Tag: Chew-Graham
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Letter to Author of Removed GET/CBT Training Program for GPs
Earlier today, I posted a blog about the decision by the Royal College of General Practice to remove from its site a training program called METRIC, which promoted the GET/CBT approach. I then sent the following letter to Carolyn Chew-Graham, a professor of general practice research at Keele University in Staffordshire and the main author…
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GP Group Removes Online GET/CBT Medical Training Program
In early 2019, I wrote about an awful online training course for general practitioners on recognizing and caring for patients diagnosed with what was referred to as CFS/ME. The module, called METRIC, promised to provide “GPs and other primary care practitioners with an overview of the presentation, diagnosis, assessment and ongoing management” of the illness.…
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Professor Chew-Graham’s Apparent Shift in Position on GET/CBT
*October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 Carolyn Chew-Graham, a professor of general practice research at Keele University in Staffordshire , is a longtime…
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More on the Royal Society of Medicine Webinar
*October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 On September 24th, the Royal Society of Medicine hosted a webinar called “Long-COVID: Understanding the shadow of…