Professor Gillian Needham
Postgraduate Dean
As Regional Postgraduate Dean for the North of Scotland I am responsible for leading a deanery team and quality managing the training of all postgraduate doctors-in-training, across the 5 Health Boards of Grampian, Highland, Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles. I am specialist registered as a Clinical Radiologist and practise full time in my NES role. Programme design for a region with a high proportion of rural and remote placements has allowed us to offer many innovative rotations across some of the most beautiful and challenging geography in Europe. My team is distributed with bases in Inverness (the Centre for Health Sciences, Raigmore Campus) and Aberdeen (Forest Grove House, Foresterhill Health Campus) ensuring our trainee doctors have excellent access to the deanery support they need.
I have led a multi-professional work stream for NHS Scotland to develop support for remote and rural healthcare education. Focussing on relevant support, content and technological innovations for access the RRHEAL (Remote and Rural Healthcare Educational Alliance) is now established with a permanent base and staff in the Centre for Health Sciences, Inverness. We are proud to report that we have successfully integrated teleEducation into our normal service of education provision and have built upon that technological strength as we have led developments such as the Leadership and Management Programme (LaMP) for NES.
