Contact details
Dr Paul Booton
Director of Primary Care Education
School of Public Health
Reynolds Building
Charing Cross Campus
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 0813
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Dr Paul Booton
Dr Paul Booton is Director of Education in the Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine.
He studied as an undergraduate at the London Hospital where he took an intercalated degree in Psychology and was subsequently house officer to the Professor of Medicine. After completing his house jobs he worked as medical officer for the UN High Commission For Refugees amongst the Vietnamese "Boat People" in Hong Kong.
He spent several years in hospital medicine as a physician, before pursuing a career in General Practice.
After a year in General Practice in rural Suffolk, he returned to London as lecturer at Guy's and St. Thomas' Medical School Dept of Primary Care.
He moved to King’s to set up the first experiments teaching general medicine in general practice.
Subsequently as Undergraduate Dean he led the development of the King’s New Curriculum and its adaptation as the merged curriculum for the newly formed Guy's King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine.
He headed the development of the final "Student House Officer" year, which was a highly innovative approach to bridging the gap between undergraduate and PRHO years.
He moved to Imperial to lead Primary Care Education and is engaged in broadening and deepening Primary Care's engagement in the undergraduate curriculum.
