I have taught at UNSW Sydney for over 20 years, the past fifteen years as Convenor of the Clinical Skills element of the UNSW Medicine program (BMed MD), a role which I retain since being appointed as a UNSW Nexus Fellow in 2023. My teaching in Medicine relates to communication, physical examination and procedural skills. As such, I focus on the interaction and

In this lecture, I describe the development of my teaching practice, based in experience and evidence, naming the challenges associated and describing the solutions that have contributed to success. 

Reviewing this, it is easy to see how my current interest has developed into oral assessment, especially with regard to disciplinary oracy, as a cross-institutional approach to

A major challenge I faced when first teaching and convening the Clinical Skills (CS) sessions in Phase 1 of the medical program was engaging and managing up to 30 students per class, and, from the perspective of Convenor, for multiple sessions thereof (it takes 20 sessions across a fortnight to teach every student in the Phase in a skills session). To meet this

As can be seen from the rest of my portfolio, whilst I directly teach for a proportion of my role, a much larger part of my work is directed to effective leadership, support, development and coordination of this very significant teaching effort. As evidence and recognition of the enormous scope of this coordination, management and support role, in 2011, I was

In addition to Chair of CLAC, I sit on numerous other committees and working groups. For example, at the Faculty level, I was selected in a competitive application process at the start of 2017 to be an inaugural member of the Medicine Equity, Diversity and

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