School of Medicine

I was appointed Professor of Academic General Practice at Keele in 2007.

I completed my clinical and academic training in N Ireland before my appointment as a SL in General Practice in Leicester.

I have conducted research in asthma, chronic pain, the last year of life, the health care consultation and health services provision using a wide range of methodologies from qualitative approaches to RCTs. My current research focuses on:

• Assessment and enhancement of the skills of health professionals
• Development of reliable and valid measures of skills
• Development of reliable and valid patient report measures

Evaluation of educational and training

Peer reviewed papers

• McKinley RK, Roberts C. Patient satisfaction with out of hours primary medical care. Qual Health Care 2001;10:23-8.
• McKinley RK, Fraser RC, Baker R. Model for directly assessing and improving clinical competence and performance in revalidation of clinicians. BMJ 2001;322:712-715.
• Thomas M, McKinley RK, Freeman E, Foy C. Prevalence of dysfunctional breathing in patients treated for asthma in primary care. BMJ 2001;322:1098-1100.
• Dean P, McKinley RK, Farooqi A. Audit in general practice: how much and how complete? Scandinavian Journal of Primary Care 2001;19:101-102.
• French DP, McKinley RK, Hastings AM. General practitioner stress and patient satisfaction associated with on-call periods: a small scale exploratory study. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Care 2001;19:170-173.
• McKinley RK, Manku-Scott TK, Adams S, Stevenson K. Meeting patient expectations of care: the major determinant of satisfaction with out of hours primary medical care? Fam Pract 2002;19:333-338.
• McKinley RK, Dean P, Farooqi A. Reactions of volunteer general practitioners to educational assessment of their consultation performance: a qualitative study. Education for Primary Care 2003;14:293-301.
• Thomas, M, McKinley RK, Freeman E, Foy C, Prodger P. Breathing retraining for dysfunctional breathing in asthma. A randomised controlled trial. Thorax 2003;58:110-115.
• Stokes TN, Dixon-Woods M, Windridge K, McKinley RK. Patients' accounts of being removed from their general practitioner's list: qualitative study. BMJ 2003;326:1316-1320.
• Stokes TN, Dixon-Woods M, McKinley RK. Breaking up is never easy: general practitioners’ accounts of removing patients from their lists. Fam Pract 2003;20:628-634.
• McKinley RK, Fraser RC, Baker RH, Riley RD. The relationship between measures of patient satisfaction and enablement and professional assessments of consultation competence. Med Teach 2004;26:223-228.
• McKinley RK, Middleton J, French A. A pilot study of diagnostic educational evaluation of junior general practice registrars. Education for Primary Care 2004;15;242-250.
• McKinley RK, Turner JH. Educational assessment and consultation competence. Education for Primary Care 2004;15:462-467.
• Dean P, Farooqi A, McKinley RK. Quality improvement in general practice: the perspective of the primary health care team. Quality in Primary Care. 2004;12:201-208.
• Stokes T, Dixon-Woods M, McKinley RK. Ending the doctor-patient relationship: a proposed model. Fam Pract 2004;21:507-514.
• McKinley RK, Stokes TN, Exley C, Field D. Care of people dying with malignant and cardio-respiratory disease in general practice. Br J Gen Pract. 2004;54:909-913.
• Kelly JJ, Njuki F, Lane PL, McKinley RK. Design of a questionnaire to measure trust in an emergency department. Acad Emerg Med 2005;12:147-51.
• Thomas M, McKinley RK, Freeman E, Foy C, Price D. The prevalence of dysfunctional breathing in adults in the community with and without asthma. Primary Care Respiratory Journal. Primary Care Respiratory Journal 2005;14:78-82.
• McKinley RK, Hastings AM, Pedersen SA. The long case revisited. Med Ed 2005;39:442-447.
• Hastings AM, McKinley RK, Fraser RC. Strengths and weaknesses in the consultation skills of senior medical students: identification, enhancement and curricular change. Med Ed 2006;40:437-443.
• Middleton JF, McKinley RK, Gillies CL. Effect of patient completed agenda forms and doctors’ education about the agenda on the outcome of consultations: randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2006. Doi:10.1136/bmj.38841.444861.7C (published 17 May 2006).
• Levy ML, Stephenson P, Griffiths C, McKinley R, Sheikh A, van Schayck CPO, Bryant P, Smith A, Holmes S. Primary Care Respiratory Journal is awarded full Medline/Index Medicus listing. Primary Care Respiratory Journal 2006;15:136-138.
• Fraser RC, Sarkhou ME, McKinley RK, van der Vleuten C. Regulatory end-point assessment of the consultation competence of family practice trainees in Kuwait. Eur J Gen Pract 2006;12:100-107.
• McKinley RK, StrandJ. WardL, Gray T, Alun-JonesT, Miller H. Checklists for certification of clinical procedural skills omit essential competencies: a systematic review. Med Ed. 2008;42:338–349.
  Doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2007.02970.x
• Patel S, Peacock S, McKinley R, Clark Carter D, Watson P. GPs’ experience of managing chronic pain in a South Asian community. Fam Pract 2008;25:71–77. Doi:10.1093/fampra/cmn012
• McKinley RK, Strand J, Gray T, Schuwirth L, Alun-Jones T, Miller H. Development of a tool to support holistic generic assessment of clinical procedure skills. Med Ed. 2008;42:619-627.
  Doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03023.x
• Thomas MD, McKinley RK, Mellor S, Watkin G, Holloway E, Scullion J, Shaw DE, Wardlaw AJ, Price DB, Pavord ID. Breathing exercises for asthma: a randomised controlled trial. Thorax Published Online First: 3 December 2008. Doi:10.1136/thx.2008.100867
• Jiwa, M, McKinleyRK, O’Shea C, Arnet H, Dhaliwal, S, Smith M. Investigating the impact of extraneous distractions on consultations in general practice: Lessons learned. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009;9:8. Doi:10.1186/1471-2288-9-8
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/9/8
• Jiwa M, McKinley RK, Spilsbury K, Arnet H, Smith M. Deploying a clinical innovation in the context of actor-patient consultations in general practice: A prelude to a formal clinical trial. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2009;9:54. Doi:10.1186/1471-2288-9-54
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/9/54
• Deaville JA, Wynn-Jones J, Hays RB, Coventry PJ, McKinley RK, Randall Smith J. Perceptions of UK medical students on rural clinical placements. Rural and Remote Health Journal 2009;9:1165. http://www.rrh.org.au/articles/subviewnew.asp?ArticleID=1165
• Jiwa M, O’Shea C, McKinley RK, Mitchell M, Girgis A, Sibbritt D, Burridge L, Smith M, Chan She Ping Delfos W, Hackett G. Developing and evaluating interventions for primary care – a focus on consultations in general practice. Australian Medical Journal 2009;1:3-7. Doi:10.4066/AMJ.2009.107
• Patel S, Peacock SM, McKinley RK, Clark Carter D, Watson PJ. GPs’ perceptions of the service needs of South Asian people with chronic pain: a qualitative enquiry. Journal of Health Psychology 2009;14:909–918.
  Doi: 10.1177/1359105309341003
• Pearson DJ, McKinley RK. Why tomorrow’s doctors need primary care today. R Soc Med 2010;103:9-13. Doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090182
• Thompson C, Dogra N, McKinley RK. A survey of general practitioners' opinions and perceived competencies in teaching undergraduate psychiatry. Education for Primary Care 2010;21:20-24.
• McKinley RK, Williams V, Stephenson C. Improving the content of feedback. The Clinical Teacher 2010;7:161–166.
• Thompson C, Dogra N, McKinley RK. A survey of general practitioners' attitudes towards psychiatry. The Psychiatrist. 2010;34:525-528.
• Jones R, Mehta M, McKinley RK. Medical student access to electronic medical records in UK primary care. EdPC 2011;22:4-6.
• Baker R, Smith A, Tarrant C, McKinley RK, Taub N. Patient feedback in revalidation: an exploratory study using the consultation satisfaction questionnaire. BJGP  2011;61:e638- e644. Doi:org/10.3399/bjgp11X601343
• Bartlett M, McKinley RK, Wynn Jones J, Hays RB. An English rural undergraduate campus: virtue from opportunity and necessity. Rural and Remote Health 2011;11:1841. http://www.rrh.org.au/articles/subviewnew.asp?ArticleID=1841
• Lefroy J, Gay SP, Gibson S, Williams S, McKinley RK. Development and face validation of an instrument to assess and improve clinical consultation skills. Int J Clin Skills. 2012:5;115-125.