National Teaching Fellowship Scheme - Higher Education Academy

Dr Undrell Moore
Senior Lecturer in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Newcastle University
Dr Undrell Moore teaches oral and maxillofacial surgery to a wide range of learners with the main
emphasis on dental undergraduates at the very start of their clinical career. He strives to ensure that
his students learn to take responsibility for their decision making and clinical treatments. Since arriving
at Newcastle he has enhanced the system of learning and teaching in the clinical environment which
has helped to focus the learning experience with the emphasis on student centred teaching.
The changes to the course have been enthusiastically received by students, who thrive on the
challenges inherent in this clinical environment. Comments include: “I loved it. Can’t wait to come
back. Lovely environment, lovely helpful people” and “Best time yet in 3rd year!”
As part of the course development he initiated a portfolio which formed the basis of the essential
feedback required to allow students to become their own teachers and engage in the process of
lifelong learning.
Undrell has been instrumental in resurrecting a defunct textbook, Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery, as editor, to support the teaching in Newcastle. The fifth edition was republished in 2001 and
subsequently translated into Portuguese for the Brazilian market. A sixth edition was published in 2011
and continues to offer an educational aid based on the broad guiding principles of safe diagnosis and
practice over the range of the specialty. He has also contributed to two other textbooks in his specialty.
Undrell has been the chair of the Stage 3 examination in dental materials and clinical dental subjects
for the past ten years in which time the examination has been radically changed from a traditional
written paper to a series of in-course assessments and objective structured clinical examinations
(OSCE). He has become increasingly interested in the achievement and assessment of competence
in the clinical undergraduate and his workshops have led to international involvement in dental
education through the Association of Dental Education in Europe (ADEE). In 2010 he was invited
to help lead a Special Interest Group within ADEE in competence assessment which is helping to
establish the dissemination of good practice across countries and specialties.
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