Early Career Research Prize for Eefje de Bont
Eefje de Bont, PhD candidate and GP trainee at the Department of Family Medicine, was awarded the Early Career Research Prize from the Society for Academic Primary Care.
The prize was granted during the South West Regional Conference 2017, which was held 23-24 March 2017 at the University of Oxford, UK.
Eefje received the prize for her abstract ‘An illness-focussed interactive booklet to optimise management and medication for childhood fever and infections in out-of-hours primary care: a cluster randomised trial’.
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