Dr Ian Hodgins

I was born and grew up in Plymouth. My medical degree was at Kings College Medicine, London. From there I trained in Margate, becoming a single handed GP in nearby Broadstairs.

After working there for five years I moved back to Plymouth, to be near family, sea and moors.

I currently work as a general practitioner in Buckfastleigh.  I head the Clinical Assessment Panel, creating new questions for the AMK exams and am deputy to Head of Student Selected Component in Peninsular Medical School

Qualifications

MBBS (Kings College London, 1990)

Roles on external bodies

Heritage Trustee at Ford Park Cemetery.

Treasurer of Plymouth Methodist Central Hall.

I am often seen on the local history lecture circuit.

Teaching interests

Quality Improvement, Clinical Governance, Managing Change.

Global Pandemics

History of NHS

Victorian Public Health with a particular interest in prostitution.  

Research interests

Development of adaptive testing for medical students. 

Reports & invited lectures

Public Health in Victorian Plymouth (Series of lectures)

Cholera in Noss Mayo

The Darling Budds of Devonshire (Exploring the lives and legends surrounding a 19th Century family of Doctors)

Forming the NHS in Plymouth

Prostitution in Victorian Plymouth

Poisons and Poisoners in Victorian Plymouth

Conferences organised

Symposium in Victorian Prostitution

Symposium in Church Life in Victorian Plymouth

Other academic activities

Special Study Units in "Quacks, Whores, Pestilence and Poison, Public Health in Victorian Plymouth"

Special Study Units in "War and Medicine"