Join a PRIME team

With the success of courses and programmes our teaching is in increasing demand. We have a database of excellent tutors but more are needed - particularly specialists, faculty trainers and those who can travel at relatively short notice or spend longer periods of time overseas.

It is a great privilege to meet enthusiastic and committed healthcare professionals and other colleagues in different cultures who have a vision for improving health care in their country. Often they are trying to do this in the face of very limited resources, indifference or even hostility. The presence and input of ‘international experts’ is usually a great encouragement to them, and repeated visits enable us to see what progress they are making and signal an on-going interest from supportive overseas colleagues in their struggles.

"Introducing new ideas and learning methods to under-resourced colleagues, modelling learner-centred approaches to teaching and seeing eyes light up with enthusiasm is very exciting. Facilitating the development of doctors and others serving the poor in isolated rural situations, and so hopefully improving health care for people in the real, ‘developing,’ world, is very rewarding." PRIME tutor

Don't wait to be asked - volunteer

Registered tutors receive regular 'tutor opportunities bulletins' which give details of forthcoming trips. There are also opportunities for training and further development including regular tutor training conferences, some in exciting locations; and a brand new tutor manual with material collected from PRIME workshops over the last eight years and specially designed for PRIME tutors preparing to teach a course centred on whole person medicine.

To be a full member of a teaching team you must meet PRIME's Tutor Criteria, but some teams may also include observers who are normally healthcare professionals new to education, juniors or students.

"Absolutely amazing! It has improved my confidence and social skills by leaps and bounds. I count myself extremely lucky to have had the chance to do this as a student and to have met other inspirational students. It also gave me the chance to visit somewhere I would never have thought about visiting otherwise. It was fantastic to see close to 200 students turn up voluntarily... at the weekend... to hear about palliative care." Medical student following her first experience as a PRIME Observer.

Please read our Tutor Criteria or contact us to find out more about joining a PRIME team.