Visitor teams: Swansea Medical School team
As part of the quality assurance process, medical schools are assessed by teams of visitors.
Below are details about the visitors who visited Swansea Medical School during the 2008/09 cycle of visits.
Visitor team
Team Leader: Professor Sean Hilton
Deputy: Professor Richard Hays
Professor Caroline Boggis
Professor Lindsey Davies
Professor Chris Fowler
Mr Chris Hands
Mrs Carol Lamyman-Jones
Mr Alexander McNeil
Dr Martin Rowan-Robinson
Professor Sean Hilton (Team Leader)
Sean Hilton is a Deputy Principal of St. George's, University of London, and Professor of General Practice and Primary Care. He was formerly Dean of Undergraduate Medicine from 1997-2002, Vice-Principal Teaching and Learning from 2004-07. He was responsible for the introduction of new curricula for new 5-years (1996) and 4-years (2000) MB.BS courses at St. George's.
He was a member of the GMC's QABME team assessing the new Peninsula Medical School from 2000-2008.
He is an elected Council member of the Academy for Medical Educators, and has particular interest in the area of professionalism and professional development in medical education. He was previously a member of the QAA's Subject Benchmarking Group for Medicine; a member of the Council and Executive of the Association for Study of Medical Education (ASME), and a member of the Royal College of Physicians' Working Party on Medical Professionalism 2004-07.
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Professor Richard Hays (Deputy Team Leader)
Richard Hays is the Head of the Medical School at Keele University in North Staffordshire. He is a general practitioner with a strong interest in medical education, having attained both a PhD and an MD (Higher Doctorate) in education and medical education in addition to medical qualifications.
He was trained in Australia, graduating from the University of Queensland in 1976, and since then he has been a clinician in both rural and urban general practice, an academic GP at Chair level with broad responsibilities in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, and Foundation Dean of the first of the recent wave of new medical schools in Australia. He has a strong research record, predominantly in medical education and health services research areas, and he has been on the editorial boards of several research journals relevant to that expertise. His publication record includes 7 books, 12 book chapters, and more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles.
He has also an experienced visitor of medical schools in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and North America, for informal exchanges, advising on the development of new medical programmes, or as a member of formal medical school accreditation teams. In 2001, based on a record of innovation in medical education, he was awarded the Centenary medal for services to Australia in health education.
He moved to the UK in 2006 to take up his present role leading the development of one of the UK's new medical schools. He is also taking a leading role in establishing the Academy of Medical Education, a body that aims to enhance the quality of health care through the development and recognition of excellence in medical education.
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Professor Caroline Boggis
Caroline Boggis graduated from St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, in 1978. She undertook formal postgraduate training in radiology in Manchester becoming a fellow of the RCR in 1985. With her consultant appointment she was involved in setting up the Breast Screening Service for Greater Manchester.
Caroline's interest in undergraduate medical education evolved from active participation in postgraduate radiology education and membership of the RCR Education Board. In 1998 she took on the responsibility of Hospital Dean for South Manchester Trust with active involvement in all aspects of the students' undergraduate experience. During this time she obtained a PG Cert in Teaching and learning in Higher Education becoming a member then fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
In 2004 Caroline moved to the Manchester Medical School as Associate Director for the Curriculum and for Student Support progressing to Programme Director in 2008. She has been active in various aspects quality assurance internally and externally and has been an external examiner for QML and for St George's Medical School Graduate Entry Programme
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Professor Lindsey Davies
Professor Davies is the Department of Health for England's National Director of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness.
She is one of the most senior doctors in the Department of Health and has national responsibilities for policy development and implementation.
A qualified doctor, Lindsey has had a varied and distinguished career in health service and public health management and development in the NHS and the civil service, since first becoming a board level director in the NHS in 1985.
She holds a Special Professorship in Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology at Nottingham University.
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Professor Chris Fowler
Professor Chris Fowler is Professor of Surgical Education and an honorary consultant urological surgeon at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Barts and The London NHS Trust. He graduated in 1973 and is Fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE) and the Royal College of Physicians. He took a Masters in Higher Professional Education at the Institute of Education, University of London in 1999.
He has been Dean for Education at Barts and The London SMD since 2001 and has been responsible for the introduction of the School's 1999 and Graduate Entrant's Programme curricula. He is currently working with colleagues on a refreshment of these curricula with the working title of Curriculum '08.
He is a former Sessional Tutor and inaugural Director of the Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit at the RCSE. He has been a Member of the Court of Examiners for the FRCS and was an Intercollegiate Examiner for the Speciality Examination in Urology. He has pioneered fibrescopic endoscopy in urology and has been active in investigating novel minimally invasive treatments for prostatic disease. He is co-author of a major urological textbook and has contributed more than 50 chapters on urological topics.
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Mr Chris Hands
Chris Hands graduated from Cambridge, with a BA in English in 2002, and went on to gain his M.St. in English at Oxford in 2004. He is currently in the third year of the graduate entry program at St George's, University of London. Chris has interests in social justice and the impact of volunteering, and a particular interest in refugee issues and refugee health. He is currently involved with two voluntary organisations, as Chair of Student Action for Refugees at St Georges, and Honorary Director for Morocco for Africatrust Networks - a small NGO which coordinates international volunteering. Chris also maintains a lively interest in current health policy, and ways in which it can be influenced by healthcare students and junior staff. He has recently organised a series of seminars at St Georges on changes in the NHS, and is a regular contributor to the News section of the Student BMJ.
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Mrs Carol Lamyman-Jones
Carol Lamyman-Jones is Director of the Board of Community Health Councils in Wales but has held senior management positions in all sectors. Community Health Councils are the independent, statutory 'health watchdogs' in Wales, monitoring primary and secondary care, providing help and advice on NHS complaints and work with NHS Trusts and key stakeholders to ensure that the voice of the public is heard in all aspects of health in Wales. Carol directs and manages all aspects of the Board, has responsibility for policy and liaises regularly with the Health Minister and National Assembly for Wales.
Possessing an MSc in Management of Education, Carol is a member of several health regulatory bodies in Wales. A fluent Welsh speaker she works closely with the media in highlighting issues that are of interest to the public and where the voice of the citizen is required. Consulting widely with the public and key stakeholders, Carol is currently assisting with the development of NHS restructure within Wales.
Her interest in becoming a lay member of the QABME stems from a desire to utilise her academic knowledge whilst ensuring that a core function of the work of the Board of CHCs in protecting the interests of the public and patients is maintained.
She commences a PhD (on a part time basis) in Public Leadership in 2009.
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Mr Alexander McNeil
Alexander started his medical education in 2005 at the Hull York Medical School. During this time he became very involved with programmes to include school children into the work of medicine from giving talks and tours on many interview days and open days to participating in workshops giving demonstrations for primary and secondary school children.
Alexander also has a keen interest in working with children especially those with special needs of whom he has been a carer of for several years and is currently a senior worker at a local care charity where he also runs a scheme for young adults aged 18+.
2007/2008 saw Alexander undertake an intercalated degree year at the University of York in the biology and health science department. Here he is developing a review of the literature on autism aetiology to date and also setting up a pilot case control study on the aetiology of autism in conjunction with the well established and experienced epidemiology and genetics department in the University of York and the Lime Tree's child psychiatry centre in York.
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Dr Martin Rowan-Robinson
Martin is currently a GP in based in Derby City Centre Practice. Until 2008 he was also the Director of Graduate Entry Medicine at Nottingham University based in Derby, where his main areas of responsibility were:
- Clinical and communication Skills for the first 18 months of the Nottingham Graduate Entry programme
- PPD for first 18 months of the Nottingham Graduate Entry programme
- Community placements for Nottingham students based in Derby
- Expanding community based learning for Nottingham students based in Derby
- QA and recruitment for primary care in Southern Derbyshire
- Member of SIFT allocation committee
- Member of committee which reviews quality of all placements in Southern Derbyshire
His interests lie in Assessment, Curricular content and structure and my strengths are held within clinical communication skills, PPD, community and clinical skills - particularly in the early years.
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