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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7445
Email
jim.ross@otago.ac.nz

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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.

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