Oxford Handbook of Medical Education in Practice

Professor Gabrielle M Finn is Professor of Medical Education at the University of Manchester and Associate Vice President for Teaching at the University of Manchester. Gabrielle is an educationalist with an international profile, who specialises in innovative pedagogic approaches. Gabrielle has established health professions education research units at Russell Group institutions. She has held Associate Editor positions and has an international reputation for high-quality education research. Gabrielle has over 150 peer-reviewed outputs including books, book chapters and journal articles, as well as in excess of 140 international conference presentations. Dr Megan E.L. Brown is a Senior Research Associate in Medical Education at Newcastle University. She trained as a doctor but has worked full-time in medical education since 2018. She obtained her PhD in Medical Education from Hull York Medical School in 2022. She is a workstream co-lead for the NIHR Incubator for Clinical Education Research, and vice-chair for MedEd Collaborative. She is a keen teacher, especially of research methods, and qualitative researcher interested in educational theory, creative approaches to research, and equity. Mr Matthew H.V. Byrne is a Urology registrar and DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. He is an advisory member to the NIHR Incubator for Clinical Education Research and founded MedEd Collaborative - the first student and trainee medical educational research collaborative, as well as We Are Donors - a UK charity that mentors university students to deliver educational interventions in schools about blood and organ donation. Dr Helen R Church is a clinical assistant professor in Medical Education at the University of Nottingham. She has a broad experience of designing and delivering education for both undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare students/professionals and currently teaches and supervises scholars on the Masters in Medical Education (MMedSci) course at the University of Nottingham. Her current research interests include optimisation of clinical performance and healthcare careers and involve national and international collaboration. She won an international research award (AMEE) for her PhD research and is a member of local and national medical education committees. Dr Neel Sharma is a GI Medicine Specialist and Post CCT Fellow in Early Phase Clinical Trials Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK.