Matthew Gwee Choon Eng

Emeritus Professor, Centre for Medical Education, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Professor Gwee is currently Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Medical Education of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Professor Gwee is a pioneer in the field of medical education in Singapore and obtained his MHPEd degree from the University of New South Wales in 1981 during the tenure of a WHO Fellowship. He currently serves in several local, regional and international committees, Advisory Boards, as well as the Editorial Boards of Medical Teacher, Medical Education, International Journal of Medical Education and Professor Gwee has been an invited speaker/panellist for several gold standard meetings in medical education in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. He received the prestigious MILES Award in the 3rd Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference 2006, in recognition of his many contributions to Mentoring, Innovation and Leadership in Educational Scholarship.

Professor Gwee has served as: Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy; Member, University Committee on Educational Policy; Associate Director, CDTL (1997-2006); Foundation Member, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee; inaugural Co-Chairman of the Nursing Curriculum Committee, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies; Vice-Dean (1980-1992) and Head, Department of Pharmacology (1987-1997) and Chairman, PBL Committee (2000-2006) in the then Faculty of Medicine, NUS. Professor Gwee has also served as a Member of the Management Committee of the Association for Medical Education in Asia, and also Member, Board of Directors, International Association of Medical Science Educators.

Professor Gwee contributed in many book chapters including “Medical Education: Global Perspectives, Challenges, and Future Directions”, “Globalisation of Medical Education: An Asian Perspective” and “Assessing Anatomy as a Basic Medical Science”. He is the editor for a recent published a book entitled “Educate, Train and Transform: Toolkit On Medical And Health Professions Education”

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