Dr Michael Page

Profile

Michael is Reader in Education and co-lead for the MA in Education for Clinical Contexts. He established the UK’s first degree apprenticeship in Clinical Education and has also recently served on the Trailblazer group for the pioneering Doctor Apprenticeship.

Prior to joining QMUL, Mike was Associate Professor of Medical Education at UCL and, before that, Head of Education Programmes at the Royal College of Physicians, London, where he served on the RCP Senior Leadership Team.  

Mike is an experienced teacher and programme developer who has designed and delivered postgraduate and CPD programmes in medical education and leadership throughout the UK and internationally, including Switzerland, Brunei, Iceland, Lebanon and Slovakia.

Mike’s research interests are broad, covering fitness to practise, regulation, identity formation, curriculum development and assessment. He is particularly interested in the professional development of Specialty and Associate Specialist (aka SAS) doctors.

Teaching

Co-lead for the MA in Education for Clinical Contexts

Co-lead for IHS7010 Teaching and Learning in Clinical Education

Co-lead for IHS7012 Clinical Curricula evaluation and development

Co-lead for IHS7015 Dissertation module on the MA

Dissertation supervisor on the MSc Physician Associate Studies

Dissertation supervisor on the iBSc Medical Education

Dissertation supervisor on the iBSc Prehospital Medicine

Module lead for Doctors as Teachers and Educators (DATE)

Medpro tutor

PBL facilitator

OSCE examiner

Research

Research Interests:

Mike’s research interests are broad, covering fitness to practise, regulation, identity formation, curriculum development and assessment. He is particularly interested in the professional development of Specialty and Associate Specialist (aka SAS) doctors.

Publications

Carty, E. and Page, M. (2021) 'I brought that up in my appraisal...and my consultant said no.' Structure and agency in Specialty and Associate Specialist (SAS) doctors' experiences of appraisal, Clinical Medicine (May 2021).

Carty, E. and Page, M. (2021) ‘SAS Appraisal – time to challenge the narrative?’ RCP Commentary (March 2021).

Page, M., Crampton, P., Viney, R., Knight, L. & Griffin, A. (2020) Teaching medical professionalism: a qualitative exploration of persuasive communication as an educational strategy, BMC Med Educ 20, 74 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-1993-0 

Crampton, P.E.S., Mehdizadeh, L., Page, M., Knight, L. & Griffin, A. (2019) A realist evaluation of UK medical education quality assurance, BMJ Open 2019;9:e033614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033614

Page, M., Gardner, J. & Booth, J. (2019) Validating written feedback in clinical formative assessment, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 45:5, 697-713, DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2019.1691974

Woolf, K., Page, M. & Viney, R. (2019) Assessing professional competence: a critical review of the Annual Review of Competence Progression, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 112(6): 236-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076819848113

Schofield, L. & Page, M. (2019) ‘It has a lot more to contribute than just the teaching’: Perceptions of participants in a peer-observation programme to develop clinical teaching Future Healthc J 6(S1):s170; doi:10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s170http://futurehospital.rcpjournal.org/content/6/Suppl_1/170.full.pdf+html?sid=b1227fd5-da3a-449b-94bf-1f84b8aafde

Page, M. & Smets, M. (2019) Doctors as institutional entrepreneurs – leading quality improvement in clinical contexts, Future Healthc J 6(S2):s56; doi:10.7861/futurehealth.6-2-s56 http://futurehospital.rcpjournal.org/content/6/Suppl_2/56.full.pdf+html?sid=b1227fd5-da3a-449b-94bf-1f84b98aafde

Griffin, A.E., Crampton, P., Mehdizadeh, L., Page, M., Knight, L., Rich, A. & Viney, R. (2018) Understanding stakeholder perspectives on the GMC’s quality assurance of medical education and training, University College London. Research report commissioned by the GMC. https://www.gmc-uk.org/about/what-we-do-and-why/data-and-research/research-and-insight-archive/medical-training-quality-assurance-review

Griffin, A.E., Knight, L., Page, M., Crampton, P., Viney, R. & Rich, A. (2018) A critical evaluation of the London GP trainer programme, University College London. Research report commissioned by Health Education England. https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/publication/1628310/1

Griffin, A. E., McKeown, A. & Page, M. (2017). Evaluating the Programme for Integrated Child Health, University College London. Research report commissioned by Health Education England.

Woolf, K. & Page, M. (2017) Academic support for the Assessment and Appraisal Workstream of Health Education England’s review of the ARCP, University College London. https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Academic%20support%20for%20the%20Assessment%20and%20Appraisal%20workstream%20ofHealth%20Education%20Englands%20review%20of%20the%20ARCP.pdf