Interprofessional education (IPE) is a key theme in the upcoming ANZAHPE Festival so keep an eye out for the program, available soon on the Festival website

AIPPEN (Australasian Interprofessional Practice & Education Network) meets three times a year to focus on shared interprofessional priorities and issues. Despite the lack of face to face professional development opportunities, multiple international webinars on interprofessional topics are advertised on the AIPPEN Slack site. The steering committee have also commenced development of an AIPPEN guide and infographic for educators on 'How to facilitate a pre-registration interprofessional student group.' The purpose of this is to have a good concise reference for staff who want to come and help to facilitate IPL or for those staff who find this work within their role and don’t really understand the principles. 

What to know more? Contact: aippen@anzahpe.org

Fiona Kent, AIPPEN Steering Committee Chair

ANZAHPE and AIPPEN have collaborated in the development of a web-based digital library to facilitate the sharing of IPE resources for the Australian and New Zealand contexts.  Hosted by Nexus, this repository provides peer reviewed resources including presentations, guidelines, reports, links to journal/conference papers and learning modules.

Click here to view the 25 resources currently in the repository. 

If you would like to submit a resource to the ANZAHPE Resource Repository please complete the submission form and email to executive@anzahpe.org

ANZAHPE IPE IPE Resource Repository Submission Form 2021.docx

In addition to the repository, the ANZAHPE IPE Sub-committee continues to work on a professional development event and a grant scheme, both planned fo the second half of the year.  We hope to make an announcement re both of these by the end of June.

Margo Brewer
Chair, ANZAHPE IPE Sub-committee

We are delighted to announce confirmed dates of the 2021 ANZAHPE Festival. 

This year, the program will be delivered as a series of 4 events as follows:

Festival Dates:  

• Tuesday 6 July 
• Thursday 8 July 
• Monday 12 July 
• Wednesday 14 July

Conference Registration:

see Registration Fees here

Festival Program:
Program will be delivered over a series of 4 events and include:  

• 3 Keynote Speakers 
• Oral Presentations 
• Workshops 
• Networking Opportunities

In addition - all sessions will be available on-demand after the event!

Conference website

The ANZAHPE Online Organising Group would like an HDR student representative (PhD or Masters by Research in Health Professions Education or related discipline) to contribute to informing the ANZAHPE Online PD program.

The ANZAHPE Online Organising Group meets monthly to discuss PD offerings and creative ways of implementation to maximise discussion, networking and ANZAHPE member benefit. 

This position provides an HDR student an opportunity within ANZAHPE that can contribute to evidence of leadership at a national/international level for your CV, position applications and for future application to the ANZAHPE Fellowship Scheme. 

If you are interested please contact Julie Ash as below to discuss. 

The position will be filled on a first come basis, in terms of willingness to commit after discussion. 

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Julie Ash (FANZAHPE, ANZAHPE Fellowship Scheme Lead)

(For Joy Rudland ANZAHPE ONLINE Program Lead)
Email julie.ash@adelaide.edu.au

One of the issues the PD group has been grappling with is what constitutes PD.   Since COVID the emphasis has been on what we can deliver on-line and invariably in respect to professional development of educators in health professions.

Moving forward we are considering the two strands to the PD Portfolio, embracing both aspects of scholarship; being an educator and a researcher.  In respect to PD in research, Koshila Kumar and Christy Nobel ran an on-line session exploring applying for research grants.  Moving forward and reflecting on the ANZAHPE members survey, we are thinking of opportunities for researchers to network in order to share research experience.  With an onus on research, we are looking for expressions of interest from a Higher Degree Researcher to join the PD Portfolio team – please see this edition of the Bulletin.

We were grateful to Keryn Bolte for running the first PeArLS on-line this month allowing us the opportunity to consider what works well and well can be improved moving forward.   We have two more PeArLS before the ANZAHPE Festival.    

View ANZAHPE ONLINE Calendar

Joy Rudland
Lead, ANZAHPE PD Program

In late 2020 - early 2021, ANZAHPE formally canvassed the views of members and contacts via an online survey. Feedback was gathered regarding the: overall value of ANZAHPE membership, value of key member services; contemporary challenges faced by members, and how the association could better support members. The survey was completed by 37.4% of members, and the report on findings is now available.  Click here to view. We have identified a series of recommendations related to maximising the appeal and value of membership and member services such as the ANZAHPE Online professional development program, the ANZAHPE journal (FoHPE), and the Fellowship scheme. 

The ANZAHPE Committee of Management extends its sincere thanks to everyone who participated in the survey and provided feedback, and congratulates the two winners of the survey prize draw Monica Carrarini and Sarmishtha Ghosh.  Both will have complimentary access to the first ANZAHPE ONLINE Master class workshop later in 2021.

If you have any questions or comments about this report, please let us know by emailing executive@anzahpe.org

Koshila Kumar (ANZAHPE Membership Secretary) 

Update from ANZAHPE President, Ben Canny

It is a great pleasure to pen this message to ANZAHPE in my interim role.  I would like to start by thanking the ANZAHPE membership, and especially the Committee of Management, for the support I have been given over the last several months.  To me, this speaks to the essential fabric of ANZAHPE as a membership-led, collaborative association, committed to the pursuit of excellence.

The Committee of Management has been working hard about how we can better support the membership in their professional and personal development.  Thanks to all members who took the time to contribute to Membership Survey, which has highlighted the importance of networking and career development in research to the ongoing professional success of our members.  ANZAHPE is determined to develop these aspects of its activities, with the ongoing initiative of ANZAHPE ONLINE forming a critical part of this strategy.  The Committee of Management is open to suggestions from the membership about how we can serve you better.

Preparations for the ANZAHPE Festival are continuing apace.  As you are most probably aware, the theme is “Moving Forward in Ambiguity”, and I thank the membership for tolerating the open-ended nature of some of the organisational aspects.  A fully online Conference/Festival is new to ANZAHPE, as it is for our Professional Conference Organiser (PCO – EventStudio (formerly Plevin and Associates)).  As the program has (is) taken(ing) shape, the technical solutions are being finalised and confirmed.  We aim to have the Festival be as “low tech” as possible, recognising that technical complexity can be a significant inhibitor to engagement and interaction.  We had over 290 abstracts submitted, and all but a small number have been accepted and included in the program (formal notification should slightly precede this Bulletin).  We also have 3 Keynote presentations organised, and a handful of workshops, including engagement from AMEE and IAMSE.  We hope to learn much from an online conference, which will inform future conference organisation.  We look forward to your feedback.

Finally, I would like to encourage members to consider their engagement with ANZAHPE.  Your membership keeps us alive, both academically and financially, and ANZAHPE offers great opportunities for further professional development.  This could be in the form of ANZAHPE Fellowship, being involved with the Mentoring scheme the Fellowship committee is developing, or nominating for election to the Committee of Management.  The Association needs its members involved, and I look forward to its ongoing vitality.

Ben Canny
ANZAHPE President

The ANZAHPE ONLINE Professional Development program kicked off for 2021 with the following events:

Learning in (and for) a digital world
Presented by Prof Margaret Bearman

As 2020 has revealed, almost all aspects of modern living are mediated by the digital in one form or another. However, we tend to think very instrumentally about technology: as a tool to help us teach or to help us care for patients. This keynote takes a broader view and explores what it means for health professional students to learn in a digital world.

Writing a competitive research grant application in Health Professions Education
Presented by:  Koshila Kumar and Christy Noble

Writing a competitive research grant is an essential skill for researchers and scholars in Health Professions Education to master. This introductory session outlined some fundamental principles of successful research grant development,  and referred to the ANZAHPE research grants scheme as a case study.

Members can access recordings of these sessions here.
Please contact the ANZAHPE office to arrange non-member access to this session.

Check out the ANZAHPE ONLINE event calendar to view future events in 2021.

We are excited to announce that from 1 February, 2021 FoHPE is an Open Access (OA) journal.  

Open Access will result in significant benefits for ANZAHPE and its members by increasing the profile of FoHPE and providing the opportunity to be more broadly recognised as an international publication for Health Professions Education and a flagship activity of ANZAHPE.  

For ANZAHPE members, the fee structure for publishing in FoHPE has not changed in 2021. This is a true benefit to ANZAHPE members as it allows you to maximise the visibility of your research. 

From 1^st February 2021:

·       For members, it is still free to publish in FoHPE.  Authors must be an ANZAHPE member from the time of article submission to acceptance in order to receive fee-free publication. 

·       For non-members, a fee of AU$600  is charged for articles accepted for publication.

Visit the FoHPE Website here.

FoHPE accepts a range of manuscript types, including original research, reviews, innovative teaching and learning projects, short reports, discussion papers and letters to the editor. Details on all submission categories and guidelines are available here.

It has certainly been quite a year at the ANZAHPE office!

ANZAHPE’s usual routine and rhythm has been impacted in 2020 and it has been a time of challenge and change, but also one of triumph and achievement.

ANZAHPE exists for its members, and it has been great to be part of the work around new ways for ANZAHPE to connect with members and the wider community.

I believe ANZAHPE will truly benefit from the experiences of this year and feel there is much to look forward to in 2021.  

Wishing you and yours peace, rest and happy times to all over the holiday season.

Jill Romeo
Executive Officer, ANZAHPE

What a year!  As the lead for the Professional Development (PD) Portfolio I reflect on the expertise and generosity of ANZAHPE members and the wider Health Professional Community.   I have been honored to belong to a dedicated and inspirational group supporting the development of the ANZAHPE ONLINE PD program.  After the initial impact of COVID, this group were identified and quickly levered off the wonderful work by the 2020 Melbourne Conference organizing committee to plan and deliver a variety of PD opportunities during the year. 

There have been many highs, some wonderful sessions,  as well as areas to learn from as we tried new things.  I applaud the community’s patience and kindness.  We started the program with a launch session in early July and ended the series of sessions in December.  We have recorded most of the sessions and  I recommend all to visit or revisit the Ways of Seeing exhibition.

Looking forward we have already secured some exciting opportunities in 2021.   Click here for more details.

The 2021 program starts with looking at  Learning in (and for) a digital world by the wonderful Margaret Bearman.  As we progress forward we will look to maximise the leaps in educational innovation.  Also during the first part of the year we will pilot a string of PEaRLS delivering a signature ANZAHPE learning approach online.  We are all enthusiastic to break new ground with these PD sessions.  

ANZAHPE is an organisation that thrives on its community.  We are grateful for the ANZAHPE Fellows and Associates who have helped facilitate some of our sessions.  In 2021 we hope to involve more people in design as well as delivery of the PD program.  

The following is a snap shot of some of the participants in the final session of the year.

View highlights of the End of year special here.

We hope to continue to learn with you in 2021. 
Joy Rudland, Lead ANZAHPE PD portfolio