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Staff Profile

Dr Nicola Mulgrew

Course Director- Learning Communities

  • Email: nicola.mulgrew@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: School of Medical Education
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    Cookson Building
    Newcastle University
    NE2 4HH
Background

I am a GP retainer in County Durham (2 sessions a week) and also the Course Director for Learning Communities at Newcastle University (4 sessions a week).


As a GP I lead on teaching for year 5 students in the practice and have experience of teaching all years of the MBBS curriculum.


As part of my Course Director role I lead a team of 34 PPD (personal and professional development tutors) and am responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the Learning Communities aspect of the Newcastle MBBS curriculum.


Qualifications:


MBBS with Merit (Newcastle University) 2001

MRCGP with Merit 2007

Certificate of Medical Education (2023)

Teaching

I have been involved in teaching all years of Newcastle MBBS students. Currently I supervise final year students in my GP practice and am a PPD tutor for the A101 students in the Learning Communities.

Research

I have some research experience through my role as a GP teaching fellow where the focus of my work was on developing GP tutorials for final year students. As part of this, all students were asked to undertake a SusQI (Sustainability Quality Improvement) project. This part of the curriculum was evaluated and led on by Dr Jenna Chambers, and a report was published in The Clinical Teacher.


I am also a lead for the research and evaluation group for Learning Communities.

Publications