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The Northland Regional-Rural program (Pūkawakawa): broadening medical undergraduate learning in New Zealand
qualifications: FRACP
contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts, designed the project
position: Head, medical education division
New Zealand
I am a general physician at Auckland City Hospital and Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Auckland. My research interests include medical education for future health needs, women in medicine, the generalist medical workforce, and comprehensive management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
qualifications: FRACP
contribution: original concept, designed the project, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts, literature review
position: Associate dean (medical program)
New Zealand
qualifications: MPhil
contribution: original concept, designed the project, literature review
position: Educational project manager
New Zealand
Educational Project Manager for the University of Auckland Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, and especially for the medical programme. My research interests are regional and rural medicine, indigenous health, and community engagement models.
contribution: input data, collected data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, literature review
position: Research fellow
qualifications: MBA
contribution: devised survey tool, contributed to drafts, contributed to drafts
position: Senior lecturer, Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education
New Zealand
I currently work in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland in health professions' education and am also an Honorary Professor in Medical Education at Swansea University and a Visiting Professor in Healthcare Education and Leadership, University of Bedfordshire, UK. I have a long involvement in medical education, was Director of Undergraduate Medicine at Imperial College London from 1998 - 2004 and have worked around the world (incuding Central Asia, former Soviet Union, EU accession countries, Portugal and Samoa) on health reform, medical education and faculty and leadership development initiatives. My research interests and publications are in faculty development; e-learning; health and social care workforce development (especially relating to service shifts and changing workforce roles and skills mixes); law, ethics and professionalism teaching and learning; leadership development and curriculum change. I co-edit the 'Clinical teaching made easy' series (with Tim Swanwick) for the British Journal of Hospital Medicine.
qualifications: MEdAdmin
contribution: devised survey tool, collected data, input data
position: Pūkawakawa evaluation officer
qualifications: PhD
contribution: input data, statistical analysis
position: Senior lecturer, Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education
qualifications: FAFPHM
contribution: original concept, designed the project
position: Tumuaki
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