Professor Olwyn Westwood
Professor of Medical Education
email: o.westwood@qmul.ac.uk
Tel: +44 0207 882 2219
Location: Whitechapel, Garrod, 2.10
Olwyn Westwood is Professor of Medical Education and the Associate Dean (Education Quality) at Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She has worked for around 20 years in medical and healthcare education and is a GMC visitor for Quality Assurance in Basic Medical Education. She took her Ph.D in biochemistry at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, University of London and post-doctoral studies at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, prior to a lectureship in immunology. She went on to co-ordinate the set up of the medical curriculum and its laboratories for the Graduate Entry Programme in Medicine at University of Swansea in collaboration with the Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff. Upon returning to her alma mater at University of Surrey, she was Reader in Medical Education. She has a keen interest in making biomedical sciences education accessible and relevant in medicine as well as the changing nature of the NHS professions and new ways of working, assessment and feedback.
PROFESSIONAL FELLOWSHIPS & MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the British Society for Immunology
Member of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
Member of the Association of Medical Education in Europe. (AMEE)
International Association for Inter-Professional Education and Collaborative Practice (InterEd; founder member)
Member of the Academy of Medical Educators (AME; founder member).
Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences
REPRESENTATION ON NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES
2002 Reviewer for the International Diabetes Federation Consultative Section on Diabetes Health Professional Education
2003-2005 Swansea Medical School’s representative on New Schools’ Forum of the Council for Head of Medical Schools.
2004-present Member of the Universities Board for Physician Assistant Programmes
2005-2009 Chair of the Interim Board for National Accreditation Examinations for Physician Assistants
2005-2007 University’s representative for the National Programme Board
(Dept. of Health) for the Physician Assistants.
2005-2007 The Physician Assistant National Programme Board - Advisor for the Competence and Curriculum Framework for the Physician Assistant.
2005-2006 Organizing Committee for the International ‘Alltogether Better Health III’ Meeting which was used to launch the International Association for Inter-professional Education and Collaborative Practice (InterEd)
2006- present Member of Council: Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
2009-present Member of the ASME Policy Group.
2005 -present General Medical Council Visitor for Quality Assurance in Basic Medical Education: member of Teams visiting medical schools of the following Universities: Warwick; Cambridge; Imperial College London, Dundee.
INTERNATIONAL INTERESTS
Invited to the International Summit of Medicine, Beijing to speak on:
2008: Bologna & Medicine and its impact for international students.
2009: Problem-Based Learning
International Curriculum Development
· Sabbatical Fellowship to Australian Clinical Departments to Evaluate Curriculum for Diabetes Educators.
· Evaluation of the transfer of the education of professions allied to medicine into tertiary education in New South Wales, Australia via associations with Heads of Nursing.
· International cooperation with US for setting up the new health profession of Physician Assistant (PA) in the UK via the Chief Executives of the National Certification Council for PA, the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) and the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA).
Research interests:
INCOME SINCE 2008:
· CETL Award [£15,400] Peer Feedback in Formative Assessment to Aid Learning
· Richmond Pharmaceuticals [£469,000] Knowledge Transfer Partnership in Medical Education.
· CETL Award [£17,926]: Development and evaluation of a multimedia package for postgraduate inter-professional teaching of musculoskeletal examination skills.
· Arthritis Research Council [Educational Research Fellowship; [£244,988]: Educational interventions to improve general practitioner management of shoulder pain.
· QMUL Student Experience Innovation Fund [£50,149.00] Augmentation of the Student Selected Components of the Barts and the London MBBS curriculum.
THESIS SUPERVISION/EXAMINER
Supervised Ph.D. theses successfully completed
University of Surrey Saiqa Malik Ph.D awarded
University of Surrey Mona Patel Ph.D awarded
University of Surrey Iain Haysom Ph.D awarded
University of London Alistair Easterfield Ph.D awarded
University of London Sargu Patel Ph.D awarded
Thesis Examiner – Ph.D & MSc at:
Universities of Surrey, London, Portsmouth
Supervision of Master’s theses successfully completed at University of Surrey Roehampton
PUBLICATIONS
Textbooks
Austen, B & Westwood, OMR. (1991) Protein Targeting & Secretion In Focus series, IRL Press, Oxford,
Westwood, OMR (1999) The Scientific Basis for Health Care Times Mirror International Publishers, London.
Westwood, OMR & Hay FC (2001) Epitope Mapping: A Practical Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Hay, FC. & Westwood, OMR. (2002) Practical Immunology (4th edition) Blackwell Science, Oxford
Recent Publications and Presentations
Westwood, OMR Richardson, L (2005) Developing a Medical Care Practitioner to Meet the Needs of England Perspective on Physician Assistant Education 16 (1) 50-53.
Westwood OMR (2005) Graduate Entry into Medicine – a new way to study medicine in Wales. Welsh Paediatric Journal 22: 5-12.
McEniery, CM, Yasmin, Wallace, S Maki-Petaia, K., McDonnell, B., Sharman, JE., Retallick, C., Franklin, SS., Brown, MJ., Lloyd, RC., Cockcroft, JR on behalf of the ENIGMA Study Investigators (Pusalkar, P., Sansbury, M., Schmitt, M., Taylor, J., Thomas, E., Thomas, N., Westcott, R., Westwood, O., Williams. S.) (2005) Increased Stroke Volume and Aortic Stiffness Contribute to Isolated Systolic Hypertension in Young Adults Hypertension. 46: 221-226.
McEniery, CM., Yasmin, Hall, IR., Qasem, A., Wilkinson, IB., Cockcroft, JR., on behalf of the ACCT Investigators: Derin Balogun, Ross Campbell, Zahid Dhakam, Rhiannon Edwards, Patrick Harnett, Isla Mackenzie, Kaisa Maki-Petaja, Barry McDonnell, Maggie Munnery, Pawan Pusalkar Christopher Retallick, Matthias Schmitt, James Sharman, Rachel Stainsby, Justin Taylor, Edna Thomas, Neil Thomas, Sian Tyrell, Sharon Wallace, Olwyn Westwood, Simon Williams. (2005) Normal Vascular Aging: Differential Effects on Wave Reflection and Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity. The Anglo-Cardiff Collaborative Trial (ACCT). J. Am Coll. Cardiol 46(9): 1753-60.
Westwood, OMR., Nelson, PN, Hay FC (2006) Rheumatoid factors – what’s new? (Review) Rheumatology 45 (4): 379-385.
Westwood, OMR, Hay FC (2006) Why, Who and What is a Medical Care Practitioner? HEA MEDEV Bulletin 01.11: 24-6.
Hay, FC. & Westwood, OMR (2007). "Hypersensitivity Type III" in Immunology (7th edition) edited by D. Male, J. Brostoff , D. Roth, & I. Roitt, Elseviers London pp461-76.
Westwood, OMR, Leinster, S., Weinberg, JR (2008) A Health Care Curriculum for
the 21st Century: Time for Flexibility? J. Royal Soc Med. Feb;101(2):59-62.
Nelson PN, Westwood, OMR, Freimanis, G, Roden, D, Sissaoui, S, Rylance, P, Hay, FC. (2008) Epitope mapping of monoclonal rheumatoid factors reveals novel antigenic determinants on IgG1 Fc. Clinical Medicine: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders. 1:33-42.
Willson S, Cushing A, Westwood O. Performing Medicine Workshop. ASME. Leicester 2008.
Cushing A, Westwood O. Evaluation of a Training Resource – Mental Health Assessment, Paper presented at ASME Leicester 2008.
Green, A., Westwood, O., Smith, P., Peniston-Bird, F (2009) Provision of Continued Professional Development for Non-medical Prescribers within a South of England Strategic Health Authority – a report on a training needs analysis J. Nursing Management 17:603-614.
Westwood O (2009) Physician Assistant role for the UK. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/339/oct06_3/b3938
Cushing A, Westwood O. (2009) Peer Formative Feedback to Aid Learning. Poster. International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH). Miami
Cushing A, Westwood O, Abbott S, Hall A. Interprofessional Peer Feedback in formativeassessment: Learning from each other. International Clinical Skills Conference. Prato, Italy. Voted best session paper.
Westwood, O., Cushing, AM, Hall A (2009) Peer Feedback in a Formative OSCE on Communication Skills. Paper. UK Council Conference Manchester
Education reports
2006: Co-ordination of the Response by the Universities Board for Physician Assistants Programmes for the Consultation Document on Competence and Curriculum Framework for Physician Assistants
2006: Facilitation Document for Managers and Educators to Implement the Curriculum of the European Oncology Nurses Society - Private Report for European Oncology Nurses Society
2007 A Training Needs Analysis for Non-Medical Prescribers Report for the Surrey & Sussex Strategic Health Authority.
2007: The Competence & Curriculum Framework for the Physician Assistant – National Practitioner Programme, Dept of Health.
2008 Bologna report to the General Medical Council: ‘Structure of Medical Education in Europe: Implementing Bologna’
2009 Credit framework document for the MBBS & BDS of Barts and the London SMD [this is being used as an exemplar of good practice by the Quality Enhancement Committee of QMUL]
2009 Medical Education Research Strategy to augment medical education research currently in and around Barts and The London SMD