I am part of the group of academics who led the curricular reform process that led to the current UNSW Medicine program. I played a particularly significant role in designing and refining the scenario-based-learning approach that characterises Phase 1 of the medicine program. I also based my own doctoral research project in scenario-based learning. I am part of the first group of facilitators

As an integral part of the Formative Peer Review of Teaching process, I led the development of a reviewer training package and am conducting training across faculties. At the outset it is important to note that this activity was strongly supported by a team that includes Patrick Rawstorne, Lois Meyer, Reema Harrison and Husna Razee. The team was strongly supported by an

I was invited to design and deliver training programs for medical educators from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. I designed and delivered an executive education program for these colleagues, who visited UNSW over two programs of two-weeks each in 2018 and 2019. As part of this program, over 100 academics from SJTU participated in the program over three iterations in 2018-2019.

One of my key curricular design initiatives that has driven high-quality learning within a course that I convene (MFAC1527), relates to a series of revision activities that I designed, to be embedded throughout the course. This activity is introduced on day 1, with time allocated in weeks 2, 4, 6, with a final collated revision activity at the end of the

I led a multidisciplinary team from various institutions across Australia, to publish an ANZAHPE 50th Anniversary paper on the Future of Health Professional Education. I led the team to generate a future-ficussed paper that was firmly grounded in the literature. This paper was published in June 2024 (Balasooriya et al 2024). The paper includes recommendations to shape the future of