I am a Professor of Medical Education and teach the subjects of Pharmacology & Biochemistry to our undergraduates on the Medicine (MBBCh) degree programme. Understanding how drugs work is a vital component of training doctors to become safe prescribers.Although we only ever want drugs to have a therapeutic effect, we also have to recognise that all medications have the potential to cause unwanted side effects, so a greater understanding of how drugs work can help to reduce the incidence of 'adverse drug reactions'.To help our students learn about the drugs that can be used across all medical specialities covered in the course, I use a range of teaching, applied and digital techniques that help explain the effects of drugs. This involves contextualising the use of medications that target a specific system (or tissue) within the human body, so I create immersive teaching materials that cover everything from cardiology to immunology to psychiatry... and everything in between.I have won a number of awards for my innovative approaches to teaching, and I have a particular interest in creating interactive and visually stimulating Digital Learning Resources that Medical Students can use to enhance their knowledge of a particular subject area. I am a Senior Fellow of Advance Higher Education.I am also the Deputy Director of the Hybrid & Interactive Virtual Environments (HIVE) group- the School of Medicine's Digital Education & Innovation Hub