PG Certificate in Primary Care

Professor Alex Harding

Alex is course director of the Primary Care Programmes and is Professor of Primary Care Education at Exeter University. He  has worked as a GP in Exeter for the last thirty years as a partner in a city centre practice. 

He is involved at the Medical School as a Sub-Dean, making sure the community part of the medical school programme runs smoothly. He is also involved in curriculum development and innovation and is course director of the Masters in Clinical Education and also Principles of Primary Care International.

Alex has extensive experience in research-informed educational policy development, having worked with several Governments, the RCGP, EU, WHO and other organisations to strengthen Primary Care through education.  

Dr Rob Daniels

Rob is a GP and Senior Clinical Lecturer in the College of Medicine & Health. He is module lead for Advanced Clinical Assessment and Decision-Making Skills, Acute Presentations in Practice, and From Theory to Practice to Quality, and module Co-Lead for Independent Prescribing, as well as long term contributor to the MSc Extreme Medicine, drawing on his experience of practicing medicine overseas and his work with Devon Doctors in the UK. 

Rob Bethune

Rob is a Colo-Rectal Consultant Surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. He is primarily a laparoscopic bowel cancer surgeon as well as dealing with the surgical side of inflammatory bowel disease. 
 
He has had a significant role in improving the delivery of health care services. After spending a year as a surgeon in a rural mission hospital in Zambia he took time out of his surgical training to work as a manager at the South West Strategic Health Authority. During this year he worked on a 17 hospital quality improvement and safety collaborative improving the standards of peri-operative care. He continues this role with the South West Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), where he set up a region wide quality improvement and patient safety collaborative and continues to support this as a clinical advisor. 

Sarah Bradley

Sarah Bradley is Programme lead for the Masters in Healthcare Leadership and Management, module lead for the Education Essentials, Assessing Learning and  Researching Clinical Education modules of the Masters in Clinical Education, and module lead for the Advanced Skill Development module of the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice. Previously, as Senior Clinical Skills Tutor for the Medicine programme, she had responsibility for a range of Clinical Skills teaching and assessment, including procedural skills, physical examination, clinical communication,  resuscitation and simulation.  She has 18 years’ experience as a medical educator and has a particular interest in clinical communication, skill development, assessment of clinical competence and professional identity formation.  Her research interest is in qualitative assessment methods and she is currently working towards a doctorate. 

Sarah is a registered nurse and prior to working in medical education worked for the NHS specialising in  Coronary Care and Research Nursing. 

Jane Rowe

Jane Rowe is module lead for the Principles of Supervision and Mentoring module. 
 
She has a background as an education adviser and academic developer, and since 2006 has designed, led and contributed to a range of postgraduate and faculty development programmes. 
 
Jane has had a significant role in enhancing the quality of postgraduate provision, through funded projects, staff development and external engagement. 
 
Currently, she co-leads a Special Interest Group in Postgraduate Taught Programmes for the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) and is external examiner for the Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals programme at the University of Bristol. 

Jane is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.