Dr Lynsay Crawford

  • Senior Clinical University Lecturer (General Practice & Primary Care)

email: Lynsay.Crawford@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

School of Health and Wellbeing, General Practice & Primary Care, Clarice Pears Building, Gilmorehill Campus, Glasgow, G12 8TB

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854

Biography

Lynsay Crawford is a GP and Senior Clinical Lecturer.

She graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1991 and completed GP training in 1995. She was a GP Partner in Possilpark, a very deprived community in Glasgow, from 1998 to 2018, before moving to Forth Valley where she is currently a GP Partner in Bonnybridge.

She was a Vocational Studies tutor for eight years before her appointment as the Deputy Director of Vocational Studies in 2014. In 2020 she was appointed the Director of Vocational Studies and is currently involved in teaching and assessment across all years, student GP electives, and SSCs (student selected components). Lynsay has a particular interest in the ‘Patient Voice’ and learning from people with lived experience.

In 2020 Lynsay was appointed the Lead for the COMET programme. COMET (Community Orientated Medical Experience Track) is Glasgow’s innovative optional GP-focussed curriculum which began in 2019 and gives selected medical students an enhanced and immersive experience of General Practice.

Lynsay is involved in Widening Participation to medicine via Medic Insight and the REACH programme. She has been on the steering group of GPs at the Deep End for 10 years and has a strong interest in the social determinants of health and health inequalities.

In 2021, she became a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, in recognition of her contribution to general practice.

In 2022, Dr Crawford completed her Masters in Medical Education at the University of Dundee. Her dissertation focus was on the factors influencing students to apply for the COMET programme and choose general practice as a career. She is involved in the supervision of Masters students on the Health Professions Education programme.

Since 2022, Lynsay has been the medical adviser, and a permanent member, on the Fitness to Study Panels across the University, which focuses on student welfare and seeks to support students encountering challenges which affect their ability to study and engage with wider University life.

Lynsay is an external examiner for Bristol Medical School.

 

Research interests

  • Medical Education
  • Lived Experience in Medical Education
  • General Practice careers, recruitment and retention
  • Health Inequalities and the Social Determinants of Health
  • Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Publications

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Number of items: 19.

2025

Dickson, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-605X, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Williamson, Andrea E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8981-9068 (2025) Pathways of Hope: Co-Creating a Public Information Comic with a Recovery Community. [Website]

Dickson, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-605X, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854, Williamson, Andrea E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8981-9068 and Humanising Healthcare (2025) Pathways of Hope - Lived Experience of Drug + Alcohol Dependence, and Recovery. A Public Information Comic. Documentation. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.361962).

Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Dickson, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-605X (2025) Comics and Conversation: Capturing Narratives of Addiction and Recovery to Create a Community Graphic Memoir. Society for Academic Primary Care Annual Scientific Meeting, Cardiff, Wales, 9-11 July 2025. (Unpublished)

Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Corr, Lottie (2025) Graphic Medicine: Comics, Health and the Power of Stories. NADEGS Annual Conference ( 23rd-24th January 2025, Carnoustie, 23-24 January 2025. (Unpublished)

2024

Brown, K., Noonan, Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2636-8156 and Crawford, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) Delivering Patient Centred Care; Inclusive Communication Skills Teaching at Glasgow Medical School. The International Association for Health Professions Education (AMEE) International Conference 2024, Basel, Switzerland, 25-28 August 2024.

Jobst, Hugo, Anderson, Seonaid, Houston, Allan and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) Conversation café: lived experience in undergraduate addictions teaching. Medical Education, 58(5), pp. 625-626. (doi: 10.1111/medu.15329) (PMID:38497222)

Politis, Marina, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854, Jani, Bhautesh D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Lewsey, Jim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3811-8165, McAllister, David A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-1764, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 and Hanlon, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5828-3934 (2024) An observational analysis of frailty in combination with loneliness or social isolation and their association with socioeconomic deprivation, hospitalisation and mortality among UK Biobank participants. Scientific Reports, 14, 7258. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-57366-7) (PMID:38538751) (PMCID:PMC10973409)

Brown, Katie, Yeoman, Lynsey, Rowland, Abigail and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) Incorporating Quality Improvement into the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum – Ideas for Change. ADEGS 2024, Carnoustie, Scotland, 25-26 Jan 2024.

Rowland, Abigail and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) A Lifesaving Quality Improvement Project - Investigating the Practicality of the Emergency Medicine Bag in a Primary Care Setting. ADEGS 2024, Carnoustie, UK, 25-26 Jan 2024. (Unpublished)

Brown, Katie, Noonan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2636-8156 and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) Delivering Patient Centred Care; Advanced Communication Skills Teaching. NADEGS Annual Conference, Carnoustie, Scotland, 25-26 Jan 2024.

Brown, Katie, Yeoman, Lynsey, Rowland, Abi and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) Incorporating Quality Improvement into the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum - Ideas for Change. NADEGS Annual Conference, Carnoustie, UK, 25-26 Jan 2024.

2023

Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2023) General Practice - It's Just Sitting Down! Perceptions of a General Practice-focussed Curriculum: A Qualitative Study of First-year Medical Students. ADEGS 2023, Carnoustie, UK, 19-20 Jan 2023. (Unpublished)

2022

Politis, Marina, Brown, Megan E.L., Huser, Camille A.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3785-7556, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Pope, Lindsey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-9616 (2022) “I wouldn’t know what to do with the breasts”: the impact of patient gender on medical student confidence and comfort in clinical skills. Education for Primary Care, 33(6), pp. 316-326. (doi: 10.1080/14739879.2022.2129460) (PMID:36443928)

McIntyre, Kirsty R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3224-7043 and Crawford, Lynsay E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2022) Outcomes for group working: contextualising group work within professionalism frameworks. Medical Education, 56(5), p. 551. (doi: 10.1111/medu.14781) (PMID:35199883)

2021

Corr, Lottie, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854, Pope, Lindsey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-9616, McCoy, Amy and Goh, Janelle (2021) A creative case study: Enhancing student engagement with professionalism through graphic Medicine. In: Tasler, Nathalie, O'Brien, Rachelle and Spiers, Alex (eds.) Being Creative in the Face of Adversity - Annual #creativeHE Collection 2021. Creativity for Learning in Higher Education community (#creativeHE), pp. 82-86.

2020

Huser, Camille ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3785-7556, O'Connor, Lewis, Pishia, Michaela, Hammond, Jennifer, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Britten, Amanda ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2431-7849 (2020) Student-Staff Partnerships to Enhance Assessment and Feedback. AMEE 2020, Online, 7-9 Sept 2020.

Grom, Iain, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Pope, Lindsey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-9616 (2020) Truth Told in Jest? Professional Value Confessions at the End of a Medical Curriculum. 13th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 25 Aug 2020.

2019

Bikker, Annemieke and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2019) Communication skills. In: Staten, Adam and Staten, Paul (eds.) Practical General Practice: Guidelines for Effective Clinical Management [7th Edition]. Elsevier: Edinburgh, pp. 11-18. ISBN 9780702055522

Grom, Iain, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Pope, Lindsey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-9616 (2019) First Year Medical Students' Understanding of Professionalism. 9th National Scottish Medical Education Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 09-10 May 2019.

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Number of items: 19.

Articles

Jobst, Hugo, Anderson, Seonaid, Houston, Allan and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) Conversation café: lived experience in undergraduate addictions teaching. Medical Education, 58(5), pp. 625-626. (doi: 10.1111/medu.15329) (PMID:38497222)

Politis, Marina, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854, Jani, Bhautesh D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Lewsey, Jim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3811-8165, McAllister, David A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-1764, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 and Hanlon, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5828-3934 (2024) An observational analysis of frailty in combination with loneliness or social isolation and their association with socioeconomic deprivation, hospitalisation and mortality among UK Biobank participants. Scientific Reports, 14, 7258. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-57366-7) (PMID:38538751) (PMCID:PMC10973409)

Politis, Marina, Brown, Megan E.L., Huser, Camille A.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3785-7556, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Pope, Lindsey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-9616 (2022) “I wouldn’t know what to do with the breasts”: the impact of patient gender on medical student confidence and comfort in clinical skills. Education for Primary Care, 33(6), pp. 316-326. (doi: 10.1080/14739879.2022.2129460) (PMID:36443928)

McIntyre, Kirsty R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3224-7043 and Crawford, Lynsay E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2022) Outcomes for group working: contextualising group work within professionalism frameworks. Medical Education, 56(5), p. 551. (doi: 10.1111/medu.14781) (PMID:35199883)

Book Sections

Corr, Lottie, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854, Pope, Lindsey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-9616, McCoy, Amy and Goh, Janelle (2021) A creative case study: Enhancing student engagement with professionalism through graphic Medicine. In: Tasler, Nathalie, O'Brien, Rachelle and Spiers, Alex (eds.) Being Creative in the Face of Adversity - Annual #creativeHE Collection 2021. Creativity for Learning in Higher Education community (#creativeHE), pp. 82-86.

Bikker, Annemieke and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2019) Communication skills. In: Staten, Adam and Staten, Paul (eds.) Practical General Practice: Guidelines for Effective Clinical Management [7th Edition]. Elsevier: Edinburgh, pp. 11-18. ISBN 9780702055522

Research Reports or Papers

Dickson, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-605X, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854, Williamson, Andrea E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8981-9068 and Humanising Healthcare (2025) Pathways of Hope - Lived Experience of Drug + Alcohol Dependence, and Recovery. A Public Information Comic. Documentation. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.361962).

Conference or Workshop Item

Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Dickson, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-605X (2025) Comics and Conversation: Capturing Narratives of Addiction and Recovery to Create a Community Graphic Memoir. Society for Academic Primary Care Annual Scientific Meeting, Cardiff, Wales, 9-11 July 2025. (Unpublished)

Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Corr, Lottie (2025) Graphic Medicine: Comics, Health and the Power of Stories. NADEGS Annual Conference ( 23rd-24th January 2025, Carnoustie, 23-24 January 2025. (Unpublished)

Brown, K., Noonan, Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2636-8156 and Crawford, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) Delivering Patient Centred Care; Inclusive Communication Skills Teaching at Glasgow Medical School. The International Association for Health Professions Education (AMEE) International Conference 2024, Basel, Switzerland, 25-28 August 2024.

Brown, Katie, Yeoman, Lynsey, Rowland, Abigail and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) Incorporating Quality Improvement into the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum – Ideas for Change. ADEGS 2024, Carnoustie, Scotland, 25-26 Jan 2024.

Rowland, Abigail and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) A Lifesaving Quality Improvement Project - Investigating the Practicality of the Emergency Medicine Bag in a Primary Care Setting. ADEGS 2024, Carnoustie, UK, 25-26 Jan 2024. (Unpublished)

Brown, Katie, Noonan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2636-8156 and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) Delivering Patient Centred Care; Advanced Communication Skills Teaching. NADEGS Annual Conference, Carnoustie, Scotland, 25-26 Jan 2024.

Brown, Katie, Yeoman, Lynsey, Rowland, Abi and Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2024) Incorporating Quality Improvement into the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum - Ideas for Change. NADEGS Annual Conference, Carnoustie, UK, 25-26 Jan 2024.

Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 (2023) General Practice - It's Just Sitting Down! Perceptions of a General Practice-focussed Curriculum: A Qualitative Study of First-year Medical Students. ADEGS 2023, Carnoustie, UK, 19-20 Jan 2023. (Unpublished)

Huser, Camille ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3785-7556, O'Connor, Lewis, Pishia, Michaela, Hammond, Jennifer, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Britten, Amanda ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2431-7849 (2020) Student-Staff Partnerships to Enhance Assessment and Feedback. AMEE 2020, Online, 7-9 Sept 2020.

Grom, Iain, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Pope, Lindsey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-9616 (2020) Truth Told in Jest? Professional Value Confessions at the End of a Medical Curriculum. 13th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 25 Aug 2020.

Grom, Iain, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Pope, Lindsey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-9616 (2019) First Year Medical Students' Understanding of Professionalism. 9th National Scottish Medical Education Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 09-10 May 2019.

Website

Dickson, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-605X, Crawford, Lynsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-0854 and Williamson, Andrea E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8981-9068 (2025) Pathways of Hope: Co-Creating a Public Information Comic with a Recovery Community. [Website]

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Supervision

Supervisor for students on the BSc Clinical Medicine specialist course Global Health primary care

Supervisor for Masters students on the Health Professions Education programme

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

  • Director of Vocational Studies (clinical skills, communication skills, professionalism, holistic care, ethics, and coursework)
  • COMET Lead
  • Supports Communication Skills, GP SSCs and Electives
  • Established the Clinical Case Discussions in 1st and 2nd year MBChB

Postgraduate teaching

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2021: Fellowship (RCGP)
  • 2024: Senior Fellow (Recognising Excellence in Teaching)
  • 2024: Exceptional Contribution to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences)
  • 2024: NES NHS Medical Directorate Awards, runner up in the EDI category (NHS Education for Scotland)
  • 2024: NES NHS Medical Directorate Awards commendation in the Inspirational Role Model category (NHS Education for Scotland)
  • 2025: NES NHS Annual Review of Undergraduate Medical Education letter of commendation for outstanding contribution to the medical school curriculum (NHS Education for Scotland)

Professional & learned societies

  • 2015: Member of the Steering Group, GPs at the Deep End
  • 2020: Member, Academy of Medical Educators
  • 1995: Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners
  • 2025: Member, Faculty Homelessness and Inclusion Health
  • 2024: Faculty, Consultation Skills that Matter for Surgeons (CoSMoS)