Janushana Sutharsan

I am Janushana, a third-year medical student, and I am standing for position of Publicity Officer for GP Society. I am interested in becoming a GP Society as GPs are usually the first point of contact for patients and are able to build a long-term rapport and provide continuity of care.

Currently, I am Publicity Officer for both LMAP Society and Paediatric Society and I am also the Secretary for ICSM Teddy Bear Hospital. This has taught me how to handle different roles and organise my time effectively. This has also given me a lot of experience designing posts on Canva and getting creative with my posts whilst publicising all the events.

As GP Society’s Publicity Officer, I would like to restart previous ideas such as SBAs Saturdays so students can have a go at exam style questions whilst also boosting interaction in the social media pages. Another idea I had is to have talks from various staff from the multidisciplinary team within the general practice such as social prescribers, physiotherapists etc. so students can have an insight into how working in a GP will be like and the roles and responsibilities of each member in the MDT. In addition to that, having a mentorship programme would be beneficial for students interesting in GP to get some guidance and learn more about the career.