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Dr Emer Forde

  • Programme Director
  • BGB
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Journal Articles

  • Scott, R., Forde, E. and Wedderburn, C., 2022. Refugee, Migrant and Asylum Seekers’ Experience of Accessing and Receiving Primary Healthcare in a UK City of Sanctuary. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 24 (1), 304-307.
  • Forde, E., Butcher, A., Fraser, A., Phillips, S. and Turner, M., 2021. Virtual training in the practical management of emergencies in primary care: Making a virtue out of necessity. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning, 7 (6), 648-649.
  • Thurston, E., Forde, E. and Wedderburn, C., 2020. The value of ‘expert trainees’ in primary care postgraduate education. Education for Primary Care, 31 (4), 255-256.
  • Forde, E., Scallan, S., Jackson, S., Bowditch, W. and Wedderburn, C., 2020. Can the arts enhance postgraduate GP training? Education for Primary Care, 31 (2), 98-103.
  • Scott, R., Forde, E. and Wedderburn, C., 2019. GP trainees’ experience, knowledge and attitudes towards caring for refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. Education for Primary Care, 30 (5), 322-323.
  • Forde, E., Bromilow, J., Jackson, S. and Wedderburn, C., 2019. Managing emergencies in primary care: Does real-world simulation-based training have any lasting impact? BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning, 5 (1), 54-55.
  • Simon, C., 2018. Debate & Analysis What is the root cause of the GP workforce crisis? British Journal of General Practice, 68 (677), 589-590.
  • Rutherford, Forde, E., Priego-Hernandez, J., Butcher, A. and Wedderburn, C., 2018. Using photography to enhance GP trainees' reflective practice and professional development. Medical Humanities, 44 (3), 158-164.
  • Murphy, J., Mayor, A. and Forde, E., 2018. Identifying and treating older patients with malnutrition in primary care: The MUST screening tool. British Journal of General Practice, 68 (672), 344-345.
  • Forde, E., Bromilow, J. and Wedderburn, C., 2018. Practical management of emergencies in primary care: Taking simulation out of the classroom and into real-life environments. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning, 4 (1), 43-44.
  • Butcher, A., Jones, A., Forde, E. and Wedderburn, C., 2014. Supporting newly qualified GPs: an evolving education programme in Dorset. Education for Primary Care, 25 (6), 353-356.
  • Forde, E., 2010. Category specific recognition impairments: A review of important case studies and influential theories. Aphasiology, 13 (3), 169-193.
  • Forde, E., Rusted, J., Mennie, N. and Humphreys, G., 2010. The eyes have it: An exploration of eye movements in action disorganisation syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 48 (7), 1895-1900.
  • Forde, E., Gleeson, R., Bates, E. and Draper, H., 2008. Medical students' attitudes towards abortion: A UK study. Journal of Medical Ethics, 34 (11), 783-787.
  • Forde, E. and Humphreys, G., 2007. Contrasting effects of repetition across tasks: Implications for understanding the nature of refractory behavior and models of semantic memory. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
  • Forde, E. and Thomas, R., 2005. The role of local and global processing in the recognition of living and nonliving things. Neuropsychologia.
  • Forde, E. and Humphreys, G., 2005. Naming a giraffe but not an animal: Base-level but not superordinate naming in a patient with impaired semantics. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
  • Forde, E. and Humphreys, G., 2005. Is oral spelling recognition dependent on reading or spelling systems? Dissociative evidence from two single case studies. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
  • Forde, E. and Lyons, A., 2004. Food Allergy in Young Adults: Perceptions and Psychological Effects. Journal of Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary, International Journal, 9 (4), 497-504.
  • Forde, E., Humphreys, G. and Remoundou, M., 2004. Disordered Knowledge of Action Order in Action Disorganisation Syndrome. Neurocase.
  • Forde, E., Singh, K., Barnes, G., Hillibrand, A. and Williams, A., 2002. Task-Related Changes in Cortical Synchronization Are Spatially Coincident with the Hemodynamic Response. NeuroImage.
  • Forde, E., Thomas, R., Humphreys, G. and Graham, K., 2002. A Longitudinal Study of Category-specific Agnosia. Neurocase, 8 (6), 466-479.
  • Forde, E. and Humphreys, G., 2002. The role of semantic knowledge in short-term memory. Neurocase.
  • Forde, E. and Humphreys, G., 2001. Hierarchies, similarity, and interactivity in object recognition: "Category-specific" neuropsychological deficits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24 (3), 453-476.
  • Forde, E. and Humphreys, G., 2000. The role of semantic knowledge and working memory in everyday tasks. Brain and cognition, 44 (2), 214-252.
  • Forde, E. and Humphreys, G., 1997. A semantic locus for refractory behaviour: Implications for access-storage distinctions and the nature of semantic memory. Cognitive neuropsychology, 14 (3), 367-402.
  • Forde, E., Edelstyn, N., Humphreys, G., Riddoch, J. and Oyebode, F., 1996. Visual processing in patients with Frégoli syndrome. Cognitive Nueropsychiatry, 1 (2), 103-124.
  • Forde, E. and Humphreys, G., 1995. Refractory semantics in global aphasia: on semantic organisation and the access-storage distinction in neuropsychology. Memory, 3 (3), 265-307.

Books

Chapters

  • Forde, E., Humphreys, G., Steer, E. and Connelly, C., 2007. Executive functions in name retrieval. Automaticity and Control in Language Processing. Psychology Press.
  • Forde, E., Humphreys, G. and Riddoch, J., 2002. The principle of target-competitor differentiation in object recognition and naming. Category Specificity in Brain and Mind. Psychology Press.
  • Forde, E., 2001. Mind blind for blindness: A psychological review of Anton’s syndrome. Classic Cases in Neuropsychology. Psychology Press.
  • Forde, E., 2001. Mind blind for blindness: A psychological review of Anton’s syndrome. Classic Cases in Neuropsychology. Psychology Press.
  • Forde, E., Humphreys, G. and Riddoch, J., 2001. The planning and execution of everyday actions. The Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology What Deficits Reveal about the Human Mind. Psychology Press.
  • Forde, E., Humphreys, G. and Francis, D., 2000. The organisation of sequential actions. Attention & Performance. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • Forde, E. and Humphreys, G., 2000. Category-specific recognition impairments: A review of important case studies and influential theories. Exploring cognition: Damaged brains and neural networks (Readings in cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modelling. Psychology Press.
  • Forde, E., 1999. Category specific recognition impairments. Studies in the Neuropsychology of Vision. Psychology Press.

Conferences

  • Forde, E., Knight, A., Steele, G., Lyness, E., Wedderburn, C. and Butcher, A., 2021. Can virtual International exchanges improve primary health care? In: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) conference: A fresh approach to general practice 11-12 February 2021 Online.
  • Forde, E., Knight, A., Wedderburn, C. and Lyness, E., 2021. Can virtual international exchanges offer a means to enhance doctors global health competences?: Views from GP trainees. In: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) conference: A fresh approach to general practice 11-12 February 2021 online.
  • Forde, E., Scott, R. and Wedderburn, C., 2021. Refugee and vulnerable migrants' experience of NHS primary care. In: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) conference: A fresh approach to general practice 11-12 February 2021 Virtual.
  • Forde, E., Jackson, S., Butcher, A. and Wedderburn, C., 2021. Upskilling GP Trainees in Lifestyle Medicine. In: RCGP February 2021 11-12 February 2021 Virtual.
  • Spalding, B., Wedderburn, C., Eastwick-Field, P., Maloney, A., Bromilow, J. and Forde, E., 2018. Can somebody find the defibrillator? Evidence based support for in-situ training in primary care. In: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Conference 4-6 October 2018 Glasgow.
  • Forde, E., Kay, S., Crowe, S., Lehman, C. and Burley, S., 2018. Tackling preventable morbidity and mortality requires integrated working between General Practice and Public Health. In: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Annual Conference 4-6 October 2018 Glasgow.
  • Forde, E., Jones, A., Wedderburn, C. and Fraser, A., 2018. Time to 'go global' with GP education. In: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Annual Conference 4-6 October 2018 Glasgow.
  • Forde, E., Bromilow, J. and Wedderburn, C., 2017. Teaching through ‘real-life’ simulation of emergencies in primary care: It’s serious because time matters. In: Healthcare simulation: playing seriously. COPMRE 18 October 2017 Bournemouth University.
  • Forde, E., Wedderburn, C. and Bromilow, J., 2017. Managing emergencies in the community: taking simulation out of the classroom and into real life environments. In: An International Association for Medical Education (AMEE) 26-30 August 2017 Helsinki. https://amee.org/getattachment/Conferences/AMEE-Past-Conferences/AMEE-2017/AMEE-2017-Conference-Programme.pdf.
  • Forde, E., Kahal, H., Wong, X. and Coppini, D., 2008. Diabetic foot ulcers, A 2 year follow-up study. In: Diabetic Foot Study Group (DSFG) meeting 11-14 September 2008 La Lucca, Italy.
  • Forde, E., 2006. Medical students views on abortion. In: Society for Academic Primary Care (South West meeting) 1 January 2006 Birmingham.

Films

Posters

Grants

  • The practical management of emergencies in primary care (Health Education Wessex, 08 Feb 2016). Completed

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

  • British Journal of General Practice, Anonymous peer review, 31 Aug 2017

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • On-line exhibition as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2016

Conference Presentations

  • Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) conference: A Fresh Approach to General Practice, Can Virtual International Exchanges (VIE) improve primary health care, 11 Feb 2021, Virtual

Qualifications

  • MRCGP in Member Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP, 2013)
  • MBCHB (Honours) in Medicine (University of Birmingham, 2007)
  • PhD in Neuropsychology (University of Birmingham, 1996)
  • BA (Hons) in Natural Sciences (University of Cambridge, 1992)

Honours

  • Highly commended finalist Health Education England (HEE) Wessex Shine awards: Education and Training Innovation Champion of the Year (Health Education England (Wessex), 2016)
  • Barker memorial medal for outstanding performance in medicine (University of Birmingham, 2007)
  • Arthur Thompson prize for academic excellence (University of Birmingham, 2004)
  • Elizabeth Warrington prize - awarded for distinguished work in neuropsychology by a person at an early stage in their career (British Neuropsychological Society, 2004)

Networks

  • Dorset Global Health Network