Relevant publications by the AW team:

Pedagogy of Experience based learning and Act Wisely

Hay A, Smithson S, Mann K, Dornan T. Medical students’ reactions to an ‘Experience Based Learning’ (eXBL)
model of clinical education. Perspectives on Medical Education 2013; 2: 58-71
Dornan T, Tan N, Boshuizen H, Gick R, Isba R, Mann K, Scherpbier A, Spencer J, Timmins E How and what do
medical students learn in clerkships? Experience based learning (ExBL). Advances in Health Sciences Education
2014; 19: 721-49
Dornan T, Conn R, Monaghan H, Kearney G, Gillespie H, Bennett D. Experience based learning (ExBL): clinical
teaching for the twenty-first century. . 2019. AMEE Guide No 129]
Dornan T, Conn R, Monaghan H, Kearney G, Gillespie H, Bennett D. Experience based learning (ExBL): clinical
teaching for the twenty-first century. Medical Teacher. 2019: to complete
Gillespie H, Findlay-White F, Kennedy N, Dornan TL. Enhancing workplace learning at the transition into
practice. Lessons from a pandemic. Med Educ. 2020; 54: 1186-7
Dornan T. A Pedagogy of Uncertainty: opening up fissures in the competence paradigm. Clinical Teacher 2020;
17 (Suppl 1): 24-25
Gillespie H, McCrystal E, Reid H, Conn R, Kennedy N, Dornan T. The pen is mightier than the sword. Reinstating
patient care as the object of prescribing education. Medical Teacher 2021; 43: 50-57
Dornan T, Lee C, Findlay-White F, Gillespie H, Conn R. Acting wisely in complex clinical situations: ‘mutual
safety’ for clinicians as well as patients. Medical Teacher 2021 (in peer review)
Dornan T, Gillespie H, Findlay-White F, Lee C, Reed H, Conn R. Helping clinical students learn to Act Wisely:
situation, act, myself, and check (SMAC). The Clinical Teacher 2021 (in peer review)

Evaluation tools
Manchester Clinical Placement Index

Dornan T, Muijtjens A, Graham J, Scherpbier A, Boshuizen H. Manchester Clinical Placement Index (MCPI).
Conditions for medical students’ learning in hospital and community placements. Advances in Health Sciences
Education 2012; 17: 703-16
Graham J, Dornan T. Clinical teachers’ discourses of a “curriculum-in-action”. Advances in Health Sciences
Education 2013; 10.1007/s10459-012-9437-1
Kelly M, Bennett D, O’Flynn S, Dornan T. Can less be more? Comparison of the Dundee Ready Educational
Environment Measure (DREEM) and a novel 8-item placement quality measure. Advances in Health Sciences
Education 2015; 20: 1027-32
Hyde S, Hannigan A, Dornan T, McGrath D. Medical school clinical placements – the optimal method for
assessing the clinical educational environment from a graduate entry perspective. BMC Medical Education
2017; 18:7. DOI 10.1186/s12909-017-1113-y

Readiness to prescribe questionnaire

Lee C, McCrory R, Tully MP, Carrington A, Donnelly R, Dornan T.  Readiness to prescribe: using educational
design to untie the Gordian Knot. PLOS One 2020; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227865

Practice based learning

Dornan T. On complexity and craftsmanship. Med Educ 2010; 44: 2-3
Dornan T,  Nestel D. Talking, touching, and cutting: The craft of medicine. Journal of Modern Crafts 2013; 6:
35-48
Dornan T. Workplace learning. Perspectives in Medical Education 2012; 1: 15-23
Dornan, T., & Morcke, A. (2013). Work-based, accredited professional education: Insights from medicine. In O.
McNamara, J. Murray, & M. Jones (Eds.), Workplace learning in teacher education (pp. 73–86). Dordrecht:
Springer.
Dornan T, Teunissen PW. Medical Education. In: Billett S, Harteis C, Gruber H. International Handbook of
Research in Professional and Practice Based Learning. 2014. Springer: Dordrecht.
McLellan L, Norris B, Yardley S, de Bruin A, Tully M, Dornan T. Preparing to prescribe: how do clerkship
students learn in the midst of complexity? Advances in Health Sciences Education 2015; 20: 1339-54
McLellan L, Dornan T, Newton P, Williams SD, Lewis P, Steinke D, Tully MP. Pharmacist-led feedback
workshops to increase appropriate prescribing of antimicrobials. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2016;
71: 1415-1425
Dornan T, Gillespie H, Armour D, Reid H, Bennett D. Medical students need experience not just competence.
BMJ 2020; 371:m4298

Patients’ role in medical students’ learning

Bell K, Boshuizen H, Scherpbier A, Dornan T. Undergraduate medical students’ learning from real patients.
Med Educ 2009; 43: 1036-43
Ashley P, Rhodes N, Sari-Kouzel H, Mukherjee A, Dornan T. “They’ve all got to learn”. Medical students’
learning from patients in ambulatory consultations. Med Teach 2009; 31: e24–e31
Mc Lachlan E, King N, Wenger E, Dornan T. Phenomenological analysis of patients’ experiences of medical
student teaching encounters. Med Educ 2012; 46: 963-73
Steven K, Wenger E, Boshuizen H, Scherpbier A, Dornan T. How clerkship students learn from real patients in
workplaces. Acad Med 2014; 89: 469-76

Interprofessional education

Gillespie H, Dornan T. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: the power dynamics of interprofessional education.
Medical Education 2021;