Who am I ?
I'm a freelance sessional (locum) GP based in Aberdeen. Since qualifying as GP 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 completed the GP Registrar training at the end of August 2005 having followed the Aberdeen GP Vocational Training Scheme. 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 am currently completing a distance learning MSc with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the University of Bath.
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.
I was born and lived most of my life in Newcastle, I moved to Aberdeen in November 2000, spending a nearly a year in Glasgow before returning to Aberdeen in August 2007.