Who am I ?
I’m part-time GP partner and a GP with and interest in Healthcare Informatics, I also occasionally work as a freelance sessional (locum) GP, and am based in East Lothian. Since qualifying as GP from the the Aberdeen GP Vocational Training Scheme at the end of August 2005, I worked for about year in a range of rural, suburban and city centre practices in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, and for a similar length of time based in Glasgow working in the city as well as practices in the surrounding areas of Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, and Argyll. I returned to Aberdeen in August 2007 and completed a sequence of Maternity Locums, before moving to East Lothian in October 2009.
I am one of the first graduates from the combined MBBS and PhD programme at the Medical School of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne; intercalating a PhD between the pre-clinical and clinical stages of the MBBS course. I have an interest in Healthcare Informatics and have recently completed a distance learning MSc with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the University of Bath. I now work on a sessional basis with Scottish Clinical Information Management in Practice.
Working as a locum GP I am competent in paperlight consulting with EMIS (LV and PCS), Vision and GPASS. I have skills in minor surgery and have completed the Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning (now Faculty of Reproductive and Sexual Health) and have a Letter of Competenence for Subdermal Contraceptive Implants.
