Dr Louise Hammersley MBBS, MRCGP, MSc, DCH, DRCOG, DFFP

Dr Louise Hammersley

Birmingham Medical School
Associate Clinical Professor for Clinical Reasoning
Senior Clinical Tutor (Community Based Medicine)

Dr Hammersley works with the Community Based Medicine (CBM) team, with responsibility for content of the Year Three CBM course and related assessments. She also provides support to the GP tutors who deliver the course in the community setting and students with academic queries related to the course. She has an interest in clinical reasoning theory.

Qualifications

  • Modular GP trainers course (Keele, 2016)
  • Certificate in Diabetes Care
  • MSc in Primary Care (Birmingham, 2003)
  • MRCGP with merit (2000)
  • DFFP (1999)
  • DRCOG (1999)
  • DCH (1998)
  • MBBS (Newcastle, 1994)

Biography

Dr Hammersley did her undergraduate and GP training in the North East of England, moving to the West Midlands in 2000. She initially worked part-time in the Department of Primary Care and part-time as a clinical assistant in General Practice, but left to take up a GP Partnership in 2003. 

She returned to the University in January 2014 and now splits her time between her University role and clinical practice. She lives in Sutton Coldfield and is Mum to two teenage children and two Jack Russells.

Teaching

Lectures supporting the Year Three CBM course, delivered as part of the Year Three introductory lecture series.

Supporting the delivery of Year Five clinical communications small group sessions when required.

Other activities

Supporting the assessments for the wider MbChB by essay marking (Year One CBM and Ethics and Law), examining and invigilating.

Salaried GP at the Sutton Coldfield Group Practice, with a special interest in women’s health and contraception.

GP trainer.

Publications

Review Article Hammersley L, Drinkwater C. The prevention of psychological morbidity following perinatal death. British Journal of General Practice 1997, 47, 583-586

HTA Report Mant J, McManus RJ, Oakes RAL, Delaney BC, Barton PM, Deeks JJ, Hammersley RL, Davis RC, Hobbs FCR. A systematic review of the urgent assessment of chest pain in general practice and the most cost-effective method of investigation of recurrent chest pain. July 2003.

Book Chapter Hypertension and Stroke in Ethnicity and Primary Care (2003). Ed Joe Kai. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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