Professor of Medical Education (Emeritus) University of Dundee and Editor of Medical Teacher. Formerly General Secretary and Treasurer of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) and Teaching Dean & Director of the Centre for Medical Education at the University of Dundee. He is committed to promoting excellence in medical education through the development of new approaches to curriculum planning, assessment and to teaching and learning. Ideas which he has pioneered include the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) which has been universally adopted as a standard approach to assessment of clinical competence, the spiral curriculum and the SPICES model for curriculum planning and models for outcome-based education. He has published more than 400 papers in leading journals. He is co-editor of A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers and the Routledge International Handbook of Medical Education and co-author of Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher, The Definitive Guide to the OSCE, Eight Roles of the Medical Teacher and The Changing Role of Medical Students, recently published.