Dr Tony McDonald
Director Engagement, Assistant Director LTMS
- Email: tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 246 4543
- Fax: +44 (0) 191 222 5016
- Address: School of Medical Sciences Education Development
The Medical School
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
16-17 Framlington Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4HH
Introduction
Tony supports, at a strategic level, the development, promotion, implementation and monitoring of the academic and commercial aims and activities of the School. Tony also coordinates the development and implementation of communication and information technology systems with a wide range of internal and external clients.
Background
I came into Medical Education via a circuitous path, starting with a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics, being employed by the University Computing Service as a Macintosh advisor and Senior trainer with Netskills for six years. I was employed the then FMCC (now the School of Medical Education Development) to create and disseminate a Medically and Health-related Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) under the TLTP3 initiative. This was highly successful, with the system developed still being used day-to-day by three Medical Schools around the country.
Roles and Responsibilities
I'm Assistant Director of the Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Centre. I am responsible for a large proportion of the IT provision for the MBBS degree programme through the LSE , which serves 1500 students and 1700 staff. I am learning technologies lead for the CETL4HealthNE and have been instrumental in getting the NHS-HE gateway initiated.Qualifications
BSc. 1st class honours, Physics/Computer Science, Keele University 1985
PhD. Molecular Dynamics of Ionic Systems with large numbers of particles, Keele University 1992
Previous Positions
Senior trainer with Netskills and the DESIRE project, where I developed the TONIC-NG Asssessment system.
Macintosh advisor with the University Computing Service (now ISS) for four years.
Memberships
CETL4HeathNE Fellow
- Quentin-Baxter M, Hammond GR, McDonald AM, Skelly GJ, Drummond P. Supporting students with a networked learning environment. In: 9th Ottawa in Africa Conference on Medical Education. 2000, Capetown, South Africa: Association for Medical Education in Europe.
