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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7445
Email
jim.ross@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of General Practice and Rural Health (Dunedin)
Qualifications
BA BSc MBChB FRNZCG PGCertMSM PGDipHealSc
Research summary
Primary health care, medical education, conversation analysis, community-based mental health
Teaching
  • General Practice, Primary Care, Rural Health Years 4 - 6, MBChB.
  • Simulation (SECO clinic), Practical Evidence-Based Practice, Communication in Healthcare, Clinical Reasoning, Culture and Diversity in Medicine.
Memberships
  • Royal NZ College of GPs
  • New Zealand Medical Association
  • Medical Protection Society
  • Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine
  • Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (Australia and NZ Chapter)
Clinical

Part-time General Practitioner, hence I am a generalist, but also have particular interests in underserved populations, rural healthcare, multimorbidity and Lifestyle Medicine, Musculoskeletal Medicine, mental health and mental distress (focused ACT).

Research

I am interested in a variety of areas within primary healthcare, including rural healthcare, inter-professional work, Communities of Clinical Practice, and in particular communication between health professionals and with patients using Conversation Analysis (a fine-grained method of analysing recorded interactions).

In addition, I have interests in health professional education research, particularly simulation of consultations using our department's SECO (Safe and Effective Clinical Outcomes) format. We currently have a workstream analyzing student reflective essays regarding their SECO experience, their subsequent recall of SECO principles and a survey tool for assessing this. I am also leading a new longitudinal project examining our teachers' and students' response to Covid-19 teaching changes and subsequent larger curriculum changes.

I also have co-led with Dr Shyamala Nad-Raja some case studies in community-based mental health, initially in rural areas, to develop iteratively a model we call COMHEART (community oriented mental health evaluation action research and training).

Additional details

I have wide interests in the humanities (especially music, literature, theatre, film), both in their own right and as they apply to health care.

I am now a proud grandfather.

Publications

Rudland, J., Al-Busaidi, I., Aldabe, D., Bryant, K., Jones, V., Kane, P., Ma, S., Moffat, S., Noller, G., Peterson, A., Ross, J., Sopoaga, F., & Anderson, L. (2024). Addressing unacceptable behaviours in clinical learning environment. In S. Marshall (Ed.), Proceedings of the 16th Tertiary Education Research in New Zealand (TERNZ) Conference. (pp. 47-48). HERDSA Aotearoa/New Zealand. Retrieved from https://www.herdsa.org.nz/ternz Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Al-Busaidi, I. S., Noller, G., Ross, J. M., Gray, A. R., Peterson, A., Aldabe, D., Rudland, J., Pōtiki Bryant, K., Kane, P., Moffat, S. M., Ma, S., Jones, V., & Anderson, L. (2024). Unacceptable behaviors towards health professional clinical students: Protocol for a mixed-methods study. Health Science Reports, 7, e70190. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.70190 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)

Anderson, L., Ross, J., Noller, G., Aldabe, D., Bryant, K., Peterson, A., & Wainiqolo, I. (2023). Unacceptable behaviour towards clinical students: Impact and a need for change. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from https://aabhlconference.com/2023 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Gu, J., Ross, J., & Leitch, S. (2023). Patient representation in New Zealand general practice and rural health case-based teaching: A quality improvement exercise. Journal of Primary Health Care, 15(3), 281-287. doi: 10.1071/HC23070 Journal - Research Article

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