Derek Hockaday interviews David Paterson, physiologist and Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, 8 January 2019.
Topics discussed include: (00:00:09) coming from Western Australia to Oxford for doctoral studies; (00:01:58) switching from breathing to the heart and focus on cardiac electrophysiology; (00:03:35) comparison of initially coming as a tutorial fellow to teaching now at Oxford; (00:07:51) administration and divisionalisation; (00:09:51) interactions between clinicians and pre-clinicians past and present; (00:12:24) how funding has changed (not just for Oxford but for Briitsh science); (00:14:13) changes in subjects and information being taught at Oxford; (00:15:00) teaching using HoloLens; (00:18:15) role as professor and head of department; (00:20:30) undergraduate medical students and funding; (00:23:34) admissions to Oxford medical school; (00:28:48) decisions on clinical placements; (00:31:06) work outside of Oxford including editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physiology; (00:33:40) moving from Otago to Western Australia; (00:40:22) comparing medical schools in the United States.
