I was born and grew up in Â鶹´«Ã½. My medical degree was at Kings College Medicine, London. From there I trained in Margate, becoming a single handed GP in nearby Broadstairs.
After working there for five years I moved back to Â鶹´«Ã½, to be near family, sea and moors.
I currently work as a general practitioner in Buckfastleigh. I head the Clinical Assessment Panel, creating new questions for the AMK exams and am deputy to Head of Student Selected Component in Peninsular Medical School
Qualifications
MBBS (Kings College London, 1990)
Roles on external bodies
Heritage Trustee at Ford Park Cemetery.
Treasurer of Â鶹´«Ã½ Methodist Central Hall.
I am often seen on the local history lecture circuit.
Teaching
Teaching interests
Quality Improvement, Clinical Governance, Managing Change.
Global Pandemics
History of NHS
Victorian Public Health with a particular interest in prostitution.
Research
Research interests
Development of adaptive testing for medical students.
Personal
Reports & invited lectures
Public Health in Victorian Â鶹´«Ã½ (Series of lectures)
Cholera in Noss Mayo
The Darling Budds of Devonshire (Exploring the lives and legends surrounding a 19th Century family of Doctors)
Forming the NHS in Â鶹´«Ã½
Prostitution in Victorian Â鶹´«Ã½
Poisons and Poisoners in Victorian Â鶹´«Ã½
Conferences organised
Symposium in Victorian Prostitution
Symposium in Church Life in Victorian Â鶹´«Ã½
Other academic activities
Special Study Units in "Quacks, Whores, Pestilence and Poison, Public Health in Victorian Â鶹´«Ã½"
Special Study Units in "War and Medicine"