Andrew Elder is a consultant physician in acute medicine for older people, and former medical director of MRCP(UK). He is the current president of the

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Biography

Andrew Elder qualified in medicine (

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) in 1982 from the

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. He was medical director of MRCP(UK) from 2013 - 2018 and before this the chair of the Clinical Examining Board for MRCP(UK), responsible for the international PACES examination. He is recognised as an expert in the teaching and assessment of the core clinical bedside skills of observation, communication, history taking and physical examination. Two other medical directors of MRCP(UK), Dame

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and Dr Neil Dewhurst, have become college presidents, the former for the

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, and the latter for the

. He led the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC) Assessment Committee from 2015-2018, and promoted common practices in the detection of plagiarism in high stakes medical examinations and training in unconscious bias for clinical examiners. He is a

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at Stanford University Medical School on the Stanford 25 Program in Bedside Medicine In 2015 he was appointed honorary professor at

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. In 2018 he became a CASBS Fellow with the Presence Center at

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exploring the impact of the increasing prevalence of frailty and dependency in older age on medical care and society in general. Following this Fellowship he was appointed as Presence Scholar. In March 2020 he took office as

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of the

, resigning on the 29 May 2020. He was re-elected President early in 2021 and assumed office for a second time on 1 June 2021. Elder was awarded Mastership of the

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(MACP) in October 2021, the first doctor practising in Scotland to be so honoured, and only the second in the United Kingdom since inception of the award in 1923.

References

Living people Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1958 births {{UK-med-bio-stub