MD Design Theme Leads and Working Groups

Professor Diann (Di) Eley is the Director of MD Student Research in the Medicine Program and is the MD Post Graduate Coordinator in the Faculty of Medicine.  Di also chairs the Low and Negligible Risk (LNR) Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC), and is deputy chair of the UQ HREC-A. Di became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2018. The primary focus of Di's research is, research training and rural health workforce. Her specific area of research interest deals with personality and its association with student well-being and career decision making. Di is responsible for the development and implementation of the Clinician-Scientist Track in the UQ Medicine Program which encourages student interest and experience in research, and facilitates medical students undertaking a higher degree by research (MD-PhD, MD-MPhil) alongside their medical degree. Di has been recognised for her leadership in several Faculty initiatives in medical education, and received the 2015 University of Queensland Award for Excellence in Leadership.

Researcher Profile: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1316

Dr Charley Greentree an Emergency physician at St Vincent’s hospital in Toowoomba and is one of the founding members of WRAPEM (Wellness Resilience and Performance in Emergency Medicine). Charley has a passion for clinical education at all levels of training, including developing curriculum and assessment. She has expertise in developing curriculum for and delivering simulation education and has performed the roles of Director of Clinical Training), Director Emergency Medicine Training, and Clinical Subdean (Uniting Care Health Clinical School). Clinically she has interests in risk, error wisdom and bias, vulnerable populations and health literacy. She is part of the ACEM CPD committee, Mentoring Reference Group and Education Resources Review Panel, and a member of NOWEM (Network of Women in Emergency Medicine).

Associate Professor Warrick Inder is an Endocrinologist who graduated from the University of Otago, NZ in 1988. He obtained his MD examining the effects of opioid peptides on ACTH secretion, before spending 2 years at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University on a post-doctoral fellowship researching pituitary adenomas. He has worked as consultant Endocrinologist at Christchurch Hospital, NZ and St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and is currently an eminent staff specialist at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Associate Professor with the University of Queensland and member of the Translational Research Institute. He was the President of the Endocrine Society of Australia 2016-18 and chair of the Advanced Training Committee in Endocrinology for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians 2014-18. He is an editor of the international journal Clinical Endocrinology. His major clinical and research interests are pituitary and adrenal disease.

Researcher Profile: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/4485

Associate Professor Calvin Smith is Academic Lead for Professional Development in the Office of Medical Education. His research focuses primarily on theorising the impact of aspects of work-integrated learning curriculum on student learning and the development of employability with a focus on integrative learning, employability skills, lifelong learning and professional identity formation. The recipient of multiple internal and external research and development grants exceeding $1 million, Calvin's work has emphasized the importance of clarity in conceptualisation and operationalization of constructs, and the use of appropriate research designs to answer useful questions about curricula.

Researcher Profile: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/24172

Dr Michaela Kelly is a medical graduate of the University of Queensland and a general practitioner with a specific interest in aged care. She is interested in the health and well-being needs of older people, multi-morbidity, rehabilitation within aged care, palliative care and the ethical issues surrounding the medical care of elderly people. Michaela has been teaching medical students at UQ since 2010 and currently is a year two case-based learning tutor and the academic coordinator for the Medicine in Society course. Michaela completed a Master of Clinical Education in 2017 and contributes to the work of the RACGP in the development of guidelines for general practice care of older patients and standards for Aged Care. 

Researcher Profile: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/11961

Associate Professor Linda Selvey is a public health physician and infectious diseases epidemiologist. She worked in senior roles in Queensland Health (as Director, Communicable Diseases Branch and then Executive Director, Population Health Queensland) before moving to the role of CEO Greenpeace Australia Pacific. She is now into her tenth year as an academic in public health. While at UQ, she has taught Health, Society and Research courses and she has a passion for teaching medical students about public health and climate change.  Linda is also the immediate past-President of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine within the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Researcher Profile: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/16689

Associate Prof Helen Wozniak is the Academic Lead Assessment in the Office of Medical Education. She has over 30 years’ experience as a clinician (orthoptist) and an educator in health and higher education settings. Her teaching excellence and use of innovative e-learning strategies have been recognized with the awarding of five university, national and international teaching awards. Helen’s award-winning doctoral work investigated the transition of students to online distance learning in the health professions and her current research interests include faculty development, learning design and assessment in the health professions.

Researcher Profile: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/17881

Our 8 working groups have now drafted staged learning outcomes for each year of the new program (by theme).  This has been a significant achievement and will serve as a great platform for the detailed course design work that is now commencing.

See below for the full list of Theme Working Group Members. 

More than 70 academic, professional and ATH staff together with students, UQ Alumni and other key MD Program stakeholders have been working together during 2021 to develop appropriately staged learning outcomes and learning activities for their key theme over the four years of the UQMD Program. 

In addition, they have worked collaboratively with the other Themes to promote meaningful integration, a cohesive four year curriculum and a whole of program approach to assessment. 

Each working group member is and will continue to be an ambassador and champion for the new curriculum and to engage other colleagues, peers and community members to seek broader input and contributions to the design process.

We are so grateful for the time that theme group leaders and members have contributed to the MD DESIGN efforts during 2021.

Professor Foster is Director of the Office of Medical Education and Mayne Professor of Medical Education leading a team of academics expert in medical education and medical education research. As Chair of the MD Design Project Working group she leads the detailed design of the new MD Program due to welcome its first students in 2023. Kirsty has a national and international reputation in medical education leadership and in global health (especially in the area of maternal and child health and primary care). After graduating in Medicine from Edinburgh University she undertook specialist training in General Practice and gained membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners UK by examination. She has a strong clinical background with twenty years’ experience in the Scottish National Health Service as a principal in general practice and partner in a large academic group practice in one of Edinburgh’s most socially deprived areas. Since coming to Australia in 1998 she has focussed on health professional education and research firstly as a postgraduate medical educator with Central Sydney Area Health Service and then as an academic at the University of Sydney. Kirsty has led many educational initiatives in diverse settings such as the Balkans, Timor Leste, China, Ghana, Indonesia, India, Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam. She is recognised as an expert on education in the tertiary and continuing professional education sectors with particular strength and experience in integrated curriculum design and development, interactive teaching methods and faculty development. She worked in global health for more than a decade and held academic leadership roles at the University of Sydney including as Sub Dean Education at Northern Clinical School from 2008 - 2019, Associate Dean International and Head of the Office for Global Health for 5 years 2014-2018. She was appointed to the position of Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Sydney in August 2018. Kirsty was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2019 for Services to medical education and community health. She first joined UQ in March 2019 as Director of the Office of Medical Education and MD Program Convener. Kirsty is an Honorary Professor at Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam and at the University of Sydney.