Professor Alex Harding
Sub Dean, Course Director M.Clin.Ed, Course Director Principles of Primary Care International
a.m.harding@exeter.ac.uk
01392 406812 /406704
RILD Building
University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Building, RD&E Hospital Wonford, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW, UK
Overview
Alex has worked as a GP in Exeter for the last twenty 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 (about 25%) runs smoothly. He is also involved in curriculum development and innovation and is course director of the Masters in Clinical Education: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/medicine/clinicaledcert/
and also Principles of Primary Care International.
http://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/cpd/primarycare/
Research
His research interests are two-fold:
1. Using qualitative approaches to investigate clinical learning in both community and hospital settings. Alex's work focusses on the use of socio-material theories.
2. Educational policy. Alex is chair of the Society for Academic Primary Care SAPC UK Heads of Teachers Group and is involved with formulating national and international policies regarding undergraduate curriculum content and a more equitable way of funding of medical student education in community settings
Qualifications
- MBBS
- BSc (Neurobiology)
- MEd
- DEd
- FRCGP
- PFHEA
- DRCOG
- DFFP
- DCH
Research
Research interests
- Clinical learning
- Curriculum innovation
- Curriculum design
- Policy development
Research projects
- Worldwide survey of healthcare education needs (The Big Idea Survey) WHO
- Worldwide curriculum and standards for undergraduate GP teaching (WONCA)
- European survey of community teaching EURACT
- European curriculum and standards for undergraduate GP teaching EURACT
- National Survey of undergraduate community teaching SAPC HOTs and RCGP
- National curriculum and standards for undergraduate GP teaching SAPC HOTs and RCGP
- Longitudinal learning study
- Doctoral Studies: Analysis of Clinical Learning Networks using Actor Network theory
Grants/Funding
- PCT
- CDEF
- PCMD
| A typology of longitudinal integrated clerkships
P Worley, I Couper, R Strasser, L Graves, BA Cummings, R Woodman, ... Medical education 50 (9), 922-932 |
92 | 2016 |
| Exposure of undergraduates to authentic GP teaching and subsequent entry to GP training: a quantitative study of UK medical schools
H Alberti, HL Randles, A Harding, RK McKinley British Journal of General Practice 67 (657), e248-e252 |
63 | 2017 |
| Provision of medical student teaching in UK general practices: a cross-sectional questionnaire study
A Harding, J Rosenthal, M Al-Seaidy, DP Gray, RK McKinley British Journal of General Practice 65 (635), e409-e417 |
39 | 2015 |
| How does an increase in undergraduate teaching load affect GP teacher motivation? A grounded theory study using data from a new medical school
A Harding, G Sweeney Education for Primary Care 24 (4), 237-243 |
10 | 2013 |
| Funding the teaching of medical students in general practice: a formula for the future?
A Harding, R McKinley, J Rosenthal, M Al-Seaidy, ... Education for Primary Care 26 (4), 215-219 |
9 | 2015 |
| The Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon Transition—Social Transformations from the Late Roman to Early Medieval Period in Northern England AD 400–700
C Loveluck, C Brooks, R Daniels, A Harding Past, Present and Future: The Archaeology of Northern England. Durham … |
9 | 2002 |
| Teaching general practice: guiding principles for undergraduate general practice curricula in UK medical schools
A Harding, K Hawthorne, J Rosenthal RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) |
8 | 2018 |
| Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) Heads of Teaching Group. Provision of medical student teaching in UK general practices: a crosssectional questionnaire study
A Harding, J Rosenthal, M Al-Seaidy, DP Gray, RK McKinley Br J Gen Pract 65 (635), e409-417 |
7 | 2015 |
| Br J Gen Pract
H Alberti, HL Randles, A Harding, RK McKinley |
6 | 2017 |
| Br J Gen Pract
A Harding, J Rosenthal, M Al-Seaidy |
6 | 2015 |
| Reduction in face-to-face GP consultations
DP Gray, K Sidaway-Lee, A Harding, P Evans British Journal of General Practice 70 (696), 328-328 |
5 | 2020 |
| ‘A rose by any other name; longitudinal (integrated) placements in the UK and Europe
A Harding Education for Primary Care 30 (5), 317-318 |
4 | 2019 |
| Actor-Network-Theory and Micro-Learning Networks.
A Harding Education for primary care: an official publication of the Association of … |
3 | 2017 |
| Joint undergraduate and postgraduate practice visits: a pilot in southwest England
A Harding, D Leeder, A Eynon, K Mattick Education for primary care: an official publication of the Association of … |
3 | 2011 |
| The strengths of general practice
D Pereira Gray, K Sidaway-Lee, P Evans, A Harding Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 111 (8), 264-264 |
2 | 2018 |
| How do medical students learn technical proficiency on hospital placements? The role of learning networks
A Harding UCL (University College London) |
1 | 2017 |
| Continuity of care is not nebulous
DP Gray, K Sidaway-Lee, M Dineen, P Evans, A Harding |
2020 | |
| Development and validation of a tool to measure belongingness as a proxy for participation in undergraduate clinical learning
R Daniels, A Harding, JR Smith, M Gomez-Cano Education for Primary Care 31 (5), 311-317 |
2020 | |
| What factors influence the introduction of a national undergraduate general practice curriculum in the UK?
SR Cole, A Harding, D Pereira Gray Education for Primary Care 31 (5), 270-280 |
2020 | |
| Building research capacity in general practice
DP Gray, K Sidaway-Lee, A Harding, P Evans |
2020 | |
| Core management data in general practice
DP Gray, K Sidaway-Lee, H Kingdon, M Dineen, P Evans, A Harding British Journal of General Practice 70 (690), 36-37 |
2020 | |
| Having a named doctor in general practice is not enough to improve continuity of care
DP Gray, K Sidaway-Lee, P Evans, A Harding bmj 367 |
2019 | |
| The strengths of general practice.
K Sidaway-Lee, P Evans, A Harding Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 111 (8), 264-264 |
2018 | |
| All I want for Christmas… is an undergraduate GP curriculum
A Harding, J Rosenthal, K Hawthorne Education for Primary Care 29 (4), 187-188 |
2018 | |
| Innovations and developments
ED Gibbons, S Scallan, S Newton, A Harding, D Leeder, AE Lewis, ... Education for Primary Care 22 (5), 339-344 |
Publications
No publications found
External Engagement and Impact
Committee/panel activities
Co-chair National Heads of Teachers Group (SAPC HOTs)
UK Representative to European Council of Academic GPs (EURACT)
Advisor to WHO
WHO representative to the coalition of SE ASia Medical Schools (SEARME)
Editorial responsibilities
Education for Primary Care
Reviewer for
Medical Education
BMJ
British Journal of General Practice
Education for Primary care
Medical Teacher
Invited lectures
Manchester, UCL, Keele, Imperial Medical Schools UK
Teaching
- QA of Community Teaching; Staff Teaching
- QA of Academic Tutors: Staff Teaching
- Humanities Teaching Delivery
- SSC Delivery
- Placement Teaching
Modules
2023/24
- HPDM103 - Teaching Practitioner
- HPDM127 - Principles of Primary Care
- HPDM127DA - Principles of Primary Care
- HPDM127Z - Principles of Primary Care
