David Matheson

Contact

• workRoom B94C Medical School
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 823 0033
• fax0115 823 0014
• david.matheson@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

Pedagogical, course design and delivery and evaluation, qualitative research, quantitative research, questionnaire design, mentoring, web design, informatics and clinical education, assessment theory and practice, nurturing new writers in education, research supervision, developing bespoke courses on medical education, speaker of French to native speaker standard, native speaker of Scots, good notions in Spanish, some competence in Italian and Danish

Teaching Summary

Dr Matheson is the module convenor for the postgraduate modules Assessment in Clinical Education and Informatics in Clinical Education and for the undergraduate special study module in Health and… read more

Research Summary

Dr Matheson is currently researching on a wide range of themes, including the use of Wikipedia as an aid to clinical decision-making, teaching of cataract surgery and health and safety in… read more

Selected Publications

• ALEXANDER, P., MATHESON, D., BAXTER, J. and TINT, NAING L., 2012. United Kingdom national cataract training survey Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery. 38(3), 533-538
• MATHESON, C. and MATHESON, D, 2009. How well prepared are medical students for their first year as doctors? The views of consultants and specialist registrars in two teaching hospitals. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 85, 582-9
• MATHESON, C.B., MATHESON, D.J., SAUNDERS, J.H. and HOWARTH, C., 2010. The views of doctors in their first year of medical practice on the lasting impact of a preparation for house officer course they undertook as final year medical students. BMC medical education. 10(1), 48
• MATHESON, C. and MATHESON, D., 2010. Preparedness for practice of Foundation Trainees and impact of workplace based assessments in the East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery

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• IPS and TACS (see research)- Director
• PEST (see research)- project lead on behalf of East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery
• Member of United Kingdom Foundation Programme Office Group for Promoting Excellence in Foundation Training
• Educational consultant for IMPACT (Ill Medical Patient Acute Care and Treatment)
• Reviewer of articles for a number of journals including Medical Education, Clinical Teacher, and Compare
• Reviews books proposals for Routledge
• Member of the editorial board for Raisons, Comparaisons, Éducations
• External expert for the Swiss Federal Government, the Canton of Valais, and the International Labour Office
• Personal tutor to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and is a fully trained mentor.
• Vice-chair for the Prep F1 course, a week-long course for final year students on how to cope with first year of medical practice. This course is followed by two weeks of shadowing.

Dr Matheson is the module convenor for the postgraduate modules Assessment in Clinical Education and Informatics in Clinical Education and for the undergraduate special study module in Health and International Development.

Current Research

Dr Matheson is currently researching on a wide range of themes, including the use of Wikipedia as an aid to clinical decision-making, teaching of cataract surgery and health and safety in ophthalmology.

Other topics of research include:

• Perceptions of preparedness for practice of new doctor and what is important for a new doctor.
• The lasting impact of the preparation for F1 course.
• How education supervisors are conceptualised, in conjunction with East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery.
• Finals-Oriented OSCE Training scheme [FOOT]: Evaluation of this is ongoing and work around FOOT has been presented at various international and national conferences.
• Programme of Education Supervisor Training (PEST) scheme. Evaluation of this is ongoing.
• The lasting impact of the Teaching Improvement Programme System (TIPS) and Teaching and Assessing Clinical Skills (TACS).

• MATHESON, D. and ROLAND, D., 2012. ‘Understanding the Application of Evidence-Based Medicine. A New Theory Derived from Old Educational Techniques: The Rolma 1 and 2 Matrices': Clinical Teacher Clinical Teacher. Accepted
• ALEXANDER, P., MATHESON, D., BAXTER, J. and TINT, NAING L., 2012. United Kingdom national cataract training survey Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery. 38(3), 533-538
• KEOGH, M., FINDLAY, J., SITHAMPARANATHAN, S. and MATHESON, D., 2010. Education in the Foundation Programme: what doctors are doing and why British Journal of Medical Practitioners. 3(1), 306
• MATHESON, C.B., MATHESON, D.J., SAUNDERS, J.H. and HOWARTH, C., 2010. The views of doctors in their first year of medical practice on the lasting impact of a preparation for house officer course they undertook as final year medical students. BMC medical education. 10(1), 48
• MATHESON, C. and MATHESON, D., 2010. Preparedness for practice of Foundation Trainees and impact of workplace based assessments in the East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery
• MATHESON, D. and MELVILLE, C., 2010. To what extent does the Foundation Programme ‘add value’ to trainees? Research Report on behalf of the UKFPO, submitted as evidence to the Collins Inquiry 2010
• MATHESON, C. and MATHESON, D., 2010. Results of the national survey of Foundation Year 2 trainees, research report for the United Kingdom Foundation Programme Office
• MATHESON, C. and MATHESON, D., 2009. Déballage d'idées, catégorisation et hiérarchisation comme activités structurées en groupe focalisé Pédagogie Médicale. 10(1), 61-64
• MATHESON, C. and MATHESON, D, 2009. How well prepared are medical students for their first year as doctors? The views of consultants and specialist registrars in two teaching hospitals. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 85, 582-9
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 2008. Access and Accessibility in E-Learning. In: DONNELLY, R and MCSWEENEY, F, eds., Applied eLearning and eTeaching in Higher Education IGI Global, Hershey, PA. 153-174
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 2008. Lifelong Learning. In: MATHESON, DAVID, ed., An Introduction to the Study of Education 3rd. London: David Fulton. 302-318
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 2008. Community development: Freire and Grameen in the Barrowfield Project, Glasgow, Scotland Development in Practice. 18(1), 30-39
• MATHESON, D, 2008. What is education?. In: MATHESON, DAVID, ed., An Introduction to the Study of Education 3rd. London: David Fulton. 1-16
• MATHESON, D, 2008. Afterword: Now that I have read about Education, how do I write about it?. In: MATHESON, DAVID, ed., An Introduction to the Study of Education 3rd. London: David Fulton. 334-352
• MATHESON, DAVID, ed., 2008. An Introduction to the Study of Education 3rd. David Fulton.
• DENNICK, R, MATHESON, D, FITZGERALD, E, 2007. Teaching and assessing clinical skills The Higher Educational Academy medicine , dentistry and veterinary medicine newsletter.
• MATHESON, D, 2006. Talking Poverty: Urban Scots and Deprivation: a study of a disparaged language. In: CAMP-YEAKEY, C, ed., Suffer the little children
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 2005. La formation des enseignants en Angleterre : Responsabilités accrues et déprofessionalisation ou les conséquences d’un système national qui vise à dépenser le moins possible Journal de l’AFEC 10 : La formation des enseignants : permanence, changements, tensions actuelles. Analyses comparées. (In Press.)
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 2004. Research in Professional Practice. In: COLES, A, ed., Teaching in Post-Compulsory Education: Policy, Practice and Values London: David Fulton. 172-189 (In Press.)
• MATHESON, D, 2004. What is education?. In: MATHESON, DAVID, ed., An Introduction to the Study of Education 2nd. London: David Fulton. (In Press.)
• MATHESON, DAVID, 2004. An introduction to the study of education: edited by David Matheson London : David Fulton, 2004.
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 2003. La formation des enseignants en Ecosse et en Angleterre : contextes et avenirs Actes de la Recherche. 1(1), 5-24
• MATHESON, D, 2002. The National Education System of Scotland. In: GRIFFIN, R, BROCK, C, ed., Education in the British Isle Saxmundhen: John Catt.
• MATHESON, D, 2002. Limited language in limited minds? Urban Scots as a language of poverty Marges linguistiques. 3, 106-117
• MATHESON, CATHERINE and MATHESON, DAVID, 1957-, 2000. Educational issues in the learning age: edited by Catherine Matheson and David Matheson London : Continuum, 2000.
• MATHESON, D, 2000. Scottish Education: myths and mists Oxford Studies in Comparative Education. 9(2), 63-84
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 2000. Languages of Scotland: Culture and the Classroom Comparative Education. 36(2), 221-231
• BILL RATTAREE, DAVID MATHESON, CATHERINE MATHESON, BRIAN CALDWELL, GERARD CALNIN, ANTHONY TWIGGER, MARILYN DAVIES AND KEITH DRAKE, 2000. Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-first Century: The changing roles of educational personnel Geneva: International Labour Office.
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 2000. Educational spaces and discourses. In: MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, ed., Educational Issues in the Learning Age London: Continuum. 1-12
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 2000. Education and Lifelong Learning “systems”. In: MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, ed., Educational Issues in the Learning Age London: Continuum. 196-215
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 2000. Education and cultural identity. In: MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, ed., Educational Issues in the Learning Age London: Continuum. 1-12
• MATHESON, D, 1999. ‘(Re-)creating Cultures through the Curriculum: Scottish culture and the Scottish school – attitudes in formal education. In: D LAWTON, J CAIRNS AND R GARDNER, ed., Values and the Curriculum: The School Context London: IOE occasional paper. 117-131
• MATHESON, D, WELLS, P, 1999. What is Education?. In: MATHESON, DAVID, ed., An Introduction to the Study of Education London: David Fulton. 1-14
• MATHESON, D, 1999. The University. In: MATHESON, DAVID, ed., An Introduction to the Study of Education 157-169
• GROSVENOR, IAN and MATHESON, DAVID, 1957-, 1999. An introduction to the study of education: edited by David Matheson and Ian Grosvenor London : D. Fulton Publishers, 1999.
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 1999. Lifelong Learning and Economics in Switzerland’. In: ALEXIADOU, R, BROCK, C, ed., Education as a Commodity Saxmundhen: John Catt. 135-148
• MATHESON, D, 1999. Lifelong Learning. In: MATHESON, DAVID, ed., An Introduction to the Study of Education 170-181
• MATHESON, D, 1998. Attitudes to immigrants in adolescent boys in a small Glasgow Catholic secondary school. In: CORNER, T, ed., Scientific Racism: what price objectivity? Glasgow: University of Glasgow.
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 1998. Problématique régionale et questions linguistiques en Ecosse. In: PEREZ, S, ed., La Mosaïque linguistique: Regards éducatifs sur les pays industrialisés Paris: L'Harmattan. 41-80
• MATHESON, D, 1996. Imperial Culture and Cultural Imperialism European Journal of Intercultural Studies. 7(1), 51-56
• MATHESON, C AND MATHESON, D, 1996. Lifelong Learning and Lifelong Education: a critique. Research in Post-Compulsory Education. 1(2), 219-236
• MATHESON, D, 1996. An examination of some of the difficulties of establishing an open university in a small linguistic area: the case of Suisse romande International Journal of Lifelong Education. 15(2), 114-124
• MATHESON, D, 1995. Adult Education in Suisse romande Compare. 25(2), 115-136
• MATHESON, D, 1992. Profil et analyse de l’Open University britannique Berne: Swiss Science Council.
• MATHESON, D, 1991. Non-formal, non-vocational further education in the Highland Region of Scotland and the Canton of Valais in Switzerland comparative education. 26(2), 153-164