Ayres, Richard - Plymouth University

个人简介

Qualifications MB ChB, MD, MMed (Dist), FHEA, MRCP,MRCGP I have had a pretty eclectic career in medicine. Having completed a very traditional medical course at the University of Edinburgh and then trained in general practice, I went to Uganda, East Africa and spent 8 years doing everything from general medicine and surgery to setting up comprehensive primary health care. Latterly I spent much time establishing a Leprosy control programme for the West Nile district that brought care and rehabilitation to nearly 10,000 patients. Throughout this time I was involved in education at all levels from village health workers to doctors and became interested in how best to teach the wide range of knowledge, skills and attitudes needed - and indeed in what the role of health professionals was in a very different cultural context. Having returned to UK, I worked back in primary care but also updated my general medical training. I took and passed the membership exam of the Royal College of Physicians and then undertook and completed an MD at the University of Edinburgh, based on my primary care research into access to GPs for marginalized groups (including teenagers). By then I was working as Undergraduate tutor for North Devon, arranging student attachments in both primary and secondary care for medical students (at that time mostly from the University of Bristol). I developed a web-based system that was used by students to choose and tailor their educational experience and this became the basis for my Masters thesis for the University of Dundee M Med programme, which I passed with distinction. I then moved to Plymouth to join the new Peninsula Medical School and also to work as medical adviser to a government funded community development project based in Devonport - one of the most deprived communities in The S West. At PMS I became involved in the Postgraduate training programme, helping to set up the Masters in Clinical Education and then Masters programmes in Community Public Health and Environment and Human Health. In the undergraduate programme I ran special study units and Medical Humanities teaching I now work as a GP in Devonport in an academic practice set up as a collaboration between the University of Plymouth and a social enterprise called Plymouth Community Healthcare. The aim is to transform health in Devonport (the highest deprivation neighbourhood in Plymouth) through holistic medical care, combined with action on the social determinants of health. This is combined with teaching students from several disciplines and research especially into health inequalities.

研究领域

Community Development, Health Inequalities, Medical Humanities, Exercise and Health, Primary/Secondary Care interface

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Thompson TP, Greaves CJ, Ayres R, Aveyard P, Warren FC, Byng R, Taylor RS, Campbell JL, Ussher M & Green C 2016 'An Exploratory Analysis of the Smoking and Physical Activity Outcomes From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Exercise Assisted Reduction to Stop Smoking Intervention in Disadvantaged Groups' NICOTINE & TOBACCO RESEARCH 18, (3) 289-297 Author Site , DOI PEARL Thompson TP, Greaves CJ, Ayres R, Aveyard P, Warren FC, Byng R, Taylor RS, Campbell JL, Ussher M & Michie S 2016 'Factors associated with study attrition in a pilot randomised controlled trial to explore the role of exercise-assisted reduction to stop (EARS) smoking in disadvantaged groups' TRIALS 17, Author Site , DOI Ayres R, Stevens S & Regan de Bere S 2016 'Getting real in the community: Evaluating the “making a difference” interdisciplinary social engagement project' MedEDPublish , DOI PEARL Williamson AE, Ayres R, Allen J & Macleod U 2015 'Core intended learning outcomes for tackling health inequalities in undergraduate medicine' BMC Med Educ 15, Author Site , DOI Thompson TP, Greaves CJ, Ayres R, Aveyard P, Warren FC & Byng R 2015 'Lessons learned from recruiting socioeconomically disadvantaged smokes into a pilot randomized controlled trial to explore the role of Exercise Assisted Reduction then Stop (EARS) smoking' Trials 16, , DOI PEARL Taylor AH, Thompson TP, Greaves C, Taylor RS, Green C, Warren F, Kandiyali F, Aveyard P, Ayres R & Byng R 2014 'A pilot randomized trial to assess the methods and procedures for evaluating the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Exercise Assisted Reduction then Stop (EARS) among disadvantaged smokers' HTA Final Report , DOI Ayres R 2013 'Reconstructing medical practice' CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH 23, (2) 242-243 Author Site , DOI Thompson TP, Aveyard P, Ayres R, Taylor R, Warren F, Campbell J, Byng R & Ussher M 2012 'Strategies to recruit hard-to-reach smokers into Exercise Assisted Reduction then Stop (EARS): a pragmatic pilot randomised trial' The Lancet 380, (S73) , DOI