• Design-1: Designs curricula, learning activities and resources to enable a range of learners to achieve course and program learning outcomes
  • Design-2: Engages students as partners in development of curricula, learning activities and resources
  • Design-3: Designs and sequences assessment tasks aligned with course and program learning outcomes
  • Design-4: Provides students with constructive, actionable feedback on their performance and analyses assessment results to inform teaching practice
SimConverse: AI-powered Virtual Patients for communication skills development - a Nexus, SOCM (MPR/Rural) and TST/MHEDU collaboration!

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

Volunteer Simulated Patient Program (SPP) including the Online Simulated Patient Interaction and Assessment (OSPIA) platform

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

Nexus Cross-Faculty project: Oral assessment and disciplinary oracy

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

Development of Teaching

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