GREYFRIARS MEDICAL CENTRE
GP TRAINING
We currently have three Registrars:
- Dr Cassandra Ritchie graduated in 2004 from Aberdeen University. She has worked in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee and Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary.
- Dr Sabarirajan Kannapiran graduated in 2001 in India and has worked in various hospital training jobs in the UK since 2005. He has 3 years of experience in Accident & Emergency Departments, including in Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary.
- Dr Pranav
Patients are welcome to make an appointment to see any of the Registrars in the same way as any of the other doctors once initial induction training is successfully completed. Their week is a busy one with regular teaching sessions including tutorials, attendance at various clinics, a weekly half day release post-graduate meeting, alongside the best possible education - working with and listening to patients. The Dumfries & Galloway Vocational Training Scheme is run by the associate advisor in General Practice, with the overall framework co-ordinated by Professor Stuart Murray and his team at the NHS Education for Scotland. Over the years their innovations and ideas have served to drive GP Vocational Training forwards with many of the current national standards of teaching and assessment largely adopted from the Department's original plans.
Video assessment
Part of the training will be in communication and consulting skills and some patients will be invited to participate in video recorded consultations. These are real live surgeries but any patients involved will be given prior notice of them and will be asked to consent to their being video recorded. If anyone invited would prefer not to be filmed, the camera will be switched off without any hesitation or question and, even if they had originally consented but afterwards changed their minds, any recording will be erased.
The recorded consultations are an extremely useful means of analysing how doctors communicate with their patients. This gives us an insight as to how we can improve our work and is also an opportunity to assess how well we perform. As a result, some of the recordings will be used for formal assessment of a Registrar's work. All recordings will be respected as being confidential and will only ever be viewed by professionals who have committed themselves to fully respect the patient's rights to confidentiality.
Previous registrars (trainees in the old days)
Greyfriars
- Sabarirajan Kannapira
- Cassandra Ritchie
- Lalitha Papineni
- Madhavi Guntamukkala
- Chandra Kanneganti
- Richard Holmes
- Mary Butler
- Cormac Macauley
- Gerald Baptist (2000)
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- Charles Holt
- Rob Walter
- Rupert Lui
- Sarah Elsender
- Paul Reed
- Aileen Buchanan
- Catriona Buchan
- Andrew Baird
- Caroline Cormie
- Keith Grant
- Lucy Marr
- Kate Stephen
- Linda Tulloch
- Susan Foote
- David Innes
- Rena Young
- John Kennedy
- Jane Gordon
- Peter Hutchison (1979)
- Robin Pearson
- Jim Thomson
- Stella Anderson
- Rod Tweedie
- Jim Lunny
- Peter McWatt (1972)
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- Gerald Baptist
- John Henderson
- Margo Donnachie
- Diana Reed
- Jim Hanrahan
- Heather Lucas
- Alexa Barton
- Diana Westwell
- Andrew Fox
- Mike Morris
- Alec Porteous
- Fiona Robinson
- Neil Kennedy
- Jane Gall
- Alec McLellan
- Craig Brown
- Helen Powell (1978)
List may well be incomplete - if there's anyone out there we've forgotten to include, please accept our apologies and let us know.