Professor Ronald M Harden OBE MD FRCP (GLAS.) FRCS (ED.) FRCPC
Tay Park House, 484 Perth Road, Dundee DD2 1LR, Scotland
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Professor Ronald Harden graduated from the medical school in Glasgow, UK. He completed training and practised as an endocrinologist before moving full time to medical education.
He is currently Director of Education with the International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS) and is editor of Medical Teacher and General Secretary and Treasurer of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).
Professor Harden was formerly Professor of Medical Education, Teaching Dean and Director of the Centre for Medical Education at the University of Dundee and Consultant Physician, Tayside Health Board.
He is recognised as one of the leading international authorities in medical education with unparalleled experience in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education. He brings to medical education a unique blend of theoretical and practical experience.
Professor Harden is committed to developing new approaches to medical education, curriculum planning and to teaching and learning. Ideas which he has pioneered include the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) which has been universally adopted as a standard approach to assessment of clinical competence. He is currently leading work related to outcome-based education, curriculum mapping, and the application of new learning technologies. Professor Harden has written extensively in his areas of interest and has published more than 400 papers in leading journals.
He has served as a consultant and visiting professor in Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, India and the Far East. His contributions to excellence in medical education have attracted numerous awards including an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, Surgeons of Canada, the prestigious Hubbard Award by the National Board of Medical Examiners in the USA and recognition by the Kellogg Foundation for his contributions to medical education in South America. He was awarded by the Queen the OBE for his services to medical education. In Singapore in February 2006 he was presented with the ‘Mentoring, Innovation and Leadership in Education Scholarship' (MILES) award for ‘outstanding contributions to the advancement of global medical education and academic medicine’.
In 2006 Professor Harden was the winner of the Karolinska Institutet prize for research in medical education. The purpose of the prize is to recognise and stimulate high quality research in medical education in order to promote long-term improvements of educational practices in medical training.