Andrew Elder MBChB, FRCPEdin, FRCPSG, FRCPLond, FICP(Hon), FACP

Andrew Elder has been appointed Honorary Professor in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine. Professor Elder is the Medical Director of MRCP(UK), which provides postgraduate examinations in internal medicine and its specialties to 25,000 candidates a year globally. He was previously Chair of the Clinical Examining Board for the MRCP(UK) Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills (PACES) examination, the largest international postgraduate clinical skills assessment in the world.

He has held several positions in undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching and assessment and has personally taught or assessed bedside clinical skills in 20 countries. He has been a consultant in the National Health Service since 1993 and is currently a Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine for Older People at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh.