Staff Profiles - Debra Kiegaldie

RN, IntCareCert., InfDisCert, BEdSt (Monash), MEd (Monash), PhD Candidate (Monash), MRCNA Senior Lecturer Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education Building Two, Level One, 270 Ferntree Gully Road, Notting Hill, Vic, 3168 Tel: +61 3 9501 5536 Fax: +61 3 9501 5546 Email: debra.kiegaldie@med.monash.edu.au

Background:

With a background in intensive care nursing, Debra taught and co-ordinated postgraduate acute case courses for Monash University for over 9 years. She took up her current position in the Centre for Medical & Health Sciences Education in 2003 to pursue her interests in health professional education. Debra has a previously been involved in the development, implementation and evaluation of educational technologies. She has produced a number of interactive computer simulations such as the ‘The Virtual Patient’, “The Virtual Ward’ and ‘Virtual Haemodynamics’. In her time at the Centre, Debra has been actively involved in curriculum development for a range of health professional groups particularly in the area of clinical skills, simulated patients and interprofessional learning. She has recently developed a new staff development program for the Centre. Her teaching and research interests include interprofessional learning, simulation, simulated patients, clinical teaching and learning and assessment. She is currently pursuing a PhD which combines many of these interests.

Research Interests

• Simulation and simulated patients
• Interprofessional learning
• Clinical skills teaching
• Assessment of clinical practice

Recent Publications

Kiegaldie, D. & White, G. (2006). The Virtual Patient: Development, implementation and evaluation of an innovative computer simulation for postgraduate nursing students Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. Vol 15 (1) pp (31 – 47).

Lawson, M. Kiegaldie, D. Jolly, B. (2006) Developing an ePortfolio for Health Professional Educators -- a Case Study. Book Chapter in Handbook of Research on ePortfolios (Theme 3). Eds Jafari, A & Kaufman, C. Idea Group Inc.

Kiegaldie, D. & White, G. (2004). The Virtual Patient: Development, implementation and evaluation of an innovative computer simulation for postgraduate nursing students. Full paper presentation at ED-MEDIA World Congress on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Switzerland, June. In Cantoni, L & McLoughlin, C. (Eds). Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA 2004 World Conference .ISBN: 1-880094-53-3. (Paper selected as high quality and invited for submission into an AACE journal).

Jeavons, T, Kiegaldie D., Arwas, R. & Sturrock, W. (2004). The Virtual Ward: Making science a reality for nursing students. Full paper presentation at ED-MEDIA World Congress on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Switzerland, June. In Cantoni, L & McLoughlin, C. (Eds). Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA 2004 World Conference. ISBN: 1-880094-53-3.

Kiegaldie, D. & Glanville, D. (2004). Virtual Haemodynamics: Interpretation and manipulation of haemodynamic variables in the critically ill patient – work in progress. Brief paper presentation at ED-MEDIA World Congress on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Switzerland, June. In Cantoni, L & McLoughlin, C. (Eds). Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA 2004 World Conference .ISBN: 1-880094-53-3.

Lawson, M. & Kiegaldie, D. (2004). Using an e-portfolio in a postgraduate course in health professional education. Brief paper presentation at ED-MEDIA World Congress on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Switzerland, June. In Cantoni, L & McLoughlin, C. (Eds). Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA 2004 World Conference .ISBN: 1-880094-53-3.

Kiegaldie, D., Lawson, M. & Jeavons, T. (2004). The Virtual Ward: making the transition to problem-based learning. Paper presentation at 11th International Conference on Medical Education, Barcelona, Spain. In Educación Médica. Revista International Journal conference proceedings. 

Recent projects

2007: Learning about interprofessional clinical practice in a simulated ward environment. Funding body: Monash University, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Learning and Teaching Performance Fund. Investigators: Kiegaldie, D., Darzins, P., Workman, B., French, J., Cross, W., White, G., Jolly, B., Flanagan, B.

2007: Nurses teaching medical students: pilot study of a new clinical teaching model for 3rd year undergraduate medical students. Funding body: Monash University, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Learning and Teaching Performance Fund. Investigators: Kiegaldie, D., Block, A., Pedler, D., Hill, R., McGrath, B., French, J., Connelly, M., Cross, W., Jolly, B., White, G. & Canny, B.

2007: Developing Clinical Educators' Teaching Competencies: Funding body: Monash University, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Learning and Teaching Performance Fund. Investigators: French, J., White, G., Hill, R., McCall, L., & Kiegaldie, D.

2007: Challenges faced by International Medical Graduates within the VMA training programme Funding body: Victorian Metropolitan Alliance Investigators: Kiegaldie, D. Spike, N., Jolly, B., Bird, B. Gilbert, K.

2006: Educational needs analysis on organ donation education and training. Funding body: Australasian Donor Awareness Program for Transplantation.  Investigators: Kiegaldie, D. & White, G.