Education for Primary Care free access articles January - February


Prof Val Wass, Chair WONCA Working Party on Education, writes on the latest open access items in Education for Primary Care.

For this month, an interesting paper on undergraduate longitudinal clerkships is free to download here

"The hidden curriculum and its marginalisation of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships" Megan Brown, Frederic Hafferty & Gabrielle Finn- a collaboration between Hull York Medical School UK and the Mayo Clinic USA.

They emphasise that students need early exposure to patients – This builds on the WONCA Education Working Party’s work on “Reimagining medical education post COVID-19” available FREE here.

Other important papers available for free access are:


• “Primary care education in the time of COVID: embodiment, identity and loss.” Johnstone and Hart : A moving account of how the move to online consulting can impact available here.

• “Remote Supervision in Primary Care during the COVID-19 pandemic - the “new normal”? Lisa Miller offers an extensive exploration of the literature here