University of Tasmania, Australia

Senior Lecturer in Medicine

MBBS(Hons I), BMedSci(Hons I)(UTAS), FRACP

General Responsibilities

Dr Yee is clinically trained as a transplant hepatologist and interventional endoscopist. His clinical interests include GI cancer screening and prevention and viral hepatology. He is currently the Academic Coordinator for Calvary attachment program at Hobart Clinical School. He is a member of National Quality Expert Group with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP). He also provides consultative advice to Quality and Safety organisations, including the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

Teaching Responsibilities

Dr Yee is currently the Academic Coordinator of Calvary attachment and has developed the current teaching and clinical attachment program for Calvary attachment. Dr Yee also delivers the hospital readiness program and intern transition program for Hobart Clinical School. The focus of the program is about safe practice. In 2013, Dr Yee, Mr Taylor (School of Pharmacy) and Mrs Self (School of Nursing and Midwifery) will trial a clinical multidisciplinary teaching program to improve patient safety: the MERECLES program.

Publications

• Scott, I., Phelps, G., Gow, P., Kendall, P., Lane, G., Frost, G., & Yee, K. C. (2012). Putting professionalism and delivery of value-added healthcare at the heart of physician training and continual professional development. Internal Medicine Journal, 47, pp. 737-741.
• Yee, K. C., Jorm, C., & Kaneen, T. (2010). OSSIE guide to clinical handover improvement. Sydney, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. pp. 1-56.
• Yee, K. C. (2009). Challenges of the "omics" future and pathology informatics systems: are we – pathologists, clinicians and consumers – ready? Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 133, pp. 938-941.
• Yee, K. C., Wong, M. C. & Turner, P. (2009). Hand me an isobar: a pilot study of an evidence-based approach to improving shift-to-shift clinical handover. Medical Journal of Australia, 190, pp. S121-S124.
• Yee, K. C., Mills, E., & Airey, C. (2008). Perfect match? Generation Y as change agents for information communication technology implementation in healthcare. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 136, pp. 496-501.

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Additional Information

Research Interests

Dr Yee's research interest is in the area of quality and safety in health care. His research domains include:

• Clinical education and supervision for safety
• Health informatics and IT innovation for safety
• Medication safety
• Patient as a driver for quality and safety
• Innovation and safety in clinical gastroenterology and hepatology.

He is a recognised expert in the field of clinical communication and clinical handover. He is the primary author of the national clinical handover guide, the OSSIE guide, which was submitted to the World Health Organization (WHO) or consideration as the international standardised operating protocol for clinical handover. Dr Yee has delivered multiple national and international presentations and workshops on this topic. He is also the author of many peer review publications and guidelines in this area. 

Active Research Projects

The list below provides a description of active research projects that Dr Yee is currently involved in throughout 2013-2018. Dr Yee welcomes opportunities for collaboration with other researchers. Potential involvement of higher degree research students (including Honours students) will also be possible starting from 2014.

 

Domain 1: Clinical education and supervision for safety

1. CSI: Tasmania: This research project aims to understand clinical supervision of internship across different healthcare disciplines
2. MERECLES: This research project aims to understand and explore theory and practice of clinical multi-disciplinary teaching and learning for patient safety
3. “My Aussie Journey”: This is a 5-year longitudinal followup study of international medical students in order to understand learning styles and processes

Domain 2: Health informatics innovation and safety

1. Page-Tract study: This research project aims to develop a conceptual framework to support asynchronous communication in acute hospital system
2. Home information tacking (HIT) study: This research project aims to understand health care utilisation and information requirements for patient care post-discharged from hospital
3. SMARD project: This research projects aims to develop a conceptual framework to understand deterioration, detection and response

Domain 3: Patient as driver for safety

1. Patient derived quality and safety indicators
2. Patient complaints registry for education and training
3. Clinical handover to improve safety through continuity of patient care

Domain 4: Medication safety

1. The development of a cognitive discourse framework for patient-centred medication management
2. An understanding of the complexity in personal medication storage
3. Indigenous population understanding of medication and medication safety

Domain 5: Innovation and safety in clinical gastroenterology and hepatology

1. Beyond virus: This project aims to understand patient journey through hepatitis C treatment and to develop innovative technology to assist treatment process
2. Patient-centred model for colorectal cancer screening: Quality and safety from the eyes of the patient
3. IT innovation to assist chronic disease management in GI diseases