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Innovative, paired careers tutorials: increasing the number of medical students choosing general practice as a career (2018)
Journal Article
Allsopp, G., & Taggar, J. (2018). Innovative, paired careers tutorials: increasing the number of medical students choosing general practice as a career. Education for Primary Care, 29(5), 301-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2018.1483742

Background: With a crisis in general practice recruitment, to maintain the current workforce, the Department of Health and Social Care quote a need for 50% of our medical students to choose general practice as a career. There is much variety between... Read More about Innovative, paired careers tutorials: increasing the number of medical students choosing general practice as a career.

Medical students’ attitudes towards increasing early clinical exposure to primary care (2018)
Journal Article
van Oppen, J., Camm, C., Sahota, G., Taggar, J., & Knox, R. (2018). Medical students’ attitudes towards increasing early clinical exposure to primary care. Education for Primary Care, 29(5), 312-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2018.1495107

Context: The sustainability of the future UK General Practice (GP) workforce is reliant on half of medical graduates choosing a career in primary care (1), but while good quality undergraduate GP placements (particularly those which are early in the... Read More about Medical students’ attitudes towards increasing early clinical exposure to primary care.

Withdrawal of antihypertensive therapy in people with dementia: feasibility study (2018)
Journal Article
van der Wardt, V., Burton, J. K., Conroy, S., Welsh, T., Logan, P., Taggar, J., …Gladman, J. (2018). Withdrawal of antihypertensive therapy in people with dementia: feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4(1), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-017-0221-0

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: This study explored the feasibility of a randomised controlled withdrawal trial of antihypertensive medication in normotensive people with dementia. Feasibility aspects included response, recruitment, exclusion and d... Read More about Withdrawal of antihypertensive therapy in people with dementia: feasibility study.