Teaching Merit Certificates Hobart and Launceston.
Professor Ray Playford hosted lunches in both Hobart and Launceston to congratulate the winners of Teaching Merit Certificate awards in the Faculty of Health Science for 2011.
PASS Program Evaluation Report for 2010 is now available.
Please provide any comments to your representative on the Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee.
The University of Tasmania has a number of teaching awards that recognise learning and teaching excellence. Through a `pathways'approach to recognition, the UTAS Teaching Award Program offers opportunities for academic and professional staff to be acknowledged for their teaching contributions, and to be rewarded for their ongoing commitment to professional learning and practice in the learning and teaching domain. Click here for more information.
Report on the Faculty Learning and Teaching Forum from the 9th of September 2011, The Old Woolstore Hotel, Hobart.
Recipients of the 2011 Celebration of Excellence Awards are:
Faculty of Health Science staff have again been recognised for their teaching excellence, with the following staff receiving the Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in the 2011 Vice-Chancellor's Awards.
Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
Dr Roslyn Malley - Medicine
For development of a pathology curriculum centred on supporting and encouraging engagement to prepare medical students for their later clinical years and their future profession.
Mr Lindsay Smith - Nursing & Midwifery
For development of innovative online learning materials and teaching strategies in health science units that meet student learning needs, motivate participation and enhance capability outcomes.
Dr Emma Warnecke - Medicine
For enthusiastic creation of a teaching and learning environment that inspires and engages medical students and encourages active and deep learning.
Awards for Teaching Excellence
Associate Professor Justin Walls - Medicine
ALTC Citations 2011 - UTAS Success
Professor Craig Zimitat
Recognising two decades of curriculum development and innovation in medical education.
Recipients of the 2010 Celebration of Excellence Awards are:
Faculty of Health Science staff have again been recognised for their teaching excellence. Awarded the Vice-Chancellors Award for Programs that Enhance Learning is Mrs Jenny Barr, and Vice-Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence is Professor Sankar Sinha.
Award for Teaching Excellence
Professor Sankar Sinha, School of Medicine.
Professor Sinha joined at the University of Tasmania in 1991 as a Senior Lecturer in Surgery. He was soon recognised and rewarded for his quality teaching and was the recipient of a Teaching Excellence Award in 1993.
He joined Royal Hobart Hospital as a staff specialist and established the Leg Ulcer Clinic (now known as the Wound Clinic) – the first of its kind in Tasmania. The Clinic has been extremely successful in improving patients’ quality of life and reducing hospital admissions for this condition, thereby freeing up beds for other seriously ill patients. Professor Sinha currently holds the position of Professor in Wound Care at the University of Tasmania, and Professor and Head of Anatomy in the School of Medicine at Notre Dame University, Sydney. He has continued his role as a staff specialist surgeon at the Royal Hobart Hospital, where his main interest is now in hernia surgery. A passionate teacher, Professor Sinha is constantly engaged in developing innovative student-driven learning activities that are designed to stimulate students’ thinking processes in a stress free environment.
To improve his understanding of educational theory and processes and his capacity to design successful programs, Professor Sanka made time to qualify for the Master in Education degree in 2009 – strong evidence, through his willingness to sacrifice precious leisure time, of his outstanding commitment to the creation of a better learning environment for students under his tutelage. As a consequence of his high standing as a clinical teacher Professor Sinha has been invited to contribute to undergraduate teaching at universities overseas. For instance, he has given lectures to staff and students at the National Naval Hospital in Bethesda, USA, and earlier this year was invited to deliver the Foundation Day lecture and also teach at the K P C Medical College, a recently established medical school in Kolkata. In recognition of his commitment to innovative teaching, Professor Sinha has received Clinical teaching awards in 2004 and 2009, a Teaching Merit Certificate in 2008, a Vice Chancellor’s Award for an Outstanding Contributions to Teaching & Learning in 2008, and, in 2010, an Australian Learning & Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Award for Programs that Enhance Learning
Mrs Jenny Barr, School of Medicine:
Ms Jenny Barr, Coordinator of P3, the Patient Partner Program at the Launceston Clinical School, is the recipient of an Award for Programs that Enhance Learning. Ms Barr is accepting the award on behalf of the P3 team.
Ms Barr joined UTAS in 2005 at the Launceston Clinical School, School of Medicine, to undertake the implementation of this new teaching and learning program. P3, now in its fifth year, has evolved in that time and the P3 leadership team now consists of two Coordinators, the Associate Head of Launceston Clinical School, the Deputy Associate Head of Launceston Clinical School, and a Research Fellow. In addition, there are seven clinician tutors teaching in P3. The program is sustained, however, by volunteer patients from the community, currently more than 270 people. The P3 teaching and learning program impacts on UTAS medical students by providing structured and managed clinical teaching encounters with community patients with chronic illness each week. Experiential learning of the integration of consultation skills and chronic illness management are key aspects of P3. The program promotes a patient-centred approach to learning and clinical practice. In recognition of the impact of the program, P3 received in 2007 a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.
