Immediate CPD prompts
These templates*, associated with all articles, prompt drafting of personal learning, reflection and planning.
Save your record into your personal development folder on your device or cloud storage system.
*Adobe fillable PDFs. Adobe reader needed for iPad
Your case report would need to be around 1,500 words long, include a brief review of the literature to put the case in context, and be fully referenced in the Vancouver style.
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Last revised 12/04/2016
| Editor Corinne Short BSC (Hons) | Executive Editor |
| Editorial Advisers | Review panel of GPs with a special interest* |
| Dr Phillip Bland BA BM BCh MRCGP DRCOG Former GP with an interest in mental health, Dalton-in-Furness, UK | Dr Chris Barclay MB ChB FRCOG, GP, Suffolk GP with an interest in O&G, Suffolk |
| Dr Peter Saul MB ChB DCH DRCOG FRCGP GP Wrexham and Associate GP Dean for North Wales, UK | Dr Phillip Bland BA BM BCh MRCGP DRCOG Former GP with an interest in mental health, Dalton-in-Furness, UK |
| Dr Matthew Lockyer BSc MB BS DCH DRCOG DFFP MRCGP GP with an interest in diabetes, Suffolk, UK | |
| Dr Richard Ma MSc MRCGP DFSRH DCH DRCOG DipGUM GP with an interest in sexual health and NIHR Research Fellow, Imperial College, London, UK | |
| Dr Peter Saul MB ChB DCH DRCOG FRCGP GP with an interest in respiratory disease, Wrexham and Associate GP Dean for North Wales | |
| Dr Peter Savill BSc MBBS PGDipCard GPwSI Cardiology, Southampton, UK | |
| Dr Jez Thompson MB ChB MSc MRCGP RCGP Regional Lead Substance Misuse, GPwSI Substance Misuse, Leeds | |
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