Eliot Rees e.rees@keele.ac.uk
The epidemiology of teaching and training general practices in England
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Abstract
There is no national picture of teaching and training practices or the communities they serve. We aimed to describe the association between general practices’ engagement with education and their characteristics, locality and patients’ health-status and satisfaction. This data linkage study of all English practices calculated odds ratios for teaching and training status and practice, locality and patient variables. Teaching and training practices are larger than practices which do neither (mean list size (SD) 7074 (3736), 10112 (4934), and 5327 (3368) respectively, p < 0.001 and have fewer patients per GP (1932 (951), 1838 (544), and 2117 (1585) respectively, p < 0.001). Their localities have a higher proportion of White British residents (77.99% (24.17), 81.66% (20.81), 73.07% (26.91), p < 0.001). Practices with more GPs (OR 1.21 (95%CI 1.18–1.20)), fewer male GPs (0.45 (0.36–0.55)) and a higher proportion of White British people in their locality (1.30 (1.06–1.60)) were more likely to teach. Practices in rural areas (1.68 (1.43–1.98)), with more GPs (1.22 (1.27–1.39)), more full time equivalent GPs (2.68 (1.64–4.40)), fewer male GPs (0.17 (0.13–0.22)) and a higher proportion of White British people in their locality (1.34 (1.02–1.75)) were more likely to train. Teaching and training practices had higher patient satisfaction (0.293 (0.190, 0.397) and (0.563 (0.442, 0.685)) respectively and quality and outcomes framework scores (0.507 (0.211, 0.804)) and (0.996 (0.650, 1.342)) respectively than those which did not. Educationally engaged practices are unrepresentative in serving less ethnically diverse and (for training practices) less urban environments. Investment is needed to increase the proportion of educational practices in diverse urban localities.
Citation
Rees. (2016). The epidemiology of teaching and training general practices in England. Education for Primary Care, 462-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2016.1208542
Acceptance Date | Jun 29, 2016 |
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Publication Date | Jul 18, 2016 |
Journal | Education for Primary Care |
Print ISSN | 1473-9879 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 462-470 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2016.1208542 |
Keywords | Medical education, primary care, general practice, epidemiology, postgraduate, teaching, undergraduate |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2016.1208542 |
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