Dr Anna Caley joined the University of Birmingham in 2010 as the 5th Year Lead for Community Based Medicine on the MBChB programme. She developed and ran a successful lecture series for medical students learning about general practice. She became a senior examiner, developing OSCEs and MCQs, and part of the exam boards for final year MBChB. She developed interprofessional teaching sessions and roleplayed scenarios to teach undergraduate students about manging complex clinical cases, professional cases and dealing with uncertainty.
In 2022 she became an Associate Clinical Professor and the Co- Lead for the Transition Curriculum, supporting a successful curricular move to support the Medical Licensing Assessment. She then became a Project Board member of Curriculum 2030, a bold innovative systematic review and updating of the MBChB programme.
In 2025 she took on leadership for the MBChB’s new flagship course the Introductory Clinical Course, to be housed in the innovative new Health Sciences Park. She also leads the Discover Skills for Life Academia and Medicine ( D-SLAM) course for year 1 medical students as they transition to university.
Anna is external examiner for Queen Mary University London, a member of the Ethics board for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust and works as a GP in the West Midlands.