Research and Scholarship Activities - March / April 2025
Come along and discover the research and scholarship activities on offer in the Department of Medical Education (DME) in March and April 2025. Where session recordings are available you can access them on our DME Research and Scholarship Training Hub.
Thursday 6 March (1-2pm)
Session Type: Research and Scholarship Roundtable - Focus on Research
Title: Integrating digital technologies into teaching embodied knowledge in the context of physical examination
Presenter: Dr Jess Lees, Department of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne
Overview: There is a growing presence of digital technologies in clinical learning environments. However, there is little research into how technologies shape embodied teaching and learning for health professional students. This presentation will share findings from a study that used a thinking with theory approach to explore current teaching practices of physical examination across four health disciplines and to understand how digital technologies are used to facilitate the development of bodily knowledge.
Thursday 13 March (1-2pm)
Session Type: Research and Scholarship Roundtable - Focus on Scholarship
Presenter: Dr Morgan Rayner, The University of Melbourne
Overview: This presentation explores attendance monitoring methods in healthcare degrees, focusing on the tension between adult learning and course requirements. It discusses various monitoring techniques, including RFID, QR codes, and smartphone systems, along with ethical concerns such as trust and data privacy. Morgan will also explore how online participation data can help identify and support at-risk medical students early and discuss the potential of this approach in medical education.
Thursday 20 March (1-2pm)
ANZAHPE ONLINE Professional Development Program:
Title: Mapping inter-professional capabilities in the curriculum
Presenters: Professor Margo Brewer, Professor Tina Brock and Professor Kim Allison
Register at this link
Thursday 27 March (1-2pm)
Session Type: Research and Scholarship Roundtable - Focus on Research Training
Title: Tools for navigating research authorship and acknowledging contributions
Presenter: Prof Robyn Woodward-Kron, The University of Melbourne
Overview: This research training session is about research integrity. It addresses the sometimes sticky business of navigating who should be an author, who should be an acknowledgment, and in what order authors should appear. Drawing on university guidelines and templates for navigating authorship and contributions, the session provides practical resources and strategies for research students, research project and academic supervisors.
Thursday 3 April (1-2pm)
Session Type: Research and Scholarship Roundtable - Focus on Research
Title: “We need a seismic shift”: Visualising the assemblage of disability inclusion through U.S. disabled medical students’ perspectives
Presenter: Dr Neera Jain, Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, University of Auckland
Overview: This session will share a reflexive thematic analysis of disabled medical student responses to US survey. The analysis identifies key dimensions of medical school systems that affected student experiences, and the actions students took in response, positioning them as an assemblage. Highlighting the political-relational production of disability, Dr. Jain will discuss the need for systemic shifts within medical education that follow.
Thursday 10 April (1-2pm)
Session Type: Research and Scholarship Roundtable - Focus on Scholarship
Theme: Technology enhanced learning and assessment
Title: Using Artificial Intelligence to help develop high clinical complexity medical assessment content
Presenter: Dr Hannah Wu, University of Adelaide
Thursday 17 April (1-2pm)
ANZAHPE ONLINE Professional Development Program:
Title: How do I… reach beyond one profession: Building partnerships for interprofessional supervision
Presenter: Dr Linda Taoube
Register at this link
Thursday 24 April – No Roundtable
To download the Research & Scholarship Activities flyer for March/April 2025, click here