Since the establishment of the Centre, work has been undertaken on a wide range of research projects, with about 12 current at any one time.  In this period, broad areas of enquiry have included:

• Selection
• Curriculum and assessment
• Careers support
• Continuing Professional Development
• Multi-professional education and training
• Systematic reviews

CRMDE is a partner in the NHS National Genetics Education and Development Centre, which was established in 2004 to provide a focal point for genetics education and training in the NHS. 

Each year we co-host the Birmingham Conference. This is an educational conference for health care professionals hosted jointly with our partners, the West Midlands Workforce Deanery.  The theme for the 2007 conference was team working and patient safety.

We are now building on our research projects by developing teaching programmes. These include research methods courses for the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) and the Postgraduate Certificate in Education for Health Professionals, led by the Schools of Education and Medicine, University of Birmingham.

Latest Dental Education Report

The following full report, downloadable as a pdf document, contains the results from our latest dental education report: Firmstone, V, Bullock, A. and Frame, J (2009) Dental Therapists in the West Midlands: A Study of Educational Needs and Teamwork Issues in Primary Care Dentistry. Final Report [pdf, 3 MB, opens new window]

If you would prefer to download only the Executive Summary [pdf, 624 KB, opens new window] of this work, this can be downloaded here as a separate pdf document.

If you have any questions about this study, please contact Vickie Firmstone by email at v.r.firmstone@bham.ac.uk or by telephone on 0121 414 4404.

For your own hard copy of the Final Report or Executive Summary please contact:

Magdalena Skrybant
School of Education
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham, B15 2TT

Tel: 0121 414 4855
Fax: 0121 414 4865
Email: M.T.Skrybant@bham.ac.uk