Congratulations to Professor Gary Velan who has had his ANZAHPE Fellowship revalidated for another 5 years. We are excited to retain Gary as one of our long standing Fellows.

About Professor Gary Velan

Professor Gary Velan is an award-winning medical educator at UNSW Sydney. He is currently Senior Vice Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Medicine & Health, and is a previous co-Director of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy. Gary’s innovations include the introduction of online formative assessments to UNSW and the development of virtual microscopy adaptive tutorials. These improved learning outcomes for students in Medicine and Medical Science at UNSW and beyond. He led the Scientia Education Academy in the development of an ePortfolio to enable educators at UNSW to curate and showcase their teaching achievements. He is internationally recognised for research in medical education, focusing on eLearning, assessment and feedback.

Gary has been an ANZAHPE member for many years – he and his students present regularly at ANZAHPE conferences and he is available to mentor ANZAHPE members.

Congratulations to Dr Yobelli Jimenez on her appointment as ANZAHPE Associate Fellow.

About Yobelli

I am a radiation therapist and I completed my PhD in 2018. My PhD project brought together my interests in high quality patient care, education and technology. My PhD project evaluated the use of a virtual reality tool to educate women with breast cancer about radiation therapy. I am currently working as a Lecturer in the Discipline of Medical Imaging Science at the University of Sydney.

 My research interests are focused on health profession student education, and I am currently working across various projects, exploring the use of technology for student education, ethics, and student wellbeing. I have participated in ANZAHPE conferences and workshops for a long time, finding that these activities align well to my interests and values for growing evidence base of education research. In 2021, I had the opportunity to participate in the ANZAHPE mentoring program, which further enhanced my commitment to quality education research. I decided to apply for Associate Fellowship to continue my association with the ANZAHPE community and collaborate with professionals and researchers who share my passion for research in teaching and learning.

ANZAHPE celebrates its 50th year anniversary in 2022, and to mark this significant milestone is planning to produce a series of papers on themes representing the core values of ANZAHPE. The papers will be published across a number of issues in the ANZAHPE journal, Focus on Health Professional Education (FoHPE), starting in the December 2022 Vol 23.4. The papers should be forward-looking, innovative and focus on the future of Health Professional Education in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and globally. The papers would be authored by selected key contributors to ANZAHPE who would enlist supporting authors. Selection may be through expression of interest or nomination by the ANZAHPE Committee of Management. Inclusivity principles will guide author selection. All authors will be required to submit an Abstract in advance which will be reviewed by a panel. Completed papers will be reviewed by a FoHPE Associate Editor. The series Editor will provide a commentary on the core values and resulting papers.

The Core Values and briefs are listed on the document attached here.

Expressions of Interest are called for the following papers in the Anniversary Collection.

• Health professional education for inclusive health services in the next 50 years (Core Value 2)
• Learning, teaching and assessment in health professional education and scholarship in the next 50 years (Core Value 4)
• Health professional education for a globally interdependent world in the next 50 years (Core Value 5)
• Mentoring, support and workplace learning for health professionals, educators and researchers in the next 50 years (Core Value 6)

The ANZAHPE Committee of Management is commissioning the remaining two papers in the collection.

Papers should be up to 2000 words long. Submission dates will be negotiated with successful authors.

Expressions of interest should be submitted by the Lead Author. They should contain a one-page CV of the Lead Author and the names and affiliation of all Contributing Authors. It is expected that all authors would be ANZAHPE members.

The Expression of Interest should be accompanied by an Abstract of no more than 500 words setting out:

• an overview of the paper,
• its theoretical underpinnings and location within the literature in the field
• the main arguments in the paper
• the major conclusions to be drawn.                                              

SELECTION PROCESS

Abstracts will be reviewed by a Selection Panel with a membership of;

• the Editor of FoHPE
• the two FoHPE Associate Editors assigned to the Anniversary Collection
• the Anniversary Collection series Editor.

The following criteria will be used to select the successful Abstracts.

• The expertise of the Lead Author and standing within ANZAHPE
• The quality and diversity of the writing team. Preference may be given to teams with a combination of senior and junior members.
• How well the ideas presented in the Abstract embody the relevant ANZAHPE Core Value underpinning the paper
• How well the Abstract demonstrates that the paper will be forward looking and at the cutting edge of the topic.
• The likely overall academic quality of the paper as judged from the Abstract

Expressions of interest should be submitted to

 Jill Romeo, Executive Officer ANZAHPE  (anzahpe@flinders.edu.au)

by no later than Friday 8 July, 2022. 

About Joy

Joy is the Director Education Development and Staff Support Unit (EDSSU) at Otago Medical School, New Zealand, and is responsible for the co-ordination of the Education Advisers' Otago Medical School role and sits on the MB ChB Curriculum Committee and other committees in an educational advisory capacity. Joy began her Medical Education career, over 20 years ago, at Dundee Centre for Medical Education.

About Nyoli

I am currently working in clinical medicine as a GP and in medical education both as a PhD candidate and for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. I’ve worked in medical education for the last 12 years, in many different roles including the implementation of programmatic assessment and the development of entrustable professional activities for GP registrars. In 2021 I began working for the RACGP as Clinical Lead responsible for the development of a national GP vocational training syllabus. I am currently undertaking my PhD with Prideaux Health Professions Education, Flinders University focusing on what is fairness of human judgment in assessment and how this can be better utilized within our assessment programs. 

My first association with ANZHAPE was at the combined OTTAWA conference in Perth in 2016, and I have not missed a conference since! I have learnt from and been challenged by the inspiring members of the ANZHAPE community. I am keen to further collaborate with, and hopefully in turn give back to this community. It is a delight to have been accepted as a Fellow of ANZAHPE. 

We are delighted to share the names of our Plenary Speakers for the 2022 ANZAHPE Festival.

The theme this year is Partnerships, and we look forward to hearing how partnerships have shaped their careers.

The 50^th Anniversary celebrations and Festival being on Friday July 8^th with Professor  Suzanne Pitama speaking from Christchurch, New Zealand.  We hope you can enjoy this session at a local in-person networking hub, but we will also be providing an online viewing option. Look out for the final list of hubs that will be announced soon.

We will open the online Festival with Dr Dujeepa D. Samarasekera on Monday, July 11th. On Wednesday, July 13^th,  we will be joined by a Panel of speakers led by MC,  Dr Rhea Liang.  The panel includes Professors Elizabeth Molloy and Darrell Evans and Student Award recipients Dr Ken Cho and medical student Lizzie Stevenson.The Festival will conclude with Professor Jen Cleland on Tuesday . 

Click here to read the full bios of our invited speakers. 

Diolch

Jo Bishop
ANZAHPE President
2022 ANZAHPE Festival Committee Lead

Have you ever wondered how events like ANZAHPE Online and our annual conferences/festival happen?

Are you curious about how decisions are made on behalf of our organisation and are keen to be involved?

We would love to hear from members who would like learn more about nominating for a position on the ANZAHPE Committee of Management (CoM) in 2022.

Nominations for the ANZAHPE CoM will be received in advance of the AGM to be held on Friday 24^th June 1:00pm (AEST).

Hear a message from Megan Anakin (ANZAHPE Honorary Secretary):  Nominations for CoM 2022.mp4

2022 CoM nomination form

CoM information form

Information on requirement of Director identification number for CoM nominees here.

Please feel free to contact to Jo Bishop (President), Megan Anakin (Secretary) or any of the CoM members (click here to view) to discuss the expectations such as time commitment for meetings, workload, and the rewards from serving your Association as member of the committee.

My whole of academic career spans over 25 years in positions at La Trobe, Monash and Deakin universities as well as education lead roles at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. My academic career was built on and overlaps with clinical physiotherapy experience, with specialist Cardiorespiratory training at The Brompton Hospital, London and senior clinical roles in Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy both in adult and paediatric populations in the United Kingdom and Australia. Completing my PhD in 2006, I have pivoted to predominantly teaching and leadership focused roles and am currently the course coordinator of the Doctor of Physiotherapy program at the University of Melbourne. My scholarly interests are in the use of technology enhanced/supported learning, ePortfolios to support flexible and self-regulated learning, transition to practice and professional resilience and interprofessional education and practice.

I am delighted to have been accepted as an Associate Fellow of ANZAHPE which has long history of promoting and supporting health professional educators. As an AFANZAHPE I aim to connect, collaborate with and learn from and with other members, building on and sharing my expertise at national and international level. I am also committed to mentoring and championing the health professional educators of the future. Finally, I will contribute to and promote the growth of ANZAHPHE.

I am currently working in a dual role as a Lecturer in Medical Education as a member of the School Assessment Leadership Team and a Lecturer of Optometry at the School of Medicine, Deakin University. As a healthcare professional I have thirteen years’ experience working across two disciplines, radiation therapy and optometry, often as a clinical supervisor and educator.

My scholarly interests include clinical assessment, curriculum development and the role simulation and technology play in developing the professional identify and skills of a health care practitioner. I am passionate about innovation and recently was awarded the WJB Banks Vice Chancellors award with my colleagues for our work on developing virtual international clinical placements at Deakin University.

I decided to apply for an Associate Fellowship with the Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE) to continue to be part of conversations and opportunities that inspire and engage ventures beyond the norms of education. I look forward to being part of this community of practice.

I’ve worked as a health professionals’ educator for ten years. Starting in my honours year I realised that teaching was something I was passionate about. It was also something I was raised to be, coming from a family of educators. In my current role as a lecturer I coordinate and teach public health and health research methods to Medical, Biomedical, Public Health and Health Science undergraduate students at Monash University. I’ve received awards for teaching excellence, particularly in relation to my contributions to student wellbeing. In more recent years I have conducted health professionals research which focuses on the employability of our graduates. This has included the development of a dataset mapping students careers through LinkedIn and numerous interviews of alumni and students. Some of which I have shared at previous ANZAPHE festivals. I am currently undertaking my Master of Education at the University of Melbourne.  

I joined ANZAPHE as an Associate Fellow to connect with liked minded professionals, sharing collective wisdom and resources. As someone who is passionate about others career’s I see this as an opportunity to develop my own.  I look forward to expanding my connections with the ANZAPHE community.