When I took over PHCM9391 Health Organisations, Strategy and Change in 2022, two reviews of the Master of Health Leadership and Management (MHLM; the reviews were a UNSW Academic Program Review and an independent program review in 2021-2022) had found that this core course needed to cover a wider range of topics. I also found that its aims and

In most courses I have taught in or reviewed, assessment weights rise across the term. The biggest and most-weighted task has been at the end, so students receive feedback on about half or less of their overall marks before the task that has the highest stakes. In redesigning PHCM9391 I tried to change this. The sequence is now front-weighted, so

TEQSA's 2025 guidance on assessment reform asked universities to explain how their assessments were secured without giving them much guidance on how to answer the question. For mostly online postgraduate programs with working cohorts like the ones I teach in, the return to examinations and oral assessment that most institutions have reached for are among the least suitable or feasible.

The School of Population Health has many alumni, conjoint and adjunct staff who work in health services and want to contribute to our teaching. I wanted to draw on that goodwill and expertise so that students in PHCM9615 Primary Health Care could connect what they were learning with the experience of people working in the field. In 2020 and 2021 I interviewed 15 experts in integrated care and