Dr Abeysinghe has a longstanding commitment to medical education and has contributed extensively to both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching across the West Midlands. He has developed assessment content and served as an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, reflecting his particular interest in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine. He is an accredited Educational Supervisor and a Fellow of Advance HE.
Dr Abeysinghe is currently Associate Clinical Professor in Medical Education at the University of Birmingham and Head of Phase 2 of the MBChB programme. In this role, he provides strategic and operational leadership for the design, delivery and ongoing development of Years 3, 4 and 5 of the programme. He is a member of the MBChB senior management team and line-manages Heads of Year. He co-designed and delivered the transition curriculum following the introduction of the Medical Licensing Assessment and is currently co-designing a new curriculum and assessment strategy scheduled for implementation in September 2026.
He has extensive experience in assessment, serving as a senior invigilator for clinical examinations and the Applied Knowledge Test, authoring items for both the Medical Licensing Assessment and internal OSCEs, and contributing as a senior member of examination boards. He has previously served as an External Examiner at St George’s, University of London.
His teaching portfolio spans a wide range of interprofessional programmes, including Advanced Clinical Practice MSc modules for paramedics and Adult Critical Care Practitioners. He is also an instructor across all three Advanced Life Support courses. In addition, he has designed and delivered continuing professional development programmes in emergency airway management for nursing staff and resident doctors working in critical care, and has contributed to numerous emergency, anaesthetic and pre-hospital education initiatives.
For the past decade, Dr Abeysinghe has also been Deputy Head of the Undergraduate Academy at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he has been responsible for the delivery of the fifth-year undergraduate curriculum for students from both the University of Birmingham and Aston Medical School.
Dr Neil Abeysinghe holds dual specialist accreditation in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, having completed his postgraduate training in London, Oxford and the West Midlands. He was appointed as a Consultant in 2011 to a major tertiary referral centre, where he continues to practise clinically with a focus on Trauma and Neurocritical Care.