Professor Susie Schofield

Professor (Teaching and Scholarship)

Postgraduate Medicine, School of Medicine

Susie Schofield
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Contact

Email

S.J.Schofield@dundee.ac.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1382 386802

Biography

Susie joined the University as a mature student after a career break, intending to do a one-year Master’s in Applied Computing before going back into industry. That was in 2001. The masters morphed into a Research Assistant post on an educational technology project, then a full-time PhD with Professor Keith Topping. One year into the PhD, life took an unexpected turn and she needed to find a job. The Medical School was advertising for a Staff Development Officer – someone with an educational background (she’s a qualified physics teacher) and experienced in administration and communication (skills developed during 15 years as a software consultant), an excellent match. Moving part-time with the PhD was to give her useful insight later when co-developing the Professional Doctorate, Dundee’s interprofessional doctoral programme aimed at professionals combing doctoral level study with work. 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 currently combines Interim Director of CME, School of Medicine’s Associate Dean Quality and Academic Standards and University Distance Learning lead. 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
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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
 

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