Ethics for the MRCGP and beyond

Dr John Spicer is a General Practitioner in Croydon. He is an experienced provider and commissioner of medical education: a past head of school for HEE South London and a past lecturer in medical ethics at St George’s medical School. He currently serves on the RCGP ethics committee and teaches ethics and communication skills to medical students and qualified doctors. He has written many chapters and papers and several books on medical ethics focusing on the Primary Care and Educational Settings, not least the BMA award winning Handbook of Primary Care Ethics.

Andrew Papanikitas is the current president of the RSM General Practice and Primary Healthcare Section.  He is currently a GP in central Oxford and teaches at the University of Oxford. He serves as a deputy-chair on the Royal College of General Practitioners’ ethics committee. 

He has written several books and chapters themes relating to both clinical examinations and to medical ethics, including the ‘Crash course in medical ethics and sociology.’ He peer-reviews for several journals. Dr Papanikitas’ PhD thesis, “From the classroom to the clinic: ethics education and general practice” explores ethics education in UK general practice. In January 2014 he was appointed director for the Society of Apothecaries’ Diploma Course in philosophy and ethics of healthcare - the UK's first postgraduate course in Bioethics. His last two books, on Primary care Ethics, and Marketisation and Healthcare won (respectively) best in category and commendation at the BMA medical book awards.