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Contact Details

Email
julie.myers@otago.ac.nz

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Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Medicine (Wellington)
Qualifications
NZDipPhys, MHealSc, PhD
Research summary
Aviation medicine

Research

Julie Myers is a Senior Lecturer and Course Director Research, and the Masters Co-ordinator for the Occupational and Aviation Medicine Unit (OAMU). She also teaches the paper AVME 785 Research Methods. Her professional background is Physiotherapy and she has a Research Master’s Degree endorsed in Rehabilitation.

Julie has recently completed her PhD, for which she undertook a series of studies focused on understanding the extent and consequences of fatigue-related performance decrements critical care clinicians, particularly those involved in air ambulance transfer. She has adapted methods for assessing clinicians’ non-technical skills as a measure of their clinical performance; and has evaluated the impact of fatigue on the clinical performance and safety of critical care clinicians. She is also interested in Occupational Health issues and measurement of health and quality of life.

Research expertise and interest

I am currently undertaking a series of studies focused on understanding the extent and consequences of fatigue-related performance decrements in clinicians undertaking intensive-care air transfer of patients. Most recent work has focused on methods for measuring clinical performance such as the evaluation of the non-technical skills of intensive care flight clinicians; as well as the impact clinician fatigue has on their performance and safety. I am interested in clinical workload, training, and fatigue risk management for aeromedical transport clinicians. My professional background is Physiotherapy, and I have a Research Master’s Degree endorsed in Rehabilitation. While most research I have undertaken and supervised recently has focused on issues in Aeromedical Retrieval and Transport, and the health of flight crew, I am also interested in Occupational Health issues and measurement of health and quality of life.

Publications

McKinlay, E., Myers, J., Gulliver, L., & Morgan, S. (2026). Preparing students for an interprofessional workforce: How does peer shadowing support student learning about interprofessional collaborative practice? Proceedings of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE) Conference: Weaving Connection Nau te routou, naku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi. 19. Retrieved from https://www.anzahpe.org Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

McKinlay, E., Myers, J., Gulliver, L., & Morgan, S. (2026). Student learning in an interprofessional peer shadowing activity embedded in an IPE curriculum: An Aotearoa New Zealand ethnographic case study. Journal of Medical Education & Curricular Development, 13. doi: 10.1177/23821205261448297 Journal - Research Article

McKinlay, E., Morgan, S., Myers, J., & Gulliver, L. (2025, November). What students learn from peer shadowing a student of another discipline and how this builds their collaborative practice skills to work in primary health care teams. Verbal presentation at the Academic GP conference, Hamilton, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

McKinlay, E., Morgan, S., Myers, J., & Gulliver, L. (2025, November). What do students learn from peer shadowing of a student of another discipline? Verbal presentation at the Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) Showcase, Auckland, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Beka, S. G., Griffiths, R. F., Myers, J. A., & Skirrow, P. M. (2025). Post-COVID-19 neurocognitive screening in routine pilot aeromedical evaluations. Aerospace Medicine & Human Performance, 96(10), 931-935. doi: 10.3357/AMHP.6700.2025 Journal - Research Article

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