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Visitor teams: Keele Medical School

As part of the quality assurance process, medical schools are assessed by teams of visitors.

Below are details about the visitors who visited Keele Medical School during the 2007/8 cycle of visits.

Team Leader: Professor Jim McKillop

Jim McKillop has been the Muirhead Professor of Medicine at the University of Glasgow since 1989. He was appointed Deputy Executive Dean of the Faculty in 2007, and was Head of the Undergraduate Medical School from 2001 till 2007. Following a medical degree and an intercalated degree in physiology at Glasgow, he trained in internal medicine and nuclear medicine in Glasgow and Stanford. His principal research interests are in nuclear medicine, especially in nuclear cardiology and infection imaging. He is a member of the team setting up the clinical PET/CT service which will become available in Glasgow in late 2007. He was Vice Chairman of the Administration of Radioactive Advisory Substances Advisory Committee of the Department of Health from 1989 - 96 and Chair from 1996 - 2004. He chaired the Scottish Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee from 2001 - 2007.

His educational interests are extensive, covering both undergraduate postgraduate education, with particular emphasis on curriculum design, assessment and fitness to practice. He was a member of the MRCP(UK) Management Board from 1999 - 2005 and Chair of the MRCP Validation, Audit and Research Group over that period. He was Chair of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine Education Committee and Vice Chair of the UEMS Nuclear Medicine Section from 1998 - 2001. He currently chairs the Scottish Deans Medical Education Group (source of “The Scottish Doctor” curricular outcomes document) and NHS Education for Scotland's Medical Advisory Group. He is a member of the Scottish Board for Academic Medicine and of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He has been an external examiner for various UK and overseas medical schools at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Deputy: Professor Julius Weinberg

Julius Weinberg becomes Deputy Vice Chancellor at City University, London in August 2007. Before this he was Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Director of the Institute of Health Sciences at City University. He qualified in Medicine from Oxford in 1979 and completed specialist training in Infectious Disease, General Medicine, and Public Health Medicine. He has worked within the NHS, as a Consultant/Lecturer in Zimbabwe and for the World Health Organization.

He was a Consultant and Head of Epidemiology Programmes for the UK Public Health Laboratory Service, with particular interest in developing international infection surveillance programmes. He was scientific secretary to the Standing Medical Advisory Committee report into antimicrobial resistance and has been expert advisor to two House of Lords Science and Engineering Select Committee Inquiries, into Infectious Disease Services in the UK and Pandemic Influenza.

He has an interest in health informatics and is responsible for developing the National electronic Library for Infection. He was a non-executive director of the North East London Strategic Health Authority. QABME related areas of interest include: inter-professional education; the changing nature of the professions; equipping doctors for new ways of working, public health.

Dr Mohammed Akhtar

Dr Akhtar is a NHS Consultant Psychiatrist and teacher in the Northern region. Former Consultant Psychiatrist in the R.A.M.C(V). Past Executive Committee member of the North East Division of Royal College of Psychiatrists. Medical member of Appeals Tribunal, Mental Health Review Tribunal and Mental Health Act Commission's Second opinion appointed doctor.

Holds M.sc. in Medical Education. Attended Harvard Macy Institutes course for "Leaders in Medical Education" at Boston and undertook educational fellowship at the "Centre for Research in Medical Education" at Miami. Past member of ASME council. Honorary Lecturer Newcastle University and Honorary Tutor, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff.

Previously University Postgraduate Clinical Tutor. Undergraduate co-ordinator, and has experience of training the trainers.
Faculty Advisor for the book "Crash Course in Psychiatry". Areas of educational interest include Curriculum delivery, Assessment, Feedback and Student Support.

Professor David Croisdale-Appleby

David is a professional corporate strategist, and is a Strategic Advisor to the Boards of many UK organisations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. He is active in policy formulation in health and social care.

For many years he was a CEO of a number of Communications Groups in this country, the USA and worldwide. He was a founder Director of the University for Industry (learndirect), the Government's major post-16 education and training initiative. He was one of the first Chairmen of NHS Independent Reviews, chairing some 40 Reviews over 6 years. He is currently Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Durham, where he is a Member of the Council and Chairman of Ustinov College. He is a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University.

David has a broad range of health and social care involvement including Deputy Chairman of a Mental Health Trust; a Board Member and Trustee of the NHS Confederation; a Member of the Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee for the South East, and a GMC and PMETb Visitor for Medical Education. He is involved in the regulation of professionals involved in healthcare with the FHSAA and the Health Professions Council, and is Deputy Chairman of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners.

His passionate interest is social justice, and he is Chairman of Yarrow Housing, a Learning Disability Trust; a Board Member, Trustee and Audit Chair of Turning Point, the drug and alcohol misuse charity; Chairman of a newly-merged Housing Association, a Magistrate and serves as a CBI Member for the Employment Tribunals Service.

He is a Board Member, Chair of Finance for Centrex, the National Police Training and Development Authority, Board Member and Chair of Audit for Food From Britain, and Board Member and Member of the Executive Committee of Postwatch.

Professor Gillian Needham

Postgraduate Medical Dean and Honorary Consultant Radiologist
North Scotland Deanery
NHS Education for Scotland
Forest Grove House
Foresterhill Road
ABERDEEN AB25 2ZP
g.needham@abdn.ac.uk

I am a radiologist and was appointed to my first consultant post at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in 1989 and took on the role of College Regional Adviser in 1991.

My first Deanery post was as Flexible Training Adviser (Associate Dean for LTFT training) in 1997 and in 1999 I was appointed Postgraduate Dean for the North of Scotland.

I continue to be clinically active and have now completed 4 cycles of NHS Consultant Appraisal as a Radiologist.

I have developed interests in workforce planning and development: having chaired the Scottish Integrated Workforce Planning Group, I was a member of the National Workforce Committee, interim Workforce Champion for the North of Scotland Planning Group, and I am actively involved in national, regional and local planning (in Scotland).

For NHS Education for Scotland North Region, I work closely with local and regional planners across the North of Scotland on aspects of educational and organisational development. In November 2004 I was seconded to a new role as the North of Scotland Regional Development Director; this has multi-professional responsibilities to develop, commission and assure education for all NHS staff across the North of Scotland region.

I am the national lead for remote and rural educational strategy development and currently lead a project team developing a plan for a virtual School of Rural Health care.

Ensuring our training programmes produce people who are competent and confident (capable) to fit the needs of a modern NHS in Scotland is my aim.

Ms Jessie Sohal-Burnside

Jessie Sohal-Burnside is a fourth year medical student at the University of Glasgow. She completed her first degree, a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Environmental Biology, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Between her degrees she worked for both Royal College of General Practitioners and the British Medical Association.

Her previous appointments include Vice Chair of the BMA’s Scottish Medical Students’ Committee and Board Member of the College of Physical Therapists of British Columbia.

Dr Mairi Scott

Dr Mairi Scott is currently Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Scotland. She worked as a GP in an inner city practice in Glasgow for more than 20 years where she was also a trainer for 13 years, and a Senior Tutor in the Medical School of the University of Glasgow for 9 years. She is now Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee where she is responsible for the Communication Skills course. In conjunction with these roles she maintains a range of teaching, presentation and publication work that reflects her strong commitment to learning and development and to the improvement of clinical practice. As well as working for the RCGP, she also represents General Practice on many working groups within the NHS in Scotland and the Scottish Executive including the Delivering for Health Implementation Board.

Mairi is committed to ensuring that medical schools and postgraduate training provide the educational opportunities that allow students and young doctors to become skilled, competent and committed professionals able to care for their patients to the highest possible standards.

She lives in St Andrews, Fife, with the youngest three of her five children.

Rev David Taylor

David Taylor is Deputy Director of Medical Studies at the University of Liverpool. David's particular area of responsibility in quality assurance and enhancement, but he has been Director of Problem-Based Learning since the new Liverpool Curriculum started in 1996. David has a long-standing interest in the student experience, and until recently was Faculty Senior Tutor, organising the pastoral care of around 1500 students.

David has served time as external examiner for the medical schools of Hull/York, Leicester and Khartoum, and has served as educational consultant to several medical schools, both in the UK and overseas. Until 2006, he was visiting professor of education at the University of Cape Town.

Dr Nick Bishop

Nick Bishop is a consultant clinical radiologist, working part time, mainly in cardiovascular and interventional radiology. He is based at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was the first Medical Director of Brighton Healthcare NHS Trust. Whilst in this post he helped establish the Brighton & Sussex Medical School and the new cardiac surgery service in Brighton. After six years in this post he moved to United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust as Medical Director, coinciding with the start of the Bristol Inquiry. In 2003 Nick was appointed Assistant Medical Director to the Commission for Health Improvement. After the creation of the Healthcare Commission in 2004 his role became that of Senior Medical Advisor.

Nick has been on the Board of the British Association of Medical Managers for many years and is its current Chairman. He worked on the policy group for the National Clinical Assessment Authority assessment programme. He has been involved in training for medical management, leadership and appraisal. Nick was a member of the expert group that published the report " Assuring the Quality of Medical Appraisal" for the NHS Clinical Governance Support Team in July 2005.

Ms Hannah Donnelly

Hannah Donnelly is a second year student at Sheffield Medical School, having graduated with BSc Hons in Biomedical Science in 2006 at the University of Sheffield. Hannah has been a committee member of the University's Taekwondo club for three years and also enjoy rowing and running. Her interests in medical education include fair access and student involvement in their education, such as listening to feedback, student choice and student welfare.