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. 

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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. 

Dr Jessie Zhou is a junior doctor at Melbourne Health, with a background in pharmacy. She is passionate about medical education and looks forward to mentoring and growing ANZAHPE's junior members. Currently, she is involved with the teaching of medical students and current research projects focus on mentorship and the use of technology to improve teaching and learning. Outside of medicine, she enjoys graphic design and running.

Jessie is happy to be contacted about all things medical education and looks forward to collaborating with the ANZAHPE community!
Email: jessiezhoumd@gmail.com

Key areas of interest include: Clinical Education, Technology in Healthcare, Advocacy, Multimedia/Design and Research.

Dear all,

This bulletin will include updates from various portfolios that are led by members of your Committee of Management (CoM).

A 50^th anniversary committee has been formed to commemorate this significant milestone in July 2022 with the first of the celebrations to be held as part of our Festival networking hubs on July 8^th.  The committee members include; Julie Ash, Chinthaka Balasooriya, Jo Bishop, Ben Canny,  Monica Moran,  Phillippa Poole, David Prideaux, Gary Rogers, Dale Sheehan,  Andy Wearn, Tim Wilkinson and  Jill Romeo. Please feel free to reach out to anyone of us with any personal stories you would like to share.

Last week we launched the 2022 Festival website with theme of  'Partnerships’. We are excited that so many of you have appreciated the early details and opportunity to prepare abstracts for the January 31 deadline.

The Festival committee would like to invite additional abstracts reviewers from our membership, if you are interested, please contact us. 

Our first ANZAHPE ONLINE event for 2022 will focus on student support, but whilst supporting students how do we support ourselves as health professional educators; “Bouncing Forward; Mental Wealth for Staff and Student”.

As we farewell 2021, this is a great opportunity to reflect on our personal and professional achievements, and how we can best prepare for 2022. For some this will be a festive season but for all of us this is a break away from work to spend quality time with those we care about, including ourselves.

Jo Bishop
ANZAHPE President

Do you know a recent graduate and involved in an educational project at your workplace?

Have you supervised a student enrolled in a health professional programme to complete an educational study?

Are you are working on a postgraduate degree studying health professions education? 

We invite all ANZAHPE members to encourage a student or colleague to apply for an ANZAHPE prize

ANZAHPE offer 4 prizes (each AU$500) to students, early-career educators, and early-career researchers:

• The ANZAHPE Pre-Registration Student Prize (Sponsored by the Australian Medicines Handbook)
• The ANZAHPE Post-Registration Student Prize (Sponsored by the Australian Medicines Handbook)
• The ANZAHPE Clinical Education Prize (Sponsored by Richard Hays) 
• The ANZAHPE Early Career Health Professions Education Research Prize 

For information on application guidelines, materials, and eligibility criteria

 click here

The closing date for applications is 31 January, 2022.

Outcomes will be announced in April, 2022

Prizes are awarded at the Festival.

Greetings! I am Anna Vnuk, the membership secretary for ANZAHPE, also the Diversity Equity and Inclusion lead on Committee of Management.  I work for James Cook University on the beautiful lands the Gunggandji, Yidinji, Tjabukai and Yirrganydji people.  

Since taking on the role of membership secretary, I have been working with the Committee of Management to continue to assist our members in their roles as health professional educators.  

We surveyed the membership at the end of 2020 and know that members want professional development, networking opportunities and assistance in developing in their roles.  

The conference/festival is a wonderful professional development opportunity - for people to present their work and to learn from others.  It is also a wonderful opportunity to network – interact, exchange ideas, connect, develop a sense of collegiality and shared purpose, even to develop opportunities to work on joint projects together – and this networking is sometimes by chance and sometimes planned.  However, due to covid, some of networking opportunities have been missing because the Festival/Conference has been on line.   

While we are pleased with the experience of the online Festival in 2021, we have also worked to put professional development on line throughout the whole year.  

However, to respond to the need for networking opportunities, we are now organizing to create a series of networking events in 2022 which will aim recreate the serendipitous act of walking to morning tea with someone you just sat next to at a presentation, with whom you have started a great conversation…..  

We have three potential networking dates planned for 2022: likely March, May and November but we need some more specific input from Members to ensure that they will hit the mark.  

We are aware that members want the opportunity for communication and impromptu conversations but these usually occur best after some shared experience, so one of our ideas has been for a sort of journal club where we choose an article that is interesting to health professional educators (and we are very open to suggestions for this and are thinking of using FOHPE articles) and pre-circulate it so that those who have a bit of an opportunity can read it, but obviously, that would not be compulsory as this is networking not homework.  We would start with a 5 minute chat by our session lead, who would be one of the ANZAHPE fellows.   Then we would break into small groups for discussion and chat for 20-30 minutes and then have a large group session with people sharing their insights and then a chance for more chatting.   

Another need from the membership survey is hearing about career pathways – many health professional educators have come directly from the clinical arena and find the education and academic pathways unclear and confusing and so we are thinking of running a sessions where members can talk with others who have transitioned into education or academia (or are successfully straddling between education and clinical work) to find some tips and strategies.  

Another need from the membership survey is mentoring and finding out about the Fellowship scheme and this is another one of our potential networking events for 2022.  

So please contact me with any ideas for networking events for 2022 and beyond.  

Other possible plans are to encourage members to contribute their career stories which we will publish on line so that we can develop an understand of the diverse backgrounds and journeys of our members.  

We are also reviewing the membership fee structure and our recruitment processes to ensure that there is equity, diversity and inclusion within our membership.  As ANZAHPE’s aim is to benefit the community by seeking to ensure that medical and health professionals receive training of the highest possible standard, we must also ensure that we are including all members of the community, and all members of the medical and health professions.  

Looking forward to hearing from members!

Anna 

Email Anna here