2019

Professor Ian Curran
Duke-NUS Medical School
Vice Dean of Education

Previously, he was Assistant Director of Education and Professional Standards at the UK General Medical Council where he led education policy, regulatory and quality assurance work in postgraduate medical education across the UK. His achievements at GMC include the development of the innovative ‘Generic Professional Capabilities Framework’, revision of the GMC Curriculum Standards and Assessment Systems ‘Excellence by Design’, and development of the ‘Promoting Excellence’ Education Standards for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Education and Training for the UK.

Prof Curran trained as an Anaesthetist with an interest in chronic pain management and was appointed Consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 2003 where he was made Professor of Innovation and Excellence in Healthcare Education in 2014. Prof Curran developed and led London’s multiaward-winning Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning Initiative. This initiative was awarded the BMJ Award for ‘Excellence in Healthcare Education’ in 2011 and HSJ Award for Patient Safety in 2009. He is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London.)

2016

Professor Olle ten Cate
University Medical Center Utrecht
Professor of Medical Education and Director of the Center for Research and Development of Education

Olle ten Cate attended medical school at the University of Amsterdam and spent his professional life from 1980, serving medical education. In 1986, he obtained a PhD in social sciences. Until 1999, he was involved in many preclinical and clinical curriculum developments, educational research and program evaluation. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Medical Education at the University Medical Center Utrecht and program director of undergraduate medical education. Since 2005, he has led the Center for Research and Development of Education at UMCU.

His research interests include curriculum development, peer teaching, competency-based medical education, and many other topics. Between 2006 and 2012, he served as President of the Netherlands Association for Medical Education. In 2012, he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, alongside his work in Utrecht.

Professor ten Cate has published extensively in the medical education literature and is and has been involved in supervising over 25 doctoral students in health professions education research.

2015

Professor Albert Scherpbier
Maastricht University, Netherlands
Professor of Medical Education and Director of the Center for Research and Development of Education

Professor Scherpbier studied Philosophy and Medicine at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands and has worked at Maastricht University since 1991.

Professor Scherpbier is particularly interested in workplace learning and skills training. His PhD thesis, “Quality of skills training assessed”, was obtained at Maastricht University.

2014

Professor Cees van der Vleuten
Maastricht University, Netherlands
Professor of Education, Scientific Director, School of Health Professions Education

Professor van der Vleuten’s specific interest is in assessment of professional competence and the evaluation of educational interventions. He has a general interest in evaluative and theoretical research in PBL. Professor van der Vleuten has an educational role as the coordinator of the assessment and evaluation project in the Faculty of Medicine.

2013

Professor Geoff Norman
McMaster University, Canada
Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Professor Norman's academic interests focus on the psychology of expertise, particularly as applied to expert clinicians.

His research is focused on the psychology of clinical reasoning, particularly in the relative contribution of rapid processing based on prior experience (so-called pattern recognition) and analytical rules, and educational strategies to improve reasoning.

Additionally, he has strengths and interests in measurement and statistics. Other research interests include methods of student assessment and psychometric methods.

2012

Professor Steven Durning
Uniformed Services University, USA
Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Programs in Health Professions Education

Professor Durning completed his medical degree in the USA and his PhD at Maastricht University. His thesis explored the influence of contextual factors on clinical reasoning. Professor Durning’s Oration was entitled New Frontiers in the Assessment of Clinical Reasoning.