Dr Zachary Millar

Zachary Millar is an anaesthetist. He has interests in professional skills, interprofessional education and pain management, especially non-invasive treatments.

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Background

Zachary is currently developing and delivering the MBChB Professional Skills (Developing the Medical Professional) curriculum. He has research interests in interprofessional education, specifically how personal and professional biases may contribute to how we learn from other professions. He completed a Medical Education Fellowship in AY22/23 at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge.

Zachary is a Core Anaesthetics Trainee in the East of England. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2020 and completed foundation training in Peterborough City Hospital. He has a subspecialty interest in pain management and is beginning research into transcranial magnetic stimulation and pulsed electromagnetic field therapies.

Research interests

• Interprofessional education
• Pain management

Zachary is researching feedback in interprofessional education learning encounters. There are an increasing number of ‘interprofessional’ learning sessions, such as when medical and nursing students learn from doctor and nurse educators. He is interested in how we perceive feedback from those in our ‘out-group’ as compared to that from our ‘in-group’, how those perceptions and biases develop, and how we can mitigate for them in medical education.

Clinically, Zachary is researching the use of magnetic field therapies in treating pain. This nonpharmacological and noninvasive approach avoids the side effects of medications and the risks of invasive surgical procedures.

Teaching

• MBChB – Professional Skills (Developing the Medical Professional)

Qualifications

• BA(Cantab) in Psychology, University of Cambridge
• MB BChir, University of Cambridge
• MA(Cantab), University of Cambridge
• MSc in Pain Management, University College London
• Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education, University of Cambridge

Memberships, editorial boards

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy