HTA License Holder

Dr Roger Searle,
University of Newcastle

As Director of Anatomy and Clinical Skills at Newcastle University and Human Tissue Authority (HTA) Designated Individual, I have the legal responsibility for the regulated activities of anatomical examination at Newcastle University and its satellite sites at Durham University Queen’s Campus, the Temporal Bone Laboratory at James Cook University University Hospital Middlesbrough and at the Newcastle Surgical Training Centre at Freeman Hospital. As lead anatomist I have developed the teaching strategy for anatomy and clinical skills teaching in the undergraduate medical course and advised on the facilities for anatomy and clinical skills teaching at Newcastle University branch campus in Malaysia. I am a member of the Executive Committee of Newcastle Surgical Training Centre which uses human tissues for surgical skills simulation and places Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust at the forefront of surgical skills training in UK.

My academic interests are focussed on anatomy and clinical skills, especially developing clinical skills resources and teaching strategies. I have a track record in medical education developing teaching strategies in clinical simulation education. As the grant holder (PI) and manager of an EU Tempus Joint European Project (€454,055.00) I led an EU consortium with partners from the European Surgical Institute (Hamburg, Germany) and the European Institute for Telesurgery (Strasbourg, France) to introduce safe simulation for clinical skills training into the undergraduate medical degree course at Cairo Medical School (Egypt) and train Egyptian Faculty staff as clinical skills and surgical skills trainers; this had a modernising impact on the traditional medical degree curriculum and hospital training programmes at Cairo University. I was promoted to a Personal Readership in Anatomical Sciences and Clinical Skills in the School of Medical Sciences Education Development in 2009