Online Pharmacology And Pharmacy Tutor Darren

My teaching experience is mainly at an undergraduate and post-graduate level; to students studying towards biomedical sciences/pharmacology/medical degree awards. I have a broad range of teaching experiences, from one-to-one teaching, PBL to lectures and presentations, as well as practical procedural skills and lab based skills demonstration. I have supervised dissertation projects leading to successful submission and award.

- Formal Teaching Course Participation: Foundation Teaching Skills; Severn Deanery; 2019
- Bed Side Teaching: Various sessions with 3-5th year medical and Physicians Associate students; focus on clinical examination and history taking; medical clerking and formulation of investigation and treatment plans
- Bed Side Teaching: Various clinical skills e.g. cannulation, ultrasound guided venous access, observation measurements, arterial cannulation, arterial blood gas sampling
- Formal teaching sessions:
> Hepatopulmonary and Hepatorenal syndrome; ITU consultants and junior Drs; 2018
> Common drugs of abuse and Toxidromes; ITU consultants and junior Drs; 2019
> Data and evidence from service evaluation on elective alcohol detoxification service; Respiratory consultants , registrars and junior doctors; 2018
- Teaching sessions during medical degree: to GP partners, junior drs and peer medical students; Topics including: Cochrane review summarised and presented – Smoking cessation with e-cigarettes; Ophthalmology examination and childhood squints; Health screen and National Screening Programmes; Autism; The common dementias; Metabolic Syndrome
- Practical supervision of lab based skill development for BSc and MBBS intercalation students; Imperial College London; Including: Radioligand binding studies, autoradiographical analysis, cell culture, assay buffer preparation, differential centrifugation
- Supervision and review of BSc and MBBS intercalation reports for student submission
- Peer review and revision of journal articles for Journal of Neurochemistry

- Peripheral Pharmacology
- Neuropharmacology
- Psychopharmacology
- Receptor Pharmacology
- Cell signalling and molecular biology
- Respiratory, renal, cardiovascular physiology
- Pathophysiology of disease
- Practical lab based skills
- Practical clinical skills
- Academic writing and preparation of lab reports, manuscript, help with data analysis and critical literature review