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Dr Libby Thomas, BMBS, DCH, FRCEM, PhD

Libby

Reader in Clinical Education; Clinical Programme Coordinator

Centre: Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma

Email: libby.thomas@qmul.ac.uk
Website: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/libby-thomas-079732157
Twitter: @libbylilias

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Libby is a clinical academic with a passion for Medical Education and Emergency Medicine. She has a PhD in Medical Education and has taught extensively for more than 15 years. She is a Reader in Clinical Education at Queen Mary University of London, working primarily on the Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine MSc programme and, since 2024, she is the Clinical Programme Coordinator, Blizard Institute helping to support and develop all the postgraduate clinical programmes offered by the Blizard Institute.

Libby is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and the Emergency Medicine Specialist Interest Group (SiG) lead for ASPiH (Association of Simulated Practice in Healthcare). She has recently held roles as a Clinical Education Associate at NHS Elect and external expert advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Libby has led numerous interprofessional education teams producing high quality, complex training for a variety of local and national stakeholders, spanning interprofessional and international boundaries. She can offer expertise in educational theory, design, delivery, assessment and educator training with a current passion for harnessing digital technologies.

Teaching

  • MSc Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine
    Roles: Summer School, Simulation & Human Factors Vertical Curriculum and Module 7 Toxicology and CBRN Module Lead, as well as faculty development, course development and student experience.
  • SSC supervisor FMD MBBS programme
  • Academic Advisor MBBS Programme

Research

Publications

Key Publications

Jaye P, Thomas L, Reedy G (2015). ‘The Diamond’: a structure for simulation debrief. The Clinical Teacher vol. 12 , (3) 171 – 175   10.1111/tct.12300

WHO implementation guidance on emergencies capacity-building: Approaches for just-in-time learning response to health emergencies 23 September 2024

Thomas L, Davis T, Millar L, Patrick K, Townsend E (2024). View from perimenopause. Emergency Medicine Journal vol. 41 , (12)   10.1136/emermed-2024-214190

All Publications

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