Dr Gordon Linklater
Consultant in Palliative Medicine (NHSG)
MBChB FRCP MMEd FHEA
Personal DetailsEmail: g.t.linklater@abdn.ac.uk Foundation Programme Director (NES) |
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Research Interests
Quality of life, Staff support
Current Research
- Education and support needs of FY1s involved with patient death
- Individual Quality of Life in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Teaching Responsibilities
Medical Undergraduate
- Medical Ethics and Law theme leader
- Palliative care
- Personal and Professional Development
Medical Postgraduate
- Foundation Programme palliative care sessions and e-module development
- Symptom control sessions - GPs, Hospital physicians
Multidisciplinary
- Roxburghe House teaching sessions
- Marie Curie
- RGU
- Palliative care courses (Inverness, Shetland)
Professional Membership
- Association of Palliative Medicine
- North British Pain Association
- Association for the Study of Medical Education
External Responsibilities
- Foundation Programme Director (NHS Education Scotland)
- Palliative Care representative on NBPA council
Selected Publications
Linklater GT. Promoting patient-centredness in undergraduate palliative care education. Medical Education 2008;42:1126-1127
Linklater G, Lawton S, Macaulay L, Carroll D. Palliative patients with pain: Why the family physician phones a specialist advice line. International Journal on Disability and Human Development 2009;8:21-24
Lawton S, Linklater G, Denholm M, MacAulay L. Care of the dying: advice for primary care nurses. Journal of Community Nursing 2009;23:4-8