Dr Jeremy Webb

Dr Jeremy Webb
Course Director of Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education.

Biography

I am a General Medical Practitioner and a member of the senior deanery team at the School of Clinical Medicine. I have a particular interest in supporting educators in healthcare settings and I lead the Clinical School Staff development programme, and the PG Cert component of the master’s level programmes at University of Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education, which is regularly oversubscribed.

I am primarily a clinician with over 30 years of experience, working initially as a hospital physician before moving into primary care in 1988. As a full-time GP I arranged local GP education for established doctors, and trained GP trainees until 2019.

I led on setting the primary care teaching for the Graduate Course in medicine in Cambridge and later became Deputy Director.

I developed a greater interest in medical education, completed an MA in Medical Education, and regularly taught undergraduates, graduates and other healthcare professionals. I was awarded the University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching in 2014.

I joined the Deanery team at the School of Clinical Medicine after completing my MA and have since led staff development. 

I am a Director of Studies and Tutor on the Graduate Course in Medicine and Fellow at Wolfson College. I continue to teach students weekly and have co-led several courses for medical educators in South Asia.

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal College of General practitioners and hold Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. 

Research topics

My particular interest is in the field of teaching and supporting student doctors in clinical medicine and in the workplace. I also have an interest in teaching clinical communication skills and supporting students and more junior medical staff in developing the clinical reasoning skills. As time goes on, I spend increasing amounts of time supporting medical educators (nearly all of whom are former graduates of the PG Cert) to develop their own facilitation skills and I hope to introduce pragmatic and practical solutions to teaching undergraduates and graduates based on experience as well as the medical education literature.

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