Welcome to the GP Sub Deanery
Supporting GPs and their Practice teams to deliver excellence in GP placements, and promote General Practice as a career
Practice Visits
All you need to know about the visit
Quality Assurance
How is quality measured, and why it matters
Practice Resources
Practical tips and guidance
Medical Schools' Allocations
How student placements are assigned
SUMDE
Understanding the payment process
Medical Students' Hub
How to get the best out of placement
The GP Sub Deanery launched in December 2024. We are committed to supporting and developing General Practitioners through strategic leadership, robust governance, and continuous improvement and innovation. Establishment of the Sub Deanery represents a tangible opportunity to support primary care undergraduate education and to place it on an equal footing with the Sub Deaneries in HSC Trusts.
Considering medical student placements in your GP surgery?
Goals
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Promote Excellence - Ensure high and consistent standards of medical education within Northern Ireland General Practice.
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- Collaborative Development - Work alongside NI GP Clinical Placement Alliance (QUB/UU/Dept of Health) colleagues and other stakeholders to develop agreed standards, tools, and processes for quality assurance in clinical placements.
- Recruitment and Co-ordination - Work towards building capacity to collate and co-ordinate the recruitment of clinical placements across the four FSU localities to meet the demands of both medical schools.
- Induction and Support - Provide induction and support for new GP tutors and practices, and ongoing professional development for current teaching practices.
- Quality Monitoring - Develop approaches to monitor and assure the quality of undergraduate medical education across Northern Ireland General Practice.
- Encourage Involvement - Encourage all GP practices in Northern Ireland to become involved in teaching undergraduate medical students.
- Promote General Practice - Encourage medical students to consider General Practice as a career through positive exposure and mentorship.
We Are Recruiting!
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Have an interest in medical education?
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- Interested in providing leadership and oversight of primary care undergraduate medical student placements?
- Interested in joining our small, friendly team?
- We wish to appoint a Western GP Locality Lead. Closing date for applications, 7 September 2025. For further info visit please click HERE
- For queries please email admin@gpsubdeanery.co.uk
GP Sub Deanery Newsletter Summer 2025
The GP Sub Deanery has published its first edition of a quarterly newsletter which contains all the latest updates on primary care undergraduate medical education. GP SubDeanery Newsletter Issue No. 1 Summer 2025
Appointment of QUB Community Module Leads
Queen’s University Belfast has recently appointed 8 GP Placement Community Module Leads (CMLs). The CMLs will be enhancing students’ clinical placement learning in General Practice for years 3,4 and 5. They will be delivering sessions (case and...
Ulster University Annual Staff Awards
Ulster University School of Medicine host an annual awards ceremony. There are 5 staff awards which can be awarded to any internal staff member or placement provider from either the MBBS or PA programme. The award categories are: Enhancing...
Dr Louise
Sands
GP Sub Dean
Dr Claire
Williamson
Locality Lead Eastern
Dr Paula Houton
Locality Lead Eastern & Module Lead
Dr Orla
Laverty
Locality Lead Northern
Dr James
McMullan
Locality Lead Southern
Vacant Post
Locality Lead Western
Dr John Glenn
Module Lead
Dr Helen Sherrey
Module Lead
Dr Jennifer Gabbie
Module Lead
Dr Aoife McCloskey
Module Lead
Dr Lynsey Adams
Module Lead
Dr Naomi Warnes
Module Lead
Vacant Post
Module Lead
Dr Laura Devine
Module Lead
Dr Mary Donnelly
Module Lead
Vacant Post
Module Lead
Operations Co-ordinators
Joanne
Bryson
Jenny
McLaughlin
Who We Work With
