” border_width_all=”0px” border_color_all=”#FFFFFF” border_width_top=”0px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Dummy Item” open=”on” _builder_version=”4.17.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”display: none;” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Teaching Colleagues” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_color=”on” border_width_top=”1px” border_color_top=”#000000″ border_width_bottom=”1px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Honorary Colleagues” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_color=”on” border_width_top=”1px” border_color_top=”#000000″ border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#000000″ global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post-CCT Clinical Academic Fellowships\u00a0(for GPs in ST3 or who have recently completed training)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
NHS Research Scotland Fellowships\u00a0(for GPs who are more established in practice)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
School of Medicine Colleagues<\/h2>\n
Prof Frank Sullivan<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n
Professor of Primary Care Medicine\u00a0<\/h4>\n
Dr Sarah Mills<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n
Senior Lecturer in Academic General Practice\u00a0<\/h4>\n
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