Research in the centre

Contact: Professor Brian Jolly
Tel: + 61 3 9501 5537

The Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education fosters excellence and innovation in educational research and curriculum development and evaluation. Our interests include: inter-professional education; simulation technologies; and all forms of clinical and work-based health professional education but particularly feedback, supervision, assessment, patient safety education and International Medical Graduate education. 

We work with all health professions and craft groups, including: medicine; nursing; physiotherapy; public health; psychology; osteopathy; pharmacy; biomedical sciences; nutrition and dietetics; medical imaging and paramedic studies.

Key Words: Health professional education research methods, medical education, nursing education, physiotherapy education, inter professional education, simulation, curriculum design, assessment, clinical teaching methods, feedback, clinical supervision, patient safety education, International Medical Graduate education, teaching innovation, work-based learning, educational theory.

Expertise: Qualitative and quantitative educational research and evaluation methodologies; statistical analysis; grounded theory; phenomenology; assessment design; teaching innovation development; and curriculum review and design.