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Funding for our doctoral students has come from Arthritis Research Council, ASME (Association for Medical Education), Cancer Research UK, Commonwealth Scholarships, NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) and UCL Impact Studentships.

Current Students 

  • Magdalen Baker
  • Kate McCarthy
  • Catherine Nakidde
  • Eliot Rees
  • Halima Shah
  • Carolina Britton
  • Jemima Thompson

Former Students 

  • Dr Tosin Ososami, PhD
  • Judith Tweedie, MD(Res)
  • Dr Gianpaolo Manalastas, PhD
  • Ahmed Rashid, MD(Res)
  • Dr Emily Unwin, PhD


Current Students

 

Magdalen Baker

  • Thesis title: Evaluating the outcomes and impact of less than full-time training on the medical workforce
  • Supervisors:  Ann Griffin, Asta Medisauskaite

Kate McCarthy

  • Thesis title: Stakeholder perceptions of the use of contextual information in selection processes by UK medical schools.
  • Supervisors: Katherine Woolf, Anouk Wouters

Catherine Nakidde 

  • Thesis title: Accreditation of Health Professions Education in Uganda - exploring policy, processes, actors and context
  • Supervisors: Ann Griffin, Catherine O’Keeffe

Eliot Rees

  • Thesis title: tbc
  • Supervisors:  Katherine Woolf 

Halima Shah

  • Thesis title: Do ethnic differences in performance and selection across medical education persist when controlling for prior educational attainment?
  • Supervisors: Katherine Woolf, Henry Potts

Carolina Britton

  • Thesis title: Which mechanisms support workforce transformation for a safe, effective and resilient perioperative care workforce
  • Supervisors: Della Freeth, Ann Griffin, David Walker

Jemima Thompson

  • Thesis title: The development of a conceptual framework and method to determine whether doctors’ responses to patients’ concerns are patient-centred 
  • Supervisors: Lorraine Noble, Rowena Viney

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Former Students

 

Dr Tosin Ososami, PhD

  • Thesis title: ‘What’s wrong with me?’ The evolution of patients’ information seeking behaviours and doctors verbal responses within the medical consultation
  • Supervisors: Lorraine Noble, Rowena Viney

Judith Tweedie, MD(Res)

  • Thesis title: Professional identity formation in physicians in training
  • Supervisors: Ann Griffin

Dr Gianpaolo Manalastas, PhD

  • Thesis title: Bridging the gap between patient agency and doctor authority: how structure interacts with power in the consultation 
  • Supervisors: Lorraine Noble, Ann Griffin, Rowena Viney

Student testimonial: “Doing my PhD in the UCL Medical School allowed me to conduct research that could have real impact on how medical education is taught and assessed. I had a fantastic team of supervisors who supported all my goals, refined my ideas and encouraged me to take all the opportunities available to develop as a researcher.”

Ahmed Rashid, MD(Res)

  • Thesis title: Global approaches to medical school regulation
  • Supervisors: Ann Griffin, Deborah Gill

Dr Emily Unwin, PhD

  • Thesis title: Gender differences in the professional performance of doctors practising in the UK
  • Supervisors: Jane Dacre, Katherine Woolf and Henry Potts

Student testimonial: “The UCL Doctoral School provides a large selection of high-quality courses to support the graduate student. My PhD supervisors have been particularly supportive in providing me with networking opportunities and I have met some very interesting people.”
 

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