Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
In March this year, I attended the Southwest Society for Academic Primary Care conference along with Eve Kingston, Sarah Price and Luke Mounce. Eve and I had been accepted to present on work around the OSCA study (investigating non-attendance at cancer referral appointments in people with anxiety and/or depression), with Eve presenting her scoping review […]
Iâm a GP and clinical research fellow, currently working on a Wellcome funded doctoral fellowship. My area of research is improving early cancer diagnosis in primary care and Iâm developing cancer risk prediction models for symptomatic patients. Iâm also really interested in machine learning and its increasing relevance to our research. My passion outside of […]
At the end of May 2024 I attended a symposium in New Delhi organised by the Indian Council of Medical Research and The Academy of Medical Sciences on âAddressing antimicrobial resistance with a One Health approachâ. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is associated with or directly attributed to around 5 million of deaths a year according to […]
On Thursday 20 June 2024 the University of Exeter Department of Health and Community Sciences hosted the 8th National Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Research Conference. This yearâs event was organised by Antoinette Davey, Jon Evans, and Ian Porter with a focus on the development and implementation of patient outcome measures across diverse clinical settings. […]
My name is Ge Chen, also known as Wawa. I am a graduate research assistant working in the DISCO group. The project I am currently working on involves combining genetic risk scores with routine test results to predict prostate cancer in primary care settings. The abstract of this project was accepted by the 2024 Ca-PRI […]
I presented a seminar as part of the Academic Primary Care at Exeter (APEx) seminar series in June 2024. The focus of my seminar was the clinical utility of the platelet count, measured as part of a standard full blood count, in cancer detection. This topic is particularly significant given the crucial role that early […]
Non-adherence to medication is a âwickedâ problem. Studies consistently report non-adherence rates of 50% or more particularly in people living with long-term chronic diseases. Non-adherence has been identified as a key target, for clinical interventions, for many years; I first learnt about it when I trained as a pharmacist over 30 years ago. Despite numerous […]
I was invited to present at the Pint of Science festival in May 2024, which aims to bring scientific research to the public in an accessible and engaging manner across 3 days on different topics such as Our Body, Planet Earth or Tech Me Out. The night I spoke focused on MythBusters about the human […]
The PALP-AF Study is funded by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (FR9). It is led by Dr Christopher Clark and Dr Rosina Cross and brings together a diverse team of researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Glasgow, clinicians from the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and public advisors with lived […]
Background: The selection of students to study medicine at university is a high-stakes process with far-reaching implications as the gateway to the profession. To differentiate between the plethora of high-achieving candidates, there has been widespread adoption of cognitively based selection assessments, also known as âadmission testsâ or âaptitude testsâ. These are psychological tests that assess […]