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Dr Megan Anakin

Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 5678
Email
megan.anakin@otago.ac.nz

University Links

Position
Senior Lecturer and Education Adviser
Qualifications
BSc(McGill) BFA(NSCAD) BEd(Dalhousie) MEd(Simon Fraser) PhD(Otago)
Research summary
Education research with a focus on teaching, learning, assessment, and evaluation

Research

Megan Anakin is a Senior Lecturer and Education Adviser in the Education Unit of the Office of the Dean at the Dunedin School of Medicine. Her research aims to enhance our knowledge of students’ and teachers’ understanding and experiences of teaching, learning, assessment, and evaluation in health professional education.

The types of questions she asks are: In a given context, how can student learning be optimised? How do the instructional methods, learning opportunities, and assessment practices that teachers use impact their students’ achievement? How does the structure and implementation of curriculum influence student engagement and learning? Her interests focus on students’ experiences of learning and assessment, students’ conceptual development, curriculum and faculty development, and interprofessional education. She has established collaborations with Departments within the Otago School of Medicine and the Schools of Pharmacy and Physiotherapy at the University of Otago, Dunedin; and with the Department of Occupational Therapy at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin.

In her past life she was a teacher. She has taught in primary, secondary, and tertiary classrooms in Canada, the UK, and New Zealand.

Publications

Beckingsale, L., Ronayne, C., Robertson-Smith, J., & Anakin, M. (2023). ‘Where to next’: The secret to writing constructive review comments. Focus on Health Professional Education, 24(3). doi: 10.11157/fohpe.v24i3.740

Lee, C., Hall, K. H., & Anakin, M. (2023). Finding themselves, their place, their way: Uncertainties identified by medical students [Groundwork]. Teaching & Learning in Medicine. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10401334.2023.2233003

Lee, C., Hall, K., Anakin, M., & Pinnock, R. (2023). Medical students' responses to uncertainty: A cross-sectional study using a new self-efficacy questionnaire in Aotearoa New Zealand. BMJ Open, 13, e066154. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066154

Lee, C. A., Wilkinson, T. J., Timmermans, J. A., Ali, A. N., & Anakin, M. G. (2023). Revealing the impact of the hidden curriculum on faculty teaching: A qualitative study. Medical Education, 57, 761-769. doi: 10.1111/medu.15026

Ma, R., McHaffie, A., Subramaniam, R. M., & Anakin, M. (2023). Student and educator experiences of an integrated medical imaging curriculum. Academic Radiology, 30, 765-770. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2022.05.006

Linsell, C., Cox, A., Anakin, M., Jones, R., & Smith, D. (2015). Algebra everywhere: Developing students' algebraic thinking with meaningful dialogue. In R. Averill (Ed.), Mathematics and statistics in the middle years: Evidence and practice. (pp. 271-288). Wellington, New Zealand: NZCER Press.

Chapter in Book - Research

Lee, C. A., Wilkinson, T. J., Timmermans, J. A., Ali, A. N., & Anakin, M. G. (2023). Revealing the impact of the hidden curriculum on faculty teaching: A qualitative study. Medical Education, 57, 761-769. doi: 10.1111/medu.15026

Journal - Research Article

Lee, C., Hall, K. H., & Anakin, M. (2023). Finding themselves, their place, their way: Uncertainties identified by medical students [Groundwork]. Teaching & Learning in Medicine. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10401334.2023.2233003

Journal - Research Article

Lee, C., Hall, K., Anakin, M., & Pinnock, R. (2023). Medical students' responses to uncertainty: A cross-sectional study using a new self-efficacy questionnaire in Aotearoa New Zealand. BMJ Open, 13, e066154. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066154

Journal - Research Article

Ma, R., McHaffie, A., Subramaniam, R. M., & Anakin, M. (2023). Student and educator experiences of an integrated medical imaging curriculum. Academic Radiology, 30, 765-770. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2022.05.006

Journal - Research Article

Kennedy, E., & Anakin, M. (2022). Insights about instructional design features of an interprofessional education initiative involving clinical reasoning with physiotherapy and medicine students. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 50(3), 126-132. doi: 10.15619/NZJP/50.3.04

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Anakin, M. G., Duffull, S. B., & Wright, D. F. B. (2021). Therapeutic decision-making in primary care pharmacy practice. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 17, 326-331. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.04.005

Journal - Research Article

Anakin, M., & McDowell, A. (2021). Enhancing students’ experimental knowledge with active learning in a pharmaceutical science laboratory. Pharmacy Education, 21, 29-38. doi: 10.46542/pe.2021.211.2938

Journal - Research Article

Beck, S., Carlin, E., Moore, K. G., & Anakin, M. (2021). Adapting online education resources to meet the needs of an emergency medicine training programme in a pilot feasibility study. MedEdPublish, 10(1), 80. doi: 10.15694/mep.2021.000080.1

Journal - Research Article

Lee, C., Hall, K., Anakin, M., & Pinnock, R. (2021). Towards a new understanding of uncertainty in medical education. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 27, 1194-1204. doi: 10.1111/jep.13503

Journal - Research Article

McMillan, M., Rhodes, J., Winder, P., Strathearn, M., & Anakin, M. (2021). Comparing evaluation responses of an interprofessional education initiative with students in undergraduate nursing and medical programmes. Nurse Education Today, 105, 105023. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.105023

Journal - Research Article

Phang, R., Beck, S., Dar, O., Robertson-Smith, J., Fyfe, C., Scanlan, M., Thomas, S., Wrigley, R., & Anakin, M. (2021). Using systems thinking to identify staff and patient safety issues in infectious disease simulation scenarios. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 61, 23-32. doi: 10.1016/j.ecns.2021.08.026

Journal - Research Article

Ali, A., Anakin, M., Tweed, M. J., & Wilkinson, T. J. (2020). Towards a definition of distinction in professionalism. Teaching & Learning in Medicine, 32(2), 126-138. doi: 10.1080/10401334.2019.1705826

Journal - Research Article

Anakin, M., Jouart, M., Timmermans, J., & Pinnock, R. (2020). Student experiences of learning clinical reasoning. Clinical Teacher, 17, 52-57. doi: 10.1111/tct.13014

Journal - Research Article

Marra, C. A., Khakban, A., Wilby, K. J., Buckham, R. B., & Anakin, M. (2020). Using best-worst choice methodology in a survey of pharmacists regarding pharmacy practice skills teaching. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 84(12), 848015, 1603-1609. doi: 10.5688/ajpe848015

Journal - Research Article

Olson, H., Ronayne, C., Anakin, M., Meldrum, A., & Rich, A. (2020). Working together in clinical pathology: An interprofessional education initiative for dentistry, oral health, and medical laboratory science teachers and students. MedEdPublish, 9(1), 9. doi: 10.15694/mep.2020.000009.2

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Wright, D. F. B., Duffull, S. B., Wilby, K. J., Peterson, A. K., & Anakin, M. G. (2020). Measuring the development of therapeutic-decision-making skills by practicing pharmacists undertaking a university-based postgraduate clinical qualification at distance. Pharmacy, 8(2), 83. doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8020083

Journal - Research Article

Pinnock, R., Anakin, M., & Jouart, M. (2019). Clinical reasoning as a threshold skill. Medical Teacher, 41(6), 683-689. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2019.1569754

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Pinnock, R., Anakin, M., Lawrence, J., Chignell, H., & Wilkinson, T. (2019). Identifying developmental features in student's clinical reasoning to inform teaching. Medical Teacher, 41(3), 297-302. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2018.1463433

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Anakin, M., Spronken-Smith, R., Healey, M., & Vajoczki, S. (2018). The contextual nature of university-wide curriculum change. International Journal for Academic Development, 23(3), 206-218. doi: 10.1080/1360144X.2017.1385464

Journal - Research Article

Duffull, S. B., Wright, D. F. B., Marra, C. A., & Anakin, M. G. (2018). A philosophical framework for pharmacy in the 21st century guided by ethical principles. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 14(3), 309-316. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2017.04.049

Journal - Research Article

Gee, W., Anakin, M., & Pinnock, R. (2017). Using theory to interpret how senior clinicians define, learn, and teach clinical reasoning. MedEdPublish, 6(4), 13. doi: 10.15694/mep.2017.000182

Journal - Research Article

Nairn, K., Cameron, J., Anakin, M., Juntrasook, A., Wass, R., Sligo, J., & Morrison, C. (2015). Negotiating the challenge of collaborative writing: Learning from one writing group's mutiny. Higher Education Research & Development, 34(3), 596-608. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2014.973383

Journal - Research Article

van der Meer, J., Berg, D., Smith, J., Gunn, A., & Anakin, M. (2015). Shorter is better: Findings of a bite-size mobile learning’ pilot project. Creative Education, 6(3), 273-282. doi: 10.4236/ce.2015.63026

Journal - Research Article

Linsell, C., & Anakin, M. (2012). Diagnostics assessment of pre-service teachers' mathematical content knowledge. Mathematics Teacher Education & Development, 14(2), 4-27.

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Beckingsale, L., Ronayne, C., Robertson-Smith, J., & Anakin, M. (2023). ‘Where to next’: The secret to writing constructive review comments. Focus on Health Professional Education, 24(3). doi: 10.11157/fohpe.v24i3.740

Journal - Research Other

Lee, C., Olson, H., & Anakin, M. (2022). Advice for constructing a productive supervisory relationship in education research. Medical Science Educator. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s40670-022-01688-6

Journal - Research Other

Davies, N., Anakin, M., & Dennis, C. (2021). "TiMEtoTeach": An approach to recognise and develop 'universal faculty' as teachers of undergraduate medical students. Medical Teacher, 43(8), 906-907. doi: 10.1080/0142159x.2021.1929909

Journal - Research Other

Anakin, M., Cuthbert, A. M., Luo, Q., Mwangi, B. M., Scoggins, R. J., Tang, A., Wong, V., & Wright, D. F. B. (2020). How do pharmacy students describe decision-making about drug therapy? MedEdPublish, 9(1), 20. doi: 10.15694/mep.2020.000020.1

Journal - Research Other

Bacchi, S., Asahina, A., Wang, D., Wagner, M., Pisaniello, M., French, J., … Anakin, M., Wilkinson, T., Gallagher, S. J., … Licinio, J. (2020). The associations among medical student debt, distress and resilience in the early years of medical school: An international cross-sectional study. Australasian Psychiatry, 28(4), 468-469. doi: 10.1177/1039856220917078

Journal - Research Other

Duffull, S. B., Anakin, M. G., & Wright, D. F. B. (2019). Understanding the process of clinical judgement for pharmacists when making clinical decisions. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 15(5), 607-614. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2018.08.005

Journal - Research Other

Wright, D. F. B., Anakin, M. G., & Duffull, S. B. (2019). Clinical decision-making: An essential skill for 21st century pharmacy practice. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 15(5), 600-606. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2018.08.001

Journal - Research Other

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