Ian Malcolm Thompson, MBBS/PhD, MRCGP, DFSRH

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Qualifications

Education

Experience

Most Recent Posts

Working predominately as a partial replacement for 2 part-time partners in a suburban practice I also under took various ad hoc sessions in other practices and with the GMEDS out of hour’s service.

Relocating for personal reasons I have continued to work as a locum, gaining further experience in a wide range of practices in Greater Glasgow, Clyde, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Argyle. This included working single-handed in inner city and rural practices as well as being part of larger practice teams.  I also undertook some protocol development work.

Working in variety of rural and urban practices in the Grampian area I gained experience in using GPASS, Vision and EMIS PCS clinical systems in a paper light manner. From December 2005 I had a regular 2 days a week commitment in Insch Medical Practice, a rural practice with associated community hospital, completing surgeries, visits and prescription administrative work. I also completed a half day working as a duty doctor with my training practice and had frequent full day commitments with an inner-city practice in a multi-practice premises. I gained experience of the challenges of working in both rural and city centre environments, each practice had its own challenges, rurality/distance from hospital services or a mix of immigrant populations with language problems as well as the expected inner city deprivation and drugs problems.

GP Registrar

Peterculter gained Practice Accreditation in 2004 and holds Investors in People status. The practice is a high achiever in the QOF and has nurse-led chronic disease management clinics. It is a suburban/semi-rural 4 partner practice with a list of ~7300 patients in a paper light environment using the EMIS LV computer system. I gained a wide range of experience including: chronic disease management, providing medical input to local nursing homes, child health surveillance & antenatal care and experience in palliative care from a partner who works with Macmillan Cancer Relief. I completed Summative Assessment and MRCGP and developed proficiency in Minor Surgical Procedures including: cryotherapy of minor skin lesions, suturing of lacerations and other wounds, ingrowing toenail surgery, excision of sebaceous cysts and lipomas and electrocautery of skin tags. My audit project won the regional Musculoskeletal Medicine prize from the Arthritis Research Campaign and involved developing a system for monitoring DMARDs within the practice. I was exposed to out-of-hours care through the GDOCS co-operative and subsequently GMEDS, completing sessions in both Aberdeen city and the rural centre in Aboyne.

Aberdeen GPVTS

3 months of Obstetrics and 3 months of Gynaecology involving Antenatal clinics, Labour ward, Early Pregnancy Problems Unit, Postnatal wards, Gynaecology outpatient clinics and inpatient Gynaecological oncology. I helped introduce a system to streamline the application for annual and study leave whilst ensuring required clinical cover was maintained.

Experience in management of both minor and major A&E cases at both adult and children's A&E departments; participation in a dressings review clinic and care of patients on the A&E ward.

Skills gained in the assessment of common orthopaedic problems in a weekly outpatient clinic whilst working for an orthopaedic surgeon with an interest in joint replacement and back surgery. Responsible for the assessment of patients prior to operation and assisting with some operations. Completed an Audit of Operation Notes highlighting problems within departmental systems.

Participated in 4 to 5 outpatient clinics a week (including patch testing and cryotherapy/warts) and involved with inpatient care, developing skills in the treatment of common dermatological conditions.

As part of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary team, including CPN's and social workers, covering Central Aberdeenshire. This post involved a mix of inpatient care and community work in the assessment and ongoing management of over 65s with dementia and functional psychiatric illness. Experience gained in General Adult Psychiatry and Liaison Psychiatry through participation in on-call rota.

Previous Experience

ECCI Project Doctor	September 2001 – August 2002
Electronic Clinical Communications Implementation – Grampian, Directorate of e-Health, NHS Grampian

This post involved acting to support existing Project Doctors Dr Stuart Scott (GP) and Dr Dick Scorgie (Hospital Consultant) in the implementation phases of the Electronic Clinical Communication Implementation, for which Grampian is one of the lead sites. Acting principally in secondary care to produce continued clinical focus and involvement; the post also included clinical sessions at the Woolmanhill diabetes clinic with Dr Pearson.

A secondment acting as a regional project doctor for the New Deal Implementation Support Group, an independent group reporting to the Scottish Executive Health Department and the Scottish Junior Doctors Committee of the BMA. The role involved acting in advisory and supportive capacity to doctors-in-training, consultants and management in NHS Trusts in the north of Scotland; to aid them with the planning and implementation of the New Contract and New Deal for doctors-in-training by enabling the facilitation of partnership between doctors-in-training and clinical directorate management teams. In this post I was able to develop negotiating and management skills and worked as part of a regional and national team. I drew on my previous experience to make a positive contribution to IT systems being developed to support the work of the group.

Attachments to Elderly Care, Coronary Care, and the Combined Gastrointestinal Unit. I assisted with enrolling patients into the GUSTO IV Acute MI trial. From August 2000 I took on responsibility for organising and co-ordinating the shift rota for Senior House Officers and Junior House Officers within the Medical Directorate.

3 months Elderly Care Medicine and 3 months General Medicine working with Consultants in Cardiology and Gastroenterology. Involved in teaching Medical students from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and active in the Junior Doctors Forum within the Hospital.

Orthopaedics (one month Elective and one month Trauma), two months General Surgery and two months Vascular Surgery. Responsible for organising and co-ordinating the partial shift rota for House Officers in General Surgery and Orthopaedics. During my period with the Trust I was involved in a House Officer lead initiative to extend the surgical pre-assessment service.

Doctor of Philosophy

Based in an active research group under the supervision of Dr Gary Green, with support from the Foulkes Foundation Fellowship, I investigated the application of artificial neural networks in the modelling and non-linear systems identification of a range of biomedical processes, including nerve membrane biophysics, the biceps stretch reflex and auditory evoked potentials. A significant part of this work involved comparing the Nobel Prize winning model of nerve membrane biophysics, produced by Hodgkin and Huxley in 1952, with models produced using artificial neural networks from molluscan neurones. During my time in the department I was able to develop skills in critical analysis of published research, computer literacy and programming, communication and presentation. In addition I developed planning and problem solving abilities and learnt how to work as an integrated member of the research group.

Undergraduate Experience

Based in a busy paediatric unit at a teaching hospital in the capital of New Zealand. Regular ward exposure and various subspecialty clinics, experience of paramedical paediatric services; such as neurodevelopment therapy. I attended weekly neonatal unit meetings and participated in undergraduate teaching programme for New Zealand clinical students

Based in the national centre for Adult ENT Surgery at Green Lane Hospital with Associate Professor Mr Randall Morton with time spent in Paediatric ENT at the Starship Children's Hospital with Mr Colin Barber. I assisted in a range of adult and paediatric theatre cases, attended ENT and Head and Neck clinics; including a weekly multidisciplinary clinic for Head and Neck Cancer.

Courses/Training

Publications

Wagner, M.G., I.M. Thompson, S.Manchanda, P.G.Hearne, and G.G.R.Green. (1996) Modelling the Wiener Cascade using Time Delayed and Recurrent Neural Networks. In M.van der Heyden, J.Mrsic–Flogel and K. Weigl (Eds.), Helnet 95 (International Workshop on Neural Networks), Chapter 17, Amsterdam, pp. 160-168. VU University Press.

Wagner, M.G., I.M.Thompson, S.Manchanda, P.G.Hearne, and G.G.R.Green. (1995) Modelling the Wiener Cascade using Time Delayed and Recurrent Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the VII Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, Vetri sul Mare, Salerno, World Scientific Publishing. pp 142–150.

Janahmadi, M., P.G.Hearne, I.M.Thompson, R.Bal, D.J.Sanders, and G.G.R.Green. (1995) Non-linear dynamics of the potassium delayed rectifier current in cultured neurones of Helix aspersa. In Proceedings of the Physiological Society ( Oxford Meeting), Number 487, pp. 187P.

Janahmadi, M., P.G.Hearne, I.M.Thompson, D.J.Sanders, and G.G.R.Green (1995) Calcium currents in cultured neurones of Helix aspersa. In Proceedings of the Physiological Society ( Oxford Meeting), Number 487, pp. 58P.

Hearne, P.G., S.Manchanda, M.Janahmadi, I.M.Thompson, J.Wray, D.J.Sanders, and G.G.R.Green (1994) Solutions to the Hodgkin–Huxley equations: Functional analysis of a molluscan neurone.In F.H.Eeckman and J.M.Bower. (Editors), Computation in Neurons and Neural Systems CNS93, Chapter 1, pp. 3-9. Kluwer Academic Publishers.