Programme Director Dr Graham R. Nimmo (BSc, MBChB, MD (Edin), EdD (Stir), FRCP (Edin), FFARCSI, FFICM) Professional Development Lead MSc in Critical Care Deanery of Clinical Sciences College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Contact details Email: v1gnimm2@exseed.ed.ac.uk Web: MSc in Critical Care BackgroundHe is extensively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate, multi-professional clinical education. He was an author of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) curriculum for doctors training in Intensive Care, and lead for the development and production of the FICM curriculum for training Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (ACCP). He edits the Lothian Adult Medical Emergencies Handbook. He is a Past President of the Scottish Intensive Care Society and a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.He has experience in the development and delivery of online learning as course lead for Acute Medicine and Clinical Decision Making, MSc Internal Medicine 2013 to 2019 and as Deputy Programme Director, MSc Internal Medicine 2016-2018. During this time, he developed and led the Improving Diagnosis, Palliative Care and Pain Management, and Intensive Care courses in this programme.He is lead for Critical Care for the Edinburgh Surgical Sciences online programmes including the MSc course, and the critical care component of the ChM Trauma and Orthopaedics.Research overviewHe was awarded an MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1996, Cardiorespiratory and Metabolic Changes in Shock and Critical Illness.More recently Graham was awarded a Doctorate of Education from the University of Stirling in 2014, the title of his thesis “Materialities of clinical handover in intensive care: challenges of enactment and education”. Other research interestsClinical decision making and improving diagnosis Clinical handoverHuman factors in Critical CareThe aim of my teaching and educational endeavours is to improve clinical care by enabling health care providers to apply knowledge and skills in an integrated approach to patients, by minimising adverse events and improving clinical human factors and critical clinical decision making. I am developing a research approach based on qualitative methods to examine how our educational interventions actually impact on patient outcomes, clinical and humane.CollaboratorsMartin HughesPat CroskerryAwardsCitations for teaching excellence, University of Edinburgh 2001 & 2002NHS Lothian Mentor of the Year jointly with Jane McNulty 2014Acute Care Advanced Practice Annual award for contribution to Advanced Practice in Scotland 2017Edinburgh Surgical Sciences Masters Programmes Tutor of the Year 2019PublicationsCroskerry P, Nimmo G. Better clinical decision making and reducing diagnostic error. J R Coll Physicians Edinb 2011:41:155-162.doi:10.4997/JRCPE2011.208Hughes M, Nimmo G. Models of Clinical Reasoning in ABC of Clinical Reasoning 2016 Ed Cooper N, frain J BMJ pp. 17-21.Nimmo GR, Shippey B. Clinical skills in intensive care. Chapter 13 Oxford Textbook of Critical CareEds Webb A, Angus D, Finfer S, Gattinoni L, Singer M. 2016.DOI:10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0013Shippey B, Nimmo GR. Simulation in intensive care. Chapter 14Oxford Textbook of Critical Care Eds Webb A, Angus D, Finfer S, Gattinoni L, Singer M. 2016DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0014 This article was published on 2024-09-24
