I’m a Paediatric Registrar in South-East Scotland, UK. Since August 2023 I’ve been working as a Clinical Fellow in Medical Education with a focus on Simulation-Based teaching at the University of Edinburgh (as and Out of Programme Experience). I am interested in neonatal medicine, family-integrated care and trauma-informed lens in paediatrics and neonatology as well as simulation in medical education.

Qualifications

Dr Maggie Frej

  • currently studying towards a PGCert in Medical Education and Simulation at the University of Edinburgh

  • MRCPCH, 2023

  • MBChB Medicine, Commendation, University of Glasgow 2015

  • BSc (Hons) Medical Sciences, University of Edinburgh 2010

Memberships and Professional Affiliations

Publications

Frej, M. (2025). “Are You a Cleaner? No, I'm a Doctor. Re: ‘It's the Way I Talk, Y'knaa?’: Accent, Dialect, Assumptions and Bias in Medical Education”, Clinical Teacher, https://doi.org/10.1111/tct.70131

Frej, M., Skinner, J., & Close, L. (2025). “ It’s high time for TIME”. Medical Teacher, 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2025.2515983

Awards & Recognitions

  • Winner of the Best Poster Presentation at the 2022 BAPM conference. Abstract titled:” Bringing joy to neonatal Unit - one door sign at a time”

  • Awarded the essay in Medical Ethics , 2014, Glasow

  • Pathological Society Undergraduate Bursary, Cancer Research UK, Edinburgh, 2011

  • Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research in Edinburgh, 2009

Selection of past projects

  • Bringing Joy to Neonatal Unit - One Door Sign at a Time

    A creative project I undertook in COVID pandemic while working in SImpson’s Centre for Reproductive Health in Edinburgh. I created 30 door signs for the neonatal unit and gatehred feedback on the impact of artwork on staff and families. The project won the best poster presentation at BAPM Conference in 2022.

    View and download all NICU Door Signs

  • Golden Drops QI Project

    A collaborative QI project aiming to increase the percentage of premature infants receiving maternal breastmilk in the first 24 hrs of their lives.

    Explore and Download all Golden Drops Resources

  • GCS at 40

    A website I designed in collaboration with Prof Graham Teasdale and his team to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Glasgow Coma Scale.

    Glasgow Coma Scale at 40

  • “We elicit from the world what we project into the world; but what you project is based upon what happened to you as a child.”

    Bruce D. Perry

  • “Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.”

    Bessel A. van der Kolk

  • "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

    Maya Angelou

  • "For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens."

    Athul Gawande