Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
I’m 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 I’m developing cancer risk prediction models for symptomatic patients. I’m also really interested in machine learning and its increasing relevance to our research. My passion outside of […]
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 ‘admission tests’ or ‘aptitude tests’. These are psychological tests that assess […]
Authors: Tanimola Martins and Liz Down One of the beauties of traveling on UK motorways is the ability to make pit stops at service stations, where you can take care of necessities like using the restroom, grabbing a bite to eat, squeezing in some exercise, or even jotting down a blog post. Probably not in […]
The TOGETHER 2 study, run by researchers in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Universities of Exeter and York, aims to evaluate video and hybrid group consultations for chronic conditions. With a focus on digital inclusion and equity, the study is assessing the implementation, impact and […]
Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death worldwide. Cardiac rehabilitation aims to restore people with heart disease to health, through exercise, education and psychological support. Traditionally, centre-based cardiac rehabilitation programmes (typically based at hospital clinics, gyms or community centres) are offered to patients after cardiac events (such as heart attacks) or surgery to […]
Prof Philip Evans January 2024 As most of you will be aware I have been researching GP continuity for many years alongside Sir Denis Pereira Gray and Dr Kate Sidaway Lee in St Leonards Research Practice. It is a few years since my last APEx blog on this (“throwing out the baby with the bathwater”), […]
Supporting people in accessing and using NHS online services – digital facilitation in primary care. For many years now getting things done online has been part of everyday life, whether that is booking train tickets, doing your Christmas shopping, booking a hairdresser appointment, or paying bills. Why should interacting with your doctor be any different? […]
The OECD International Survey of People Living with Chronic Conditions (PaRIS Survey): development and evaluation of the patient questionnaire – Dr Ian Porter The presentation was on an international project which Exeter has been at the heart of, the Patient-Reported Indicators Survey (PaRIS Survey*) of People Living with Chronic Conditions. The genesis of the project […]
Can multi-task hence at the forefront of research on multimorbidity and combine epidemiology with data science methods. Work on multimorbidity using the examples of heart failure and cardio-oncology. Supporting early career researchers and diversity. Looking forward to building epidemiology data programmes working with data scientists, and innovating. Research can be fun and relevant; not pompous! […]
I am a Senior Research Fellow in children and young people’s mental health, and my programme of research is co-located between the Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) and the Children and Young people’s Mental Health (ChYMe) research collaboration. My wider research focus is on equitable access to health and social care for people […]