Patrick is dually accredited in Internal Medicine and General Practice. An Irish graduate, he spent 10 years in the rural fenlands of Cambridgeshire, and then 13 years in Fort William, rural Scotland. He now runs the Ventilator Unit at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in (not-so-rural) London. 
His MSc dissertation (Medical Education) was on effective reflective practice. He is Lead Convenor for RSCEd’s Training the Trainers Faculty. 
He is a fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of both Edinburgh & London, the Royal College of General Practitioners, and this year was awarded FRSCEd (ad hominem) by the President & Council for over a decade of training surgical educators.