- Design-1: Designs curricula, learning activities and resources to enable a range of learners to achieve course and program learning outcomes
Volunteer Simulated Patient Program (SPP) including the Online Simulated Patient Interaction and Assessment (OSPIA) platform
My SPP and OSPIA initiatives are intimately linked to a thriving UNSW Medicine-community relationship, which I have built up over a decade or more. On this success, during those years, the SPP has been highly commended in UNSW Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement and twice been shortlisted for an Australian Financial Review Higher Education
Development of Teaching
Developing my teaching is extremely important to me. The main thrust of this development has been to leverage the opportunities afforded by technology, to enhance my teaching and student learning, as well as to deliver on
SimConverse: AI-powered Virtual Patients for communication skills development - a Nexus, SOCM (MPR/Rural) and TST/MHEDU collaboration!
Across 2024/2025, I led implementation of a large-scale educational innovation using SimConverse, an AI-driven virtual patient (VP) platform, to enhance teaching of advanced communication skills in the Medicine program and addressing a persistent challenge in medical education: the provision of consistent, high-quality experiential learning in communication across large and
Nexus Cross-Faculty project: Oral assessment and disciplinary oracy
The Oral Assessment (OA) project - a cross-Faculty collaboration / whole of institution Nexus project - explores the design and implementation of authentic, scalable oral assessments across disciplines at UNSW. The initiative responds to the pressing challenges posed by generative AI to the validity of traditional written assessments and aims to enhance the authenticity and integrity