Email: C.R.Stephens@soton.ac.uk
After a career as a general medical practitioner and then in medical education leading the medical student expansion in 2002 creating the BM4 and BM6 programs, Chris retired in 2015. The next few years were spent undertaking medical education consulting and quality assurance in Finland, Georgia, Mauritius , the Caribbean and USA.
Emeritus Professor Medical Education; Between 2010 - 2015 he was Associate Dean (Education and the Student Experience) for the Faculty of Medicine where he had responsibility for leading the development and implementation of Faculty educational strategy, student recruitment, educational innovation, educational quality assurance and enhancing student experience.Since 2015 he has carried out several medical educational quality assurance and advisory roles, both in the UK and Internationally, including in 2018 being one of three international experts reviewing the five Finnish medical schools for the Finnish government. This resulted a report and recommendations , as well as a user friendly summary.