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Dr Alison Sturrock
142
1st floor
Medical School Building, 74 Huntley St
London
WC1E 6JE
Appointment
- Clinical Senior Lecturer
- UCL Medical School
- Faculty of Medical Sciences
Biography
I am a senior clinical lecturer in medical education with a background in medicine, diabetes and endocrinology. I have been academic lead for clinical and practical skills at UCL medical school since 2005, academic lead for assessment since 2008 and academic lead for the clinical teaching fellows since 2010.
I am the co-director of the GMC development unit which develops assessments for doctors referred to the GMC for poor clinical performance as well as providing assessments for the revalidation of doctors who do not have a responsible officer. I am also the director of a consultancy project with the Royal College of Physicians in which we are helping to develop assessments for physician associates. I have previously worked with Department of Health and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to develop assessments for selection into specialty training.
I am currently of member of: the GMC assessment advisory board, Medical School Council’s (MSC) assessment alliance, Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) technical capacity & delivery group and the shared clinical assessment group for MSC, PSA research group and UCL Panel of Experts on Assessment and Feedback member.
Research Groups
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My current postgraduate research projects concentrate on different aspects of the GMC Fitness to Practice procedures. These include looking at the demographic spread of doctors in these procedures as well as trying to identify early signs of poor performance. I am also PI on a project looking at the fairness of decisions at interim order panel at the GMC and in 2015 was a collaborator on a Health Education North Central and East London grant on patient empowerment.
My undergraduate research is based on the fairness of assessments and students perceptions of feedback. Working with an undergraduate student I received a change maker grant for this work in 2016. This project has been used to develop a feedback strategy that and redesign the feedback for used in summative assessments.
I am a member of the national Prescribing Safety group which is researching which aspects of prescribing medical students find difficult with; I have also performed a three year study of the performance of final year medical students in an OSCE of oxygen prescribing.
Teaching Summary
As the academic lead for clinical and practical skills, I provide the teaching material for these sessions throughout the medical course. As some of this teaching is taught using peer assisted learning, I also write and supervise the material used by our peer assisted learners.
As the academic lead for assessment, I write the strategy for assessment for the medical course and have input into all assessments. The final year assessment is my responsibility to write and deliver. I deliver feedback about assessments both to large groups and individuals.
Academic Background
| 2007 | FHEA | ATQ03 - Recognised by the HEA as a Fellow – Education | |
| 1995 | MRCP | Member of the Royal College of Physicians – Medicine | Royal College of Physicians |
| 1993 | MB.ChB | Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery – Medicine/Surgery | University of Edinburgh |
| 1991 | BSc Hons | Bachelor of Science (Honours) – Bacteriology, Virology and Immunology | University of Edinburgh |
