Development of a prescribing assessment tool
Start date
October 2020End date
October 2021Summary
The project aims to develop a veterinary-specific version of the Prescribing Safety Assessment to support training and assessment of undergraduate veterinary students.
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Team
Surrey Lead
Dr Martin Hawes
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Biography
Martin originally trained as an hospital pharmacist before moving to the pharmaceutical industry, where he spent 20 years in human drug discovery and development. In 2012, he took a career break to read veterinary medicine, and graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London in 2016. Martin worked as a companion animal vet before joining the University of Surrey in 2018 part-time to teach veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics. Martin was awarded the British Pharmacological Society Student Choice Award for Excellence in Pharmacology Teaching in 2021, the British Small Animal Veterinary Association Amoroso Award for Teaching in 2022, and the British Pharmacological Society Rang Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching in 2024. In addition to his role at Surrey, Martin is a Visiting Associate Professorial Teaching Fellow at Aston University and a Resident of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Martin is active in Health Professions Education research and is the FHMS Theme Lead for Education Research.
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