position: Medical Student
Jonathan ("Jonty") Eaton-Hart is a medical student at Edinburgh Medical School. Jonty has a special interest in rural General Practice and expedition medicine. During his Primary Care BMedSci, he researched how the working lives of GPs in Scotland compare between rural and non-rural areas working with Professors Stewart Mercer and John Gillies. He was the secretary of the Edinburgh University Remote and Rural Medicine Society from 2021-22.
position: Honorary Professor of General Practice
Rural GP 28 years now Hon Professor of general practice, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh Honorary Professor of general practice, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews. Senior Adviser, Global Health Academy Co-Director University of Edinburgh Compassion initiative https://www.ed.ac.uk/global-health/compassion https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Gillies4 Twitter: @JohnGillies6
position: Professor of Primary Care and Multimorbidity
Stewart Mercer is Professor of Primary Care and Multimorbidity at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a GP. He is internationally recognised for his work in the inverse care law, multimorbidity, and the importance of empathy in primary care consultations.
Creating positive early rural placements in medical education
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Discharge against medical advice in rural and remote emergency departments
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Retention of early-career GPs as independent specialists in former training practices
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Rural GP Association of Scotland (RGPAS) Annual Conference #RGPAS24, 15–17 November 2024, Inverness, Scotland
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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