Pedagogical Research
As an Education Focused academic at UNSW my research program is pedagogical in nature and focuses on learning and assessment of clinical skills. I have published regularly over recent years, as shown in my ORCID profile (see link). My most important outputs are first-author papers I published in
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