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Biography
Joining Dundee’s Medical School in 2006 to support Consultants involved with the MBChB, Susie finished her PhD with Prof Keith Topping in 2005. Since then she’s developed an international reputation in Medical Education, and across the University through her expertise in Distance Learning and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. She is passionate about faculty development and change management, giving agency to all stakeholders including students, administrative staff, academics and managers. She has been the University Distance Learning Lead for a number of years.
Having been Associate Dean for Quality and Academic Standards for the last four years she has now taken over from Professor Mairi Scott as Director of the world-famous Centre for Medical Education, started by Professor Ronald Harden in 1972. She is a recent recipient of the prestigious Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching, the highest education award at the University, in recognition of her contribution to education. Throughout she’s known for her humour and cheerful resilience, the latter she says developed through being a life-long supporter of Luton Town Football Club.
Research
Current Research Interests
- Faculty development including impact of training and educational qualifications and change management
- Sense of belonging particularly in distance learning
- Professional identity
Current and previous Research Supervision
- Sense of Belonging for distance learners
- Female medics in Pakistan: exploring their pathways, experiences, perceived gendered barriers and coping strategies
- Nursing verbal handover and nursing errors in medical and surgical units
- Promoting Professionalism for Medical Educators 2nd supervisor
- Culturally-specific learner-centred feedback: developing a model.
- The use and impact of a mobile clinical skills and simulation facility in remote and rural Scotland: A realist synthesis and evaluation
- The push and pull of teacher: Professional Development. 1st supervisor
- Retention and success in healthcare education: Exploring the influence of gendered identities in male and female dominated environments
- Women in Surgery: Exploring stakeholders’ experiences and perceptions of male and female surgeons in different healthcare settings
- The impact of postgraduate qualifications in medical education
Teaching
Design and delivery face to face and distance of various courses on the Masters of Medical Education programme including curriculum development and evaluation, involving students as equal partners, educational environment, management and leadership in the health professions, change management, mentoring, Quality Assurance and Enhancement, influencing policy. Professional Identity in a Changing World in the Professional Doctorate.
Consultancy
Quality Assurance and Enhancement – designing, implementing, evaluating; Developing and Implementing Policy; Changing Culture; Managing Change; Managing Performance; Building Research / Scholarship capacity
Stories
News
Professor Susie Schofield of the School of Medicine has been named as one of two winners of this year’s Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching.
News
We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to our School of Medicine colleagues who have been promoted recently.
