The following are all RCP Educators who are currently facilitating on the Physicians as Educators (PAE) programme at the College.
Dr Maggie Allen is a Consultant Rheumatologist at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. She has a lead role in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in the Trust and within Warwick Medical School. She is a Deputy Clinical Tutor with responsibility for FY1s in the Coventry and Warwickshire Foundation School. She is also involved in specialist training as Chair of the West Midlands Rheumatology Services and Training Committee. Maggie became a RCP Educator and joined the faculty at the end of 2004. She is now pursuing a Masters Degree in Medical Education.
Professor Roger Barton is the RCP Associate Director (Education), and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Newcastle University, where he is Chair of the Board of Medical Studies, leading the undergraduate curriculum. Roger trained in Newcastle, Edinburgh and London and is also Director of Education for Northumbria Trust. Always keen on teaching, he was involved with the PAE programme from the beginning and is currently its senior advisor, having helped to design the workshops and produce the video resources. He started a Certificate of Medical Education in 1997 and completed his Masters in Clinical Education in 2005. Roger was a subject specialist reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency and an Educational Visitor for the GMC, evaluating UK medical schools. He was the Education Advisor to the Department of Health National Endoscopy Training Programme, an advisor to the National Subject Centre for Medicine, and currently chairs the UK Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He has advised UK medical schools on aspects of curriculum, teaching and learning. He is a member of the Federation of Royal Colleges Clinical Examining Board.
Dr Kit Byatt is a consultant physician and geriatrician working in Hereford. He has been involved in postgraduate medical education (PGME) for the past 10 years, as clinical tutor first in King's Lynn and now in Hereford. He has been on the council of the National Association of Clinical Tutors for eight years, and is involved in organising many of their medical education conferences. He has been involved with developing tools for supporting PGME in trusts, and in researching an instrument to support clinical tutors' professional development. He was on the faculty of the 'Educating Consultants' programme in East Anglia and helped develop the 'Laying the Foundations' educational materials produced by the RCP. He gained his certificate in PGME in 2004 and is a mentor to training grade and career grade staff. In his spare time he plays the mandocello in a ceilidh band
Dr Simon Cooper is a consultant physician at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. Simon is a RCP College Tutor, Unit Tutor and Coordinator, and is also a Honorary Senior Lecturer at Bristol University Academy. He has recently completed a Certificate in Medical Education at Bristol. Simon is involved in training, education, assessment and appraisal of F1s, F2s, junior doctors, registrars and consultants. He is mentor to junior and senior medical staff and senior nurses. Simon is involved in the South West Deanery appointments and assessment processes, and his main clinical interest is Parkinson’s disease.
Dr Christine Dainty qualified in 1989, having previously obtaining a chemistry degree from Liverpool University. She was a full time GP for 11 years, and is now a GP with a special interest in emergency medicine. She is also Associate Director in general practice at Mersey Deanery, with responsibility for Modernising Medical Careers. Chris has been heavily involved in all levels of multi-professional education and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education. At present she is working towards a Masters in Education, to be completed in 2006.
Dr Peter Davies is a consultant in diabetes & endocrinology at Sandwell Hospital in the West Midlands. Organisation and delivery of clinical teaching features highly in his non-clinical work as lead teacher for diabetes to the University of Birmingham and local hospital lead for final year medicine. He was previously a RCP Tutor. He is a 2003 graduate of the PAE programme and joined the present faculty as facilitator in 2004.
Dr John Duffy is a Consultant Stroke Physician running the local stroke service for the Winchester population, but spends five sessions per week involved in undergraduate education. John has acted as the Associate Clinical Sub-Dean for Royal Hampshire County Hospital for the last four years, overseeing the expansion of the medical school on-site. He is the clinical lead for the development of the Graduate Entry Medical programme for Southampton University Medical School and in this capacity regularly acts as both a large- and small-group facilitator on the programme.
Mr Robert Gillies is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust in Mersey. He is an Elective Surgeon specialising in arthroscopic knee surgery, ligament reconstruction and knee arthroplasty. Rob is a council member of the Liverpool Medical Institution and a ST 1 Programme Director and Chair. He is also involved with the Mersey Early Years of Surgical Training Board, and is Director of the Mersey Deanery Foundation School Board and Associate Dean of Modernising Medical Careers in the Mersey Deanery. Rob is married with four children and is a passionate Liverpool FC supporter and shareholder.
Dr Gabrielle Greveson is a Consultant Physician with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University. Gabrielle has had several educational roles during her career, including Royal College Tutor and Clinical Skills Convenor for the MBBS Programme, and she is now Degree Programme Director for the Masters in Clinical Education Programme at Newcastle University. Gabrielle is on the Regional Training subcommittee for Geriatric Medicine in the Northern Deanery and has been appointed to the recently convened Federation of Royal Colleges Specialist Examination Board for Geriatric Medicine. Gabrielle completed a PG Certificate in Medical Education in 1997 and Ed.D in 2004.
Dr Rod Hughes is a Consultant Rheumatologist and Physician at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. Rod has been a clinical director in a large medical directorate for four years and recognises the essential role that educational supervisors play in the evolution, development and delivery of training programmes. He has examined for PACES since 2000 and has an active role in teaching undergraduates and postgraduates in medicine. He is now college tutor/medical CT programme director for his trust.
Rod completed training as an RCP Educator through the PAE programme in 2003 and has been facilitating since then. Rod believes that increasing the skills of educational and clinical supervisors is the greatest challenge that faces medical postgraduate education at present, and that the PAE programme is an effective way to begin this process: 'good supervision can often be inspiring and lead to a successful and happy career in medicine.'
Mrs Kate Ippolito BA (Hons) MA FAETC FHEA is an Educationalist at the RCP. Kate graduated with a BA (Hons) in Spanish and Portuguese from Leeds University. She has a Masters in Higher and Professional Education from the Institute of Education, London, a Further and Adult Education Teaching Certificate and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Prior to joining the RCP, Kate worked as a trainer in industry and, most recently, at Brunel University (2002 to 2007) as Education Development Projects Manager, with responsibilities for teaching on the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and managing a number of educational research and development projects.
At the RCP Kate is a tutor on the RCP/UCL Certificate and Masters in Medical Education, and teaches on the PAE Programme.
Dr Cathy Jack is a Geriatrician and Lead Clinician for Stroke Services. She works part-time at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, where she is an Educational Supervisor for the Foundation Programme. Cathy has a long history of interest in Medical Education, and her past jobs have included Clinical Sub-Dean, PhD Supervisor and Lecturer. She attended the PAE Programme in 2000 and in 2003 she was awarded the RCP/UCL Certificate of Medical Education and became part of the Faculty of PAE.
Dr Crawford Jamieson is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. He divides his time between clinical specialty work and teaching undergraduate medical students from the University of East Anglia. Crawford became a RCP Educator and joined the faculty at the end of 2004. He also facilitates at regional endoscopic training courses, where principles of adult learning are applied to the practical field of colonoscopy training. Crawford is an educational supervisor to SpRs, Clinical Nurse Specialists and Undergraduates. ‘I am a strong believer in avoiding unnecessary barriers between surgical and medical specialty training; there is increasing cross-over in our practice and educational needs.’
Dr David Laird is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management in Durham. He is also College Tutor in Anaesthesia; Clinical Tutor; Chair of Deanery Specialist Training Committee in Anaesthesia; Undergraduate Lead in Durham from 2004; and Lead Clinical Tutor in his Trust. In 1999 he was awarded the Wyeth Travelling Fellowship to North Carolina and obtained the Certificate in Medical Education. David has been involved in the PAE Programme from its inception.
Dr Aroon Lal is the Associate Medical Director of Undergraduate Education and the official Trust title is Basildon & Thurrock University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust is the lead district general hospital provider of undergraduate education for University College London and The Royal Free Medical School, and runs a popular finals' clinical revision course. It has a well established junior doctor medical rotation, and receives Foundation Year Trainees from the North Central Thames Foundation School and SpRs from the London and Eastern Deaneries.
Aroon has been facilitating on the PAE programme since 1999 having previously been one of the first cohort of participants on it. More recently, he has taken the PG Certificate in Medical Education developed by RCP and UCL.
Dr David Levine is a Consultant Physician working in West Cornwall with an interest in Gastroenterology. He has a longstanding involvement in medical education and has a Certificate in Education from Plymouth University. His particular interest is in training the trainers for colonoscopy and he is on the faculty of the Southwest regional colonoscopy training centre. He has been on the RCP faculty of PAE in various workshops since its inception, and now works mainly with Dr Derek Waller on the design and delivery of workshops for consultant appraiser training and mentor training programmes.
Dr Clive Lewis is a consultant cardiologist at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge and specialises in heart transplantation and congenital heart disease. He has been involved in medical education throughout training as RCP Education Fellow, developing assessment methods and has promoted effective post graduate medical education by serving on the RCP Trainees Committee, College Council, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and currently sits on the PMETB Training Committee. He has a lead role in local undergraduate and post graduate medical education as deputy Clinical Tutor, Foundation Training Director and College Tutor. Clive has been a facilitator for Physicians as Educators since 2000.
Dr Ben Marshall is a Consultant Physician in Respiratory and General Medicine at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Southampton University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and was awarded a PhD in 1999 for a thesis on development on novel TB vaccines. He joined the Physicians as Educators Faculty in 2006, after attending a PaE module in Edinburgh, and being impressed with the Programme. He has an interest in both undergraduate and post graduate education, and is the Graduate Groups Coordinator on the Graduate Entry programme at Southampton which started in 2004. He plays a role on the Respiratory Specialist Training Committee at the Wessex and Severn Deanery. He hopes he brings enthusiasm and a personable approach to the PaE faculty.
Dr Alastair Miller is consultant physician at the Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Honorary Fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. His main clinical and research interests are blood borne viruses and skeletal infection.
He qualified from St John's College, Cambridge and Westminster Hospital and trained in general medicine and infectious disease at Royal Navy Hospitals, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham; St Georges Hospital, London and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. After several years as a consultant in the Navy including a spell of refugee work in Kurdistan and a period as Professor of Medicine he moved to West Midlands where he was consultant at Kidderminster and Worcester and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Birmingham University. He moved to Liverpool three years ago.
He has always had a keen interest in teaching and assessment. He has been a MRCP Clinical examiner since 1998 and is on the specialty question group for infectious disease for MRCP Part 1 and 2. He teaches regularly on the DTM&H course at Liverpool and is an examiner for the London DTM&H exam. He is Chair of the SAC on Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine.
His outside interests are mountaineering, sailing, travel and adventure sports.
Upon his return he became interested in the teaching and mentoring of students, undertaking teacher training programmes in higher and further education. As a result, he began teaching at a college in Surrey, delivering the Greenwich University postgraduate teaching programmes. During that time he also produced and developing materials for the Institute of Education in University of London.
His current role as Deputy Director of Education at the RCP involves working closely with the Director of Education in the management, delivery and development of a variety of programmes including PAE and the Certificate in Medical Education taught jointly with UCL.
Dr Sally Parry is a General and Gastroenterology Physician at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She trained in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine in London and Newcastle and completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education in Newcastle whilst a Teaching and Research Fellow. She has an active role in her Trust teaching students, junior doctors and nurses. She is a lead Tutor for the overseas student programme as well as a current Foundation Tutor and Educational Supervisor and joined the PAE faculty as a facilitator in 2007. ‘Teaching keeps me very much on my toes. I enjoy the challenges of getting key messages across well in addition to on-going personal development!'
Dr Wendy Prentice is a Palliative Medicine Consultant at Kings College Hospital, London. Prior to this appointment she had worked as a Consultant/Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine in the North East. Throughout her career Wendy has been interested in the better integration of specialist palliative care services within non-specialist settings, and the development and delivery of education in all clinical areas. Wendy joined the PAE faculty as a facilitator in 2007.
Dr Matthew Serlin is a Consultant General and Respiratory Physician in Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, where he is also a Director of Medical Education and Undergraduate Clinical Sub-Dean, as well as having the role of Modernising Medical Careers Lead. Matthew has been involved in medical education for many years and is particularly interested in the organisation of educational services and facilities, and training trainers.
Siklos Paul MA (Cantab), BSc, MBBS, FRCP, FHEA. qualified from Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1972 and after general medical experience was appointed Lecturer in Medicine at University of Cambridge and was one of the first Clinical Supervisors in the newly established School of Clinical Medicine. After appointment as Consultant Physician at West Suffolk Hospital in 1982 he developed the links between the Hospital and the School, and in 1995 was appointed Associate Clinical Dean. He was involved in the initial development of the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine and appointed Director of the School in 2000. He has a clinical role in General Internal Medicine at West Suffolk Hospital, and his interests in undergraduate medical education include curriculum development, student assessment and teaching clinical method. He has been a member of the faculty of PAE since its inception.
Dr Richard Thomson is Clinical Subdean at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Consultant astroenterologist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. He graduated from Cambridge and trained in London, the SouthWest, Wessex, and Australia. He has held a number of roles, including site Undergraduate Lead, RCP tutor, and Clinical Director of Medicine. He has interests in on-the-job teaching, communication and consultation consultation skills, mentoring and managing the trainee in difficulty He is married with three children, and runs with Morpeth Harriers in an ongoing battle against middle-age spread.
Mrs Winnie Wade BSc (Hons) Applied Biology PGCE MA Curriculum Studies MA Education is Director of Education at the RCP. Winnie joined the RCP in August 1998 as Director of Education. She is responsible for Education-related functions of the College. She has extensive experience of Faculty development and her main areas of expertise include curriculum development, assessment, development of innovative methods of learning and teaching.
Winnie graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Biology. She also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, a MA in Curriculum Studies and a MA in Education. Winnie started her career in teaching, entered higher education as an educational researcher at Loughborough University before moving to Nottingham Trent University where she became a Senior Lecturer in the Education Department. From 1992 until 1998, Winnie directed the Flexible Learning Initiative at Loughborough University. This Department was the focus for teaching and learning innovation and a centre for teaching, learning and assessment support for all academic staff at the University.
Areas of work in which Winnie is currently leading in postgraduate medical education include: curricula development; assessment of competence; PAE; appraisal training; and Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Winnie led the major pilot of new methods of assessment for Higher Medical Training. She is a member of the Postgraduate Medical Education Training Board Sub-committee on Workplace-based Assessment (a national committee). Winnie is also a member of the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges Education Committee.
Dr Derek Waller is a Clinical Pharmacologist with an interest in Cardiovascular Medicine, working in Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust. He is currently Deputy Medical Director, having previously been the Divisional Director for Unscheduled Care for 10 years and Associate Medical Director with responsibility for appraisal. Previous posts have included Chair of the SAC for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, RCP Tutor, Clinical Tutor and Course Organiser for the Regional MRCP (UK) Part 1 and Part II examination revision courses. He is currently a PACES examiner, sits on the MRCP (UK )Part II Board, is a member of the MRCP (UK) Specialist Question Group and chairs the Knowledge Based Assessment Group for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He has been involved with PAE for about six years, helping to initiate and develop the Consultant Appraisal workshops and facilitating on various other workshops, both in the UK and abroad.
Dr James Wilkinson has a long-standing interest in medical education and methods of assessment. He worked for the RCP for a year in 2002, as an Educational Research Fellow in the Education Department. He was responsible for co-ordinating, running and analysing the results of the RCP pilot study looking at new methods of performance assessment of SpRs in Medicine.