Dr Ashley Reece
Senior Clinical Lecturer

Membership and affiliation

British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI), Member

Academy of Medical Educators - Founder Member (2009); Fellow (2015)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2007)

Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME), Member

Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), Member

Media interests

I led the project that secured ‘Teaching Hospital’ status for West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in 2021 (West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust wins 'teaching' status | Watford Observer). Nationally, I chaired the RCPCH’s START assessment board (2012–2016), originating the first assessment of consultant readiness in UK paediatric training, which was the only formative end of training assessment in the UK. I served as RCPCH Officer for Assessment (2016–2021), overseeing the College’s assessment strategy and supporting its GMC curriculum revision submission. My work on undergraduate OSCE standard-setting is published in Medical Education, and I co-developed a medication safety huddle (the ‘Druggle’) that was a finalist for the HSJ Patient Safety Award and featured in the BMJ.

Selected publications

Reece A, Chung EMK, Gardiner RM & Williams S. Competency domains in an undergraduate Objective Structured Clinical Examination: their impact on compensatory standard setting. Medical Education. 2008;42(6):600–606.

Ashley Reece & Lucy Foard (2020) START – evaluating a novel assessment of consultant readiness in paediatrics: The entry not the exit. Medical Teacher, 42:9, 1027–1036.

Reece A and Klaber R. Maximising learning on ward rounds. Archives of Disease in Childhood Education and Practice Ed, 2012;97:61–67.

Mahase E. Sixty seconds on … the druggle. BMJ 2020;369:m2075.

Yip A, Reece A. Can ingesting local honey reduce symptoms of allergic rhinitis (hay fever) in children and young people? Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2023.

Co-Editor, Clinic Cases in Paediatrics: An Outpatient Manual (2nd edn). Cohn A & Reece A (eds). Jaypee Medical Publishing, 2025.

For the full list of publications, see: Ashley Reece Publications 2025