Professor Peter Murchie

Biography

Peter Murchie trained in medicine at the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1994. He completed vocational training in general practice in Northeast Scotland before embarking upon a career in academic general practice through a Cancer Research UK Primary Care Oncology Fellowship. He is currently Professor of Primary Care and lead of the Academic Primary Care Research Group, within the Institute of Applied Health Sciences University of Aberdeen.  He leads a research programme which uses clinical data to pursue two main aims: first to better understand the cancer diagnostic pathway within primary care, and second, to improve community-based cancer survivorship care. He maintains a foothold in daytime and out-of-hours general practice in Northeast Scotland.

Prizes and Awards

2014       RCGP Research Paper of the Year 2013- cancer category. The award ‘gives recognition to an                           individual or group of researchers who have undertaken and published an exceptional piece of                         research relating to general practice or primary care’

2006       Member of the original cohort of The Brisbane Initiative - an international training programme for                   primary care research leadership

2003       Cancer Research UK Research Training Fellowship in Primary Care Oncology

2001       Higher Professional Training Fellowship, NHS Education for Scotland

1998       The Maclennan Award, Northeast Scotland Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners

1993       The Lockhart Bequest, University of Aberdeen

1989       Fife Jamieson Medal, University of Aberdeen

Research Overview

My research focuses on managing cancer within primary care.

1. How is cancer diagnosed, what factors are influential, and how can the cancer diagnostic process in primary care be optimised.

2. How can primary care best support people living in the community after they have completed their primary cancer treatment.

Knowledge Exchange

Jun 2019: Cromar Future Group, MacRobert Hall, Tarland. How does living in a rural setting affect your experience of cancer services?

Sep 2017: University of Aberdeen Cancer Rally, Aberdeen. Stall - A digital vision for equitable cancer aftercare.

May 2015: Café Med and University of Aberdeen May Festival, Suttie Centre. The ASICA Intervention: digital follow-up for people that have had skin cancer.

Apr 2015: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Live demonstration of ASICA to Justine Martin, Head of Rural Evidence.

Jan 2012: Opening Public Engagement Lecture of the Cafe Med Series 2012, Suttie Centre, University of Aberdeen. Signed off with Stress.

Teaching Responsibilities

Co-ordinator of Epidemiology module (PU5538) for Online Postgraduate Certificate in Research Method

External Examiner for  MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert in Urgent Care/Rural Medicine, University of Central Lancashire

Non-course Teaching Responsibilities

Phase II and phase III student teaching in general practice consultations

Selector for medical admissions

Annual supervision of Student Selected Module (SSM) in research evidence

OSCE examiner for MBChB undergraduates