Profiles
Dr Samantha Regan de Bere
Lecturer in Medical Humanities
Peninsula Medical School (Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry)
Role
Deputy Director for the Collaboration for the Advancement of Medical Education Research and Assessment (CAMERA) at Plymouth University
Academic Lead for Medical Humanities at Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry
Academic Consultant to Schwartz Rounds at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
Vice President of the Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) UK
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Sociology and Psychology
PgDip Research
MSc Social Research
PhD Military Research
Professional membership
Association for Medical Humanities (AMH)
British Sociogical Association Medical Society (BSA MedSoc)
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
Roles on external bodies
Vice President of Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) UK
Teaching interests
Medical humanities, medical ethics and metaphysics, professionalism and identity,
Research interests
Medical humanities, patient centred education and care, discursive methodologies, cultural historical activity theory
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Supervisions in last five years:
PhD Exploring the Impacts of Technological Innovation in Education in Oman (Al Hajiri, A)
PhD The Art and Science of Patient-centred Medicine (Williams, L)
PhD The Art and Science of Patient-centred Medicine (Williams, L)
PhD Deconstructing, Contextualising and Assessing Management and Leadership Criteria (Hanks, S)
Grants & contracts
In the past five years:
Regan de Bere, S (principal investigator), Nunn, S & Nasser, M
Understanding Differential Attainment: a narrative synthesis review
GMC. £39,000 (2015)
Archer, J, Boyd, A, Regan de Bere, S (co-applicant), Walshe, K, & Woods, K
Evaluation of Revalidation in England
Department of Health PRP. £650,000 (2015)
Archer, J & Regan de Bere, (co-applicant)
Revalidation: the evidence for revalidation and the options for revalidation in the Australian context
Medical Council of Australia. £33,000 (2015)
Archer, J, Cameron N, Laugharne, K, Marshall, M, Regan de Bere, S (co-applicant), Walshe, K, WIlson, S & Wright, R
Evaluation of Revalidation in the UK: a four country collaboration
GMC. £525,000 (2015)
Regan de Bere, S (principle investigator), Nunn, S & Archer, J
What is Revalidation? In public
Health Foundation. £90,000 (2014)
Archer, J, Lynn, N & Regan de Bere, S (co-applicant)
Reviewing the evidence for a National Licensing Exam: a systematic review
GMC. £22,000 (2014)
Regan de Bere, S (principle investigator), Archer, J & Bryce, M
Review of decision making in the General Medical Council's Fitness to Practise Procedures
GMC. £86,000 (2014)
Development of an evaluation framework for Revalidation
GMC. £80,000 (2014)
Archer, J & Regan de Bere, S (co-applicant) & Brennan, S
Strategic review of Medical Council Professional Competence Arrangements
Medical Council of Ireland. £50,000 (2013)
Davies, A, Regan de Bere, S (co-applicant) & Ayres, R
Separating the wheat from the chaff: evaluating workshops as a pedagogic platform for medical education
DME Award. £6,800 (2013)
Regan de Bere, S (principal investigator), Nunn, S, Archer, J & Chatterjee, A
Patient and Public Involvement in Regulation
RST, Department of Health. £20,000 (2013)
Archer, J & Regan de Bere, S (principal investigator) and Nunn, S
Understanding the rise in fitness to practice complaints from the public
GMC. £65,000 (2013)
Regan de Bere, S (principal investigator), Ayres, R & Davies, A
Evaluating the role of the medical humanities in patient-centred learning: a study of interprofessional interaction
DME Award. £6,800 (2012)
Archer, J, Regan de Bere, S (co-principal investigator) & Anderson, A.
What is Revalidation? In Practice. A single site study.
Archer, J & Regan de Bere, S (principal investigator) and Nunn, S
Understanding the rise in fitness to practice complaints from the public
GMC. £65,000 (2013)
Regan de Bere, S (principal investigator), Ayres, R & Davies, A
Evaluating the role of the medical humanities in patient-centred learning: a study of interprofessional interaction
DME Award. £6,800 (2012)
Archer, J, Regan de Bere, S (co-principal investigator) & Anderson, A.
What is Revalidation? In Practice. A single site study.
Health Foundation. £90,000 (2012)
Regan de Bere, S (principal investigator) & Barnes, R.
“The Art and Science of Knowing Patients: students talk with and about patients”.
PhD Studentship (2011)
Archer, J, Regan de Bere, S (co-principal investigator) & Corrigan, O.
What is Revalidation? In Policy.
Regan de Bere, S (principal investigator) & Barnes, R.
“The Art and Science of Knowing Patients: students talk with and about patients”.
PhD Studentship (2011)
Archer, J, Regan de Bere, S (co-principal investigator) & Corrigan, O.
What is Revalidation? In Policy.
Health Foundation. £90,000 (2010)
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2016
'Towards a pedagogy for patient and public involvement in medical education'
Medical Education
50,
(1)
79-92
, DOI
2015
'“No One Has Yet Properly Articulated What We Are Trying to Achieve”'
Academic Medicine
90,
(1)
88-93
, DOI
2014
'Revalidation: Patients or process? Analysis using visual data'
Health Policy
114,
(2-3)
128-138
, DOI
2011
'Students' Views on the Impact of Peer Physical Examination and Palpation as a Pedagogic Tool for Teaching and Learning Living Human Anatomy'
Medical Teacher
2010
'From anatomical 'competence' to complex capability. The views and experiences of UK tutors on how we should teach anatomy to medical students'
Advances in Health Sciences Education
15,
(4)
573-585
2010
'The transition from medical student to junior doctor: Today's experience of Tomorrow's Doctors'
Medical Education
44,
(5)
449-458
, DOI
2006
'Availability of a virtual learning environment does not compensate for the lack of a physical facility'
Medical Teacher
28,
(3)
258-263
2006
'Dissecting medicine: gender biases in the discourses and practices of medical anatomy'
Medicalized Masculinities
2006
'Out of the dissecting room: news media portrayal of human anatomy teaching and research'
Social Science & Medicine
63,
(1)
76-88
, DOI
2004
'How we teach anatomy without cadavers'
Clinical Teacher
1,
(2)
49-52
2004
'Key issues in educational evaluation research: a case study'
Social Research
2003
'Evaluating the Implications of Complex Interprofessional Education for Improvements in Collaborative Practice: a multidimensional model'
British Educational Research Journal
29,
(1)
105-125
, DOI
Chapters
2011
'Key Issues in Educational Evaluation Research: a case study'
in David M; Sutton CD
Social Research
SAGE
2009
'Crisis or renaissance: A sociology of anatomy in UK medical education'
in Bronson C; Turner B
Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education
Oxford
Routledge.
2009
'Dissecting Medicine: gender biases in the discourses and practices of medical anatomy'
in Rosenfeld D; Faircloth C
Medicalized Masculinities
Temple University Press
2003
'Men, Families and Resettlement'
in Higate P
Military masculinities
Praeger Publishers
Conference Papers
0
'Do virtual communities form within a cohort of face to face learning students?'
Proceedings of Iadis conference web-based communities
01/01/2005
Internet Publications
2008
'Is anatomy different? A survey of views of UK anatomy tutors'