Professor Edward Basil Peile

National Teaching Fellow 2007 Professor Edward Peile is Professor Emeritus of Medical Education at Warwick Medical School. Appointed Associate Dean (Teaching) in 2004 and later Head of the Institute of Clinical Education, Ed transformed the Institute into a multi-disciplinary educational environment whose fame spread throughout the UK medical community. "Ed leads from the front," comments the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at Warwick, "inspiring those around him with a thirst for learning. Ed is an example of modern medical education at its best." Ed has worked in the relatively new discipline of graduate entry medicine for several years. When he started teaching in the field, he was concerned about what clinical experience he could offer to novice learners in their first weeks to inspire them. Ed prepared students to listen to patients telling their stories in clinical settings, and concentrated on facilitating hard-to-get experiences for students, helping them feel that they had started on the road to doctoring while also learning communication skills. Ed earned a reputation for innovation in undergraduate curriculum design and championed the professional project at Warwick as an alternative to a research dissertation in all Masters courses. He hopes this prevents research "by the unwilling in pursuit of a higher degree" and frees up the time of researchers to supervise those practitioners who are driven to engage in research, and whose research is therefore more likely to benefit patient care. Ed has been an editorial advisor in medical education to the British Medical Journal where he developed new ventures to develop clinicians who teach. He was also a Subject Specialist Advisor to the Higher Education Academy's Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV). Actively researching the potential for teaching values-based practice as a component of clinical reasoning, Ed is involved in teaching Medical Education at Masters' level, research supervision and consultancy on curriculum development. In January, 2009, Ed took over as the editor of the Journal, Education for Primary Care.