Staff Profile

ROLES

Director of Education for the School of Medicine (undergraduate)

MBBS Degree Programme Director

BACKGROUND

Before joining the MBBS team at Newcastle University I was Director of Education and Admissions and Recruitment Lead for the School of Medicine at Durham University. I have a background in teaching and research in Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology and worked as a British Heart Foundation Researcher/Lecturer at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff.

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

QUALIFICATIONS

BSc (hons) Pharmacology, University of Sunderland

Post Graduate Diploma in Biomedical Methods, Cardiff University

PhD, College of Medicine, Cardiff University

Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Sunderland

Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Durham University

I teach cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology on the MBBS programme and also on the MPharm and Pharmacology BSc courses.

I lead on MBBS Case 2: Cardiac Arrest and I'm also the module lead for BSc Pharm PED2007: Cardiovascular Pharmacology

My research mainly focuses on Medical Education.

Current Research Areas:

PhD Studentship, Raid Aljelaify: Conceptualizing of professional identity formation among Saudi healthcare professions’ students: constructivist grounded theory

Evaluating the Feasibility of, and exploring opportunities for, embedding transnational cross-campus teaching in the MBBS curriculum - Dr Paul Hubbard, NUMed (Lead), Dr Andrew Chaytor, UK, MedEd Society, UK, MedEd Society, NUMed. Funding Achieved - £2,303.00 (RM13,062.00)

• Articles

  • Nazar H, Nazar M, Rothwell C, Portlock J, Chaytor A, Husband A. Teaching safe prescribing to medical Students: perspectives in the UK. Advances in Medical Education and Practice 2015, 2015(6), 279-295.
  • Swamy M, Sawdon M, Chaytor A, Cox D, Barbaro-Brown J, McLachlan J. A study to investigate the effectiveness of SimMan® as an adjunct in teaching preclinical skills to medical students. BMC Medical Education 2014, 14, 231.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Emerson L, Lim JJ, Tilling N, Chaytor A, Hubbard PS. Development and adoption of transnational teaching strategies: a survey of learner and educator views and perceptions [version 1; not peer reviewed]. (poster). In: AMEE Conference 2023. 2023, Glasgow, Scotland: MedEdPublish.
  • Sawdon M, Chaytor A, Finn G, McLachlan JC. Objectively measuring conscientiousness in health care professionals. In: 17th Ottawa Conference and the ANZAHPE 2016 Conference. 2016, Perth, Australia.
  • Swamy M, Sawdon M, Chaytor A, Cox D, Barbaro-Brown J, McLachlan J. First-year medical students' perceptions of using SimMan® in clinical skills examination session. In: 13th Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (APMEC). 2016, Singapore: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Sawdon M, Whitehouse K, Gibson C, Waring L, Chaytor A, Finn G, Murray D. Relating professionalism and conscientiousness to develop an objective, scalar measure of professionalism in anaesthetic trainees. In: SEA UK Annual Scientific Meeting. 2014, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • Swamy M, Sawdon M, Chaytor A, Cox D, Barbaro-Brown J, McLachlan JC. A study to investigate the effectiveness of SimMan as an adjunct in teaching preclinical skills to medical students. In: 16th Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions. 2014, Ottawa, Canada: Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).
  • Sawdon M, Chaytor A, Finn G, McLachlan J. "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence": measuring conscientiousness in health care settings. In: 16th Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions. 2014, Ottawa, Canada: Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).