Annual GP Tutors Conference 2025
Tuesday, 02 December 2025, 9am to 5pm
On Tuesday 2nd December, we will welcome GP tutors from across the region to our Annual Primary Care Tutors Conference. This year’s theme is 'Connected Practice: flourishing, creativity and community in Primary Care Education'.
Join Us for the Annual GP Tutors Conference: Connected Practice: flourishing, creativity and community in Primary Care Education
We are delighted to welcome GP tutors from across the region to our Annual Primary Care Tutors Conference. This year’s theme is 'Connected Practice: flourishing, creativity and community in Primary Care Education'.
Date: Tuesday, 2nd December 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Venue: St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, Cowley Place, Oxford OX4 1DY (What3words ///tennis.probe.mouse)
Please consider using public transport as St Hilda’s cannot provide parking at the college.
Register for the event here. Please register by Monday 3rd November to secure your place.
Unlike most GP training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events, attendance at the conference is free of charge for our GP tutors. This includes refreshments and a sit down lunch at St Hilda’s College. Details of a carer’s support fund can be found here for those who need financial support to attend.
Join us for...
- thought-provoking talks from a range of international and local speakers on 'Connected Practice'
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interactive workshops covering topics such as creativity and community, professional development, and clinical practice.
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connecting and catching up with fellow tutors from across the region.
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a complimentary sit-down lunch.
Event Schedule
09.00-09.30 Register and coffee
09.30-10.00 Introduction and welcome talks
10.00-10.45 Plenary Talk
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.45 Workshops
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Workshops, and return to main theatre
15.15-15.30 Tea
15.30-16.10 Workshop summaries: lightening talks, Prizes, including the introduction of the Kome Gbinigie Prize for Excellence in Clinical Communication by a Medical Student
16.10-16.50 Plenary Talk
16.50-17.00 Close
View the full, detailed agenda here.
You will have the opportunity to attend two workshops. Please indicate your preferred choices using the registration form. Please note that the event organisers may not be able to allocate you to your first choice.
Register for the conference before Monday 3 November to secure your place.
For any queries or additional information, please contact: ugteachingadmin@phc.ox.ac.uk.
Introduction of the Kome Gbinigie Prize for Excellence in Clinical Communication by a Medical Student
This year we are honoured to introduce the Kome Gbinigie Prize for medical students, a prize recognising excellence in clinical communication skills. This award celebrates the outstanding abilities of our medical students in connecting with patients through compassion, empathy and professionalism.
This prize is given in memory of Dr Kome Gbinigie, a much-loved and highly respected clinical communication skills tutor. She exemplified excellence in clinical communication and was a popular member of the teaching team, dedicated to nurturing kindness and compassion in others, particularly medical students.
We are honoured to welcome the recipient of the first Kome Gbinigie Prize, as well as members of Kome’s family, who join us on this special occasion.
Meet the Event Speakers
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Professor Sophie Park is a GP and Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Education in the Nuffield Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences, where she is Director of UG Primary Care studies and leads the Primary Care Workforce and Learning Research Group. She is Chair of the RCGP Scientific Foundation Board which supports and oversees RCGP research funding and awards. Sophie co-leads the NIHR Clinical Education Research Incubator for Clinical Education Research and leads the Society of Academic Primary Care Education Research group. Her research uses qualitive and evidence synthesis approaches to examine delivery and organisation of primary care clinical care and learning systems. Sophie's most recent book is called ‘Generalism in Clinical Practice and Education’. |
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I trained in Physiology and Medicine at UCL and then pursued my GP training at Northwick Park Hospital Vocational Training Scheme. Realising the importance of training in research methods, I undertook a MSc in Epidemiology from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and concurrently pursued a MD at Imperial College London. My work involves considerable interactions with policymakers in national governments and inter-governmental bodies such as the World Bank and World Health Organization. Recognising the need to improve my understanding of policy making processes, I undertook a Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy and Practice based at Harvard Medical School. |
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I am responsible for operational leadership of the Oxford clinical medicine course. Working with a team of Associate Directors, administrative staff and teachers throughout the School, the Director of Clinical Studies has responsibility for curriculum, assessment, quality management, faculty development and student affairs. |
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Louise Younie is a General Practitioner and Professor of Medical Education at Queen Mary University of London where she leads on faculty development and innovation. She draws on co-creative and creative enquiry methodologies for humanising medicine. She is co-chair of the Royal College of GPs Creative Health Special Interest Group (SIG), a National Teaching Fellow (2022) and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her ‘Flourishing Spaces’ programme received the silver QS Global Education Award in the ‘nurturing wellbeing and purpose’ category, 2024. |
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Catherine Pope is Professor of Medical Sociology, and Associate Head of Department for People, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. She is also a governing body fellow at Green Templeton College, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. An expert in qualitative and mixed methods for applied health research, she is possibly best known as co-editor of ‘Pope and Mays’ Qualitative research in health care (4th edition Oxford: Wiley 2020, Japanese translation, 2001; Portuguese translations, 2005, 2007). Her research is increasingly about access to care, looking at the organisational change, service delivery and reconfiguration, and workforce and work in health services. She has led a programme of work since 2008 looking at digital triage and the interface between primary, urgent and emergency care. |
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Stephanie Tierney is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford. She has worked as a health services researcher for over 20 years. Since 2018, her research has focused on social prescribing. She has received funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research and UK Research and Innovation to undertake a variety of studies in this area. Her research has focused on the link worker role in primary care and the cultural sector’s contribution to social prescribing. She leads a network of academics, clinicians, providers, policy makers and members of the public with an interest in social prescribing called the Oxford Social Prescribing Research Network. |
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Dr Agalya Ramanathan studied medicine at Cambridge/Imperial and started academic GP training in 2018, alongside which she also completed a Master's in Medical Education and worked in the primary care education team at UCL. Following completion of GP training, she has worked in primary care education at Imperial and St George's as well as Oxford, and has research interests in various areas of medical education including innovative educational approaches. She has delivered/co-delivered workshops related to QI/audit in general practice. |
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Dr Hannah Fuchs is a final year medical student at the University of Oxford. She previously completed an intercalated DPhil with Cancer Research UK where she developed an interest in cancer early detection and prevention and clinical data analysis. She returned to medical school in 2024 and spent her Community Based Medicine placement at the Beaumont Elms GP practice in summer 2025 which sparked her interest in primary care, particularly social inequalities in health care provision. |
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Catharina Savelkoul is a DPhil student in the Health Economics team, funded through an MRC iCASE studentship in partnership with Optum. Her research investigates the drivers of career choice into General Practice (GP) among UK medical students, with a focus on workforce planning and policy design.
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Eleanor joined the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford in April 2025. She is working with the Workforce and Learning Research Group as a realist researcher, to improve our understanding of workforce challenges in primary care and maternity services, particularly in under-served communities. This work is part of the wider 'Workforce Voices' partnership funded by the NIHR to understand and address the challenges around workforce sustainability in under-served areas. |
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Performing Medicine is a team of expert facilitators and pioneers of the use of arts-based approaches in healthcare with over 20 years' experience providing creative training programmes for healthcare professionals and students. Their multidisciplinary research has been supported by funding bodies such as UKRI AHRC, Wellcome and the British Academy. Awards include Wellcome Sustaining Excellence and the Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation. |
