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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7454
Email
tim.wilkinson@otago.ac.nz
Position
Acting Dean of Otago Medical School and Professor of Medicine and Medical Education
Department
Dean's Department (Christchurch)
Qualifications
MB ChB (Otago) PhD(Otago) MClinEd(UNSW) MD FRACP FRCP FANZAHPE FAMEE
Research summary
Professor Wilkinson has interests in health professional education research.
Teaching
  • Minister of Education NZQA Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award (for sustained excellence in tertiary teaching), 2002
  • University of Otago, Christchurch, Gold medal for teaching excellence, 2009
  • University of Otago, Christchurch, Gold medal for research excellence, 2019
Memberships
  • Deputy editor, Medical Education
  • Section editor, BMC medical education
  • Member, Executive Committee, Association for Medical Education Europe
  • Censor, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Clinical
Consultant physician at Canterbury District Health Board

Research

  • Medical education
  • Assessment of competence and performance
  • Workplace learning
  • Professionalism
  • Career Choices

For information about the MB ChB course please visit The Otago Medical Degree website

Townsley, H., Sumner, B., O'Neill, A., Kenwright, D., Wilkinson, T., & Grainger, R. (2024). Student perspectives on health informatics in a medical curriculum: A case study. Focus on Health Professional Education, 25(1), 17-36. doi: 10.11157/fohpe.v25i1.764 Journal - Research Other

Naik, V., Prideaux, D., Hodges, B., Wilkinson, T., O'Connor, N., & Heeneman, S. (2024). The future of high-stakes certification exams for medical licensure in a global health human resource crisis. Proceedings of the Ottawa Conference. 229. Retrieved from https://ottawa2024.au/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Anakin, M., Robertson-Smith, J., & Wilkinson, T. J. (2024). Constructing a research question. In E. L. Rees, A. Ledger & K. A. Walker (Eds.), Starting research in clinical education. (pp. 13-20). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell. Chapter in Book - Research

Nicholson, S., & Wilkinson, T. J. (2024). Selecting for medical school entry: Nature or nurture? In V. Wass & V. Ng (Eds.), Family medicine in the undergraduate curriculum: Preparing medical students to work in evolving health care systems. (pp. 107-114). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781003325734-17 Chapter in Book - Research

Shulruf, B., Tumen-Randal, S., Poole, P., Randall, J., Wrench, D., & Wilkinson, T. (2024). How the Medicine and Science programmes can overcome the impacts of low SES secondary school educational disadvantage. Perspectives, 28(1), 21-27. doi: 10.1080/13603108.2023.2222081 Journal - Research Article

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