Dr Trevor Thompson

National Teaching Fellow 2015 Trevor is an inner-city GP and Head of Teaching at the University of Bristol's Centre for Academic Primary Care. He is currently engaged in a wide-ranging reform of medical education at Bristol, heading up work on vertical themes including that of 'Medical Humanities and Whole Person Care'. His passion is for educational interventions that inform, challenge and inspire. When not at work he is at play with boats, bikes and books. Trevor is a GP partner at Wellspring, a multi-cultural practice set within an innovative healthy living centre. He was seminal in the creation of the centres community cookery scheme - Kitchen on Prescription. His first love is teaching but he also enjoys the intellectual challenge of research and the rigours and privileges of being a family physician. His motto is learning is fun . Having completed a PhD in 2005 he designed and co-directed Bristols Medical Humanities intercalation programme. In 2012 he co-authored the book Sustainable Healthcare which explores the part medicine can play in easing our current environmental predicaments. His work on establishing a curriculum for sustainability in healthcare was recently published by The Lancet and taken up by the GMC. Trevors main claim to fame in the medical school is as co-founder of the 'Whole Person Care' (WPC) vertical theme and the award-winning WPC course for first-year students, which includes Bristol's notorious 'compulsory creativity'. Evidence of emerging artistic work can be viewed on the website he helped to create at outofourheads.net. Side projects include pioneering with the NUS a pro-sustainability accreditation scheme for General Practice called 'Green Impact for Health' and pioneering a new optional course for medical students called 'Optimum Health in Later Life'. He is a founder of Bristol's 'Healthy City Week' running for the first time in October 2015. He is devoted to public engagement, recent talks have included winsome titles like 'The Green Death and Other Necessities' in which he explored the resource and human impacts of our medical care at the end of life.