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Contact Details

Phone
+64 21 267 6994
Email
hamishjwilson@gmail.com

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Position
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Primary Health Care (Dunedin)
Qualifications
MB ChB MGP(Dist)(Otago) DipObst(Auck) MRNZCGP
Research summary
Current Project: Learning how to identify and explain Persistent Physical Symptoms (PPS) to patients
Teaching
  • Convener, Healthcare in the Community module, Early Learning in Medicine, Otago Medical School
  • Convener, Nature of Medical Practice (postgraduate paper)
Clinical

Dr Wilson works part-time in primary care at the Urgent Doctors Clinic in Dunedin.

Research

Current Project: Learning how to identify and explain Persistent Physical Symptoms (PPS) to patients

After several years of educational research, our students are now being taught how to identify, explain, and better manage patients with persistent symptoms (i.e. functional symptoms, chronic pain, somatisation). Explanations are based on emerging insights from the neurosciences. Teaching resources include the locally produced “The Persistent Symptoms Handbook', Demonstration Videos, and well-designed Interactive Workshops.

Research team

  • Associate Professor Hamish Wilson, Department of General Practice
  • Mr John Dunbar, Department of Orthopaedics, Healthcare Otago
  • Professor Tony Dowell, University of Otago, Wellington
  • Dr Martyn Williamson, Department of General Practice
  • Dr Maria Kleinstaueber, Utah State University, USA
  • Cassie Withie-Rila, Research Fellow

Contact details

Hamish Wilson
Email hamish.wilson@otago.ac.nz or hamishjwilson@gmail.com

General Practice and Rural Health Administrator
Email gpandrhadmin@otago.ac.nz

Additional details

Short biography

Dr Hamish Wilson graduated from the University of Otago in 1978. He worked as a solo GP in Christchurch in the 1980s before taking up a part-time Senior Lecturer position in the Department of General Practice in 1996. He runs postgraduate courses for GPs and since 2008, he has helped to revise the Early Learning in Medicine programme for Year 2/3 students, convening the innovative Healthcare in the Community programme (HIC).

With Dr Wayne Cunningham, he recently published Being a Doctor: Understanding Medical Practice (University of Otago Press, 2013), a textbook that addresses the gap between medical theory and the reality of clinical practice. He has also researched and published on the doctor patient relationship, role modelling, complaints, and patients' experiences of health care. During his research and study leave in 2013, he travelled to Canada, USA and the UK to explore undergraduate curricula that address the health and wellbeing of medical students. He is married to Annette, has two adult children, and lives in Dunedin.

Publications

Moir, F., Usher, K., & Wilson, H. (2024). New Zealand: The power of connection: Perspectives on medical student wellbeing in New Zealand. In A. Molodynski, S. M. Farrell & D. Bhugra (Eds.), The mental health of medical students: Supporting wellbeing in medical education. (pp. 218-236). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192864871.003.0019 Chapter in Book - Research

Ventres, W. B., Stone, L. A., Wilson, H. J., Sexton, S. M., Doukas, D. J., Cerdeña, J. P., … Frey III, J. J. (2024). Storylines of family medicine XI: Professional identity formation: Nurturing one’s own story. Family Medicine & Community Health, 12(Suppl. 3), e002827. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2024-002827 Journal - Research Other

Wilson, H., Withey-Rila, C., Williamson, M., Dowell, T., Ross, J., & Kleinstauber, M. (2024, March). Helping medical students gain confidence and competence for chronic pain and other persistent somatic symptoms: Research, training workshops and a basket of resources (“Te Kete”). Poster session presented at the New Zealand Pain Society (NZPS) Annual Scientific Meeting: Empowering Pain Management in New Zealand, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Gilbert-Obrart, A., & Wilson, H. (2022). First experiences of the dying patient: Student essays from Australia. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 57(4), 256-258. doi: 10.1177/00912174221105841 Journal - Research Other

Wilson, H. (2022). Anticipating a side effect makes it more likely you'll experience it: This could contribute to vaccine hesitancy. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/anticipating-a-side-effect-makes-it-more-likely-youll-experience-it-this-could-contribute-to-vaccine-hesitancy-180331 Journal - Research Other

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