Gerard Gormley
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Professor Gerry Gormley is a clinical academic at Queens University Belfast (QUB). He balances his time between being a General Practitioner and working in the medical school at Queens. He began his academic career as a Clinical Teaching Fellow in 2003. Since then, he has strived for excellence in his teaching and having a positive impact on his students. In 2007 he was promoted to a Senior Lectureship, and then to a Clinical Professorship in Simulation and Clinical Skills at QUB
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Professor Gormley’s main stream of research relates to the simulation based learning in healthcare.
Often technology, rather than pedagogy, predominates in healthcare simulation based education. Using dramaturgical and psychological techniques he aims to create a wide range of explicit and implicit cues that allows a more embodied and immersive simulated learning experience. By taking students to the edge of their clinical competency, in a safe and forgiving environment, students have the potential to gain a greater insight into their actions and behaviours expected of them. By extending the context of simulation into areas that doctors often feel unprepared for such as dealing with ethical and moral dilemmas, is a key feature of my research. Furthermore he is developing novel techniques of data capture in such dynamic simulated learning experiences.
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