Responsible for maintaining and developing high quality medical education and training within their NHS Board.
Directors of Medical Education (DMEs) are consultants or doctors appointed to NHS Boards. Each DME works in close collaboration with the Postgraduate Deans.
DME's are responsible for ensuring that trainers and trainees employed by their NHS Board are fit to practice.
Each DME ensures that their NHS Board delivers the high standards of postgraduate medical education required by NES and the General Medical Council.
| Health Board | Name | |
| Ayrshire & Arran | Hugh Neill | hugh.neill@aaaht.scot.nhs.uk |
| Borders | Olive Herlihy | olive.herlihy@borders.scot.nhs.uk |
| Dumfries & Galloway | Dr Pete Armstrong | peter.armstrong@nhs.net |
| Fife | Morwenna Wood | Fife-UHB.MedicalEducation@nhs.net |
| Forth Valley | Kate Patrick | kate.patrick@nhs.net |
| Golden Jubilee National Hospital | Alan Kirk | alan.kirk@gjnh.scot.nhs.uk |
| Grampian | Kim Milne | nhsg.medicaleducationteam@nhs.net kimmilne@nhs.net |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | Dr Lindsay Donaldson | lindsay.donaldson@nhs.net |
| Highland | Helen Freeman | hfreeman@nhs.net |
| Lanarkshire | Dr Ian Hunter | ian.hunter-DME@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk |
| Lothian | Dr Simon Edgar | DME-PA@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
| Orkney | Helen Freeman | hfreeman@nhs.net |
| Shetland | Pauline Wilson | paulinewilson@nhs.net |
| Tayside | John Davidson | john.davidson2@nhs.net |
| Western Isles | Antima Banerjee | antima.banerjee@nhs.net |
Contacts up to date as at 04.11.2019.
