MBChB, BScMedSci(Hons), MSc(Clin Ed) Dist., FHEA, FAcadMEd
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- 51cg
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- Email Address
- craig.brown@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
1:09
Suttie Centre for Teaching & Learning in Healthcare
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition



Biography
Director of Clinical Skills & Simulation (NHS Grampian & 51cg)
Consultant in Emergency Medicine (Aberdeen Royal Infirmary & Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital)
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer (51cg)
Qualifications
- MBChB Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery2007 - 51cg
- BScMedSci(Hons) Bachelor of Science in Medical Sciences2007 - 51cg
- FRCEM Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine2017 - Royal College of Emergency Medicine
- MSc(ClinEd) Clinical Education2021 - 51cg
External Memberships
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators
Member of the British Medical Association
Latest Publications
Training the next generation of simulation educators: a scoping review of peers and near-peers undertaking Faculty roles within undergraduate health professions simulation
Journal of Healthcare SimulationContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Extended reality and computer-based simulation for teaching situational awareness in undergraduate health professions education: a scoping review
Advances in Simulation, vol. 10, no. 1, 18Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A scoping review of scoping reviews in healthcare simulation: A research protocol
Journal of Healthcare Simulation, vol. 2025Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Simulation demystified and reimagined- using simulation to transform clinical practices
Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 224-227Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Near-peer faculty within simulation-based education in healthcare: A scoping review protocol
Journal of Healthcare Simulation, vol. 2025, pp. 1-5Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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- Research
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Research Overview
Simulation based medical education.
Supervision
MSc(Clin Ed)- Supervisor
BScMedSci- Co-Supervisor
MBChB- Elective supervisor
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Honorary senior clinical lecturer in clinical simulation- MBChB
Masters in Clinical Education
- Publications
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Simulation for the masses not masses of simulation- The integrated use of simulation and PRS voting system to assist in teaching clinical decision making for medical students.
Contributions to Conferences: Papers- [ONLINE]
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Validity of a simulated Anaphylaxis station in a final year OSCE as preparedness for practice
Contributions to Conferences: Papers- [ONLINE]
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Clinical Teaching Fellows: best of both worlds.
The Clinical Teacher, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 136-137Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Emergency in the Emergency Department: Recruitment & retention of EM trainees in Scotland. A mixed-methods countrywide study
5th National Scottish Medical Education Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2015.Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts- [ONLINE]
Money makes the (medical assessment) world go round: The cost of components of a summative final year Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
Medical Teacher, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 653-659Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Should we be “quarantining” students for Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs)?
Medical Teacher, vol. 37, no. 1Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI:
Things that go bump in the day or night: the aetiology of infant head injuries presenting to a Scottish Paediatric Emergency Department
Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Identifying foot fractures and dislocations
Emergency nurse : the journal of the RCN Accident and Emergency Nursing Association, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 30-34Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Assessment Overload?
Medical Teacher, vol. 37, no. 3Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI:
Novel methods of teaching diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) diagnosis and management in a clinical curriculum: Sim-DKA
Practical Diabetes, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 207-211Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Clinical Teaching Fellowships.
Contributions to Conferences: PostersTrauma Simulation: Workshop
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsSimulation for the masses not masses of simulation: Workshop
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsThe development of a multi-task simulation scenario for final year repeating medical students: Sim-DKA.
Scottish Clinical Skills Network/Association of Simulated Practitioners in HealthcareContributions to Conferences: Posters- [ONLINE]
Coeliac Axis Dissection Secondary to Blunt Abdominal Trauma: A case report and review of the literature
Injury Extra, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 19-21Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
The use of multi-task based simulation for teaching medical students diagnosis and management of DKA.
Contributions to Conferences: PostersMoney makes the (medical assessment) world go round: How costly is the OSCE?
4th Scottish Medical Education ConferenceContributions to Conferences: Posters- [ONLINE]
A Shoulder to Cry Over
The College of Emergency Medicine.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsThe Knee Bone's Connected To...
The College of Emergency Medicine.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsThings that go bump in the day or night. The aetiology of infant head injuries presenting to a Scottish Paediatric Emergency Department
College of Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific ConferenceContributions to Conferences: PostersAre the kids all right?
Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland.Other Contributions: Other Contributions- [ONLINE]
Never a dull moment
Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland. 2 pages.Other Contributions: Other Contributions- [ONLINE]
Safeguarding Children: Recognition and response in child protection
British Medical Journal, vol. 341, c5568Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI:
Situs inversus abdominalis and duodenal atresia: A case report and review of the literature
South African Journal of Surgery, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 127-30Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Latex: Assessing the risks
Scottish Primary Care, vol. 49, no. 24Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDoes freezing whole semen affect sperm quality?: O68
Fertility 2005 (4th Joint meeting of the British Fertility Society, British Andrology Society and the Society for Human Reproduction), pp. 139-140Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts- [ONLINE]
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