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The Undergraduate Primary Care Education Unit provides training and refresher courses for new and existing GP tutors. For more information about our placements and teaching opportunities, please see the Undergraduate Primary Care Placements page. Our courses are free for existing tutors or those who commit to teaching our students in future. 

TaCTIC (Training Course for Teachers at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College)

This interactive 4-hour online course offers a mix of educational theory and practical guidance to support you to develop your teaching skills in practice.

The course is open to all GPs, trainees and other healthcare professionals who are teaching our ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ undergraduate medical students in a community or primary care setting. The course is mandatory for those intending to teach ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ medical students.

After watching the pre-course video, you can further develop your teaching skills more formally by booking onto one of our TaCTIC course dates.

• Wednesday, 6th May 2026 - 9am-1pm - This course is now fully booked
• Wednesday, 8th July 2026 - 9am-1pm - This course is now fully booked
• Wednesday, 12th August 2026 - 9am-1pm -
• Wednesday, 7th October 2026 - 9am-1pm -
• Wednesday, 9th December 2026 - 9am-1pm -

Advanced Skills for Teachers at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College (ASTIC)

Existing ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ GP tutors can keep up-to-date with current teaching approaches and connect with a community of educators through our free Additional Skills courses.

Supporting Students Experiencing Discrimination:

In this interactive workshop we will develop our awareness of discrimination and its various forms and consider how this may impact students on placement. 
Using real-life scenarios, we will explore various approaches to better supporting students on placement. We will also share information and useful resources on support mechanisms available.

• • Facilitators: Dr Sian Powell, Michael Cole and Dr Farzaneh Sanei
  • Coming soon - watch this space

Lunch & Learn for GP Tutors

Trauma-Informed Teaching in Practice – Supporting students. Supporting patients. Supporting yourself.

Join us for an interactive online Lunch & Learn session with Dr Jonathon Tomlinson exploring how trauma and deprivation influence teaching and learning in general practice, and how we can better support medical students navigating challenging consultations.  

Bring your lunch, your questions and your experiences and leave with practical and compassionate strategies to enhance student learning. 

• • Tuesday, 12th May 2026 - 12.45 - 1.30pm - online –

Jonathon Tomlinson is a GP and educator at the Lawson Practice in Hoxton, East London. He has been at the same practice for over 20 years. His clinical interests include chronic pain, addiction, and other situations that defy protocolisation. He is an advocate for continuity of care and relationship-centred practice. He works with Flying Child CIC to give side-by-side teaching about the impact of Child Sexual Abuse. He is a trustee for the Centre for Health and the Public Interest, the London ACEs Hub, and Shoreditch Trust. At weekends he enjoys art, nature and cycling. He is the father of teenage boys.  

Online Coaching Skills Courses

We have two freely accessible online courses (MOOCs) on coaching skills.

is a short course on the EdX platform that explores how you can use solution-oriented coaching skills and approaches in an education context to hold more empowering conversations with learners.

is a short course on the Coursera platform that explores key principles and skills of health coaching and how you can use these to enable more person-centred conversations, empowering patients to identify and work towards their health and wellbeing goals.