A/Prof Paula Heggarty is the Principal Medical Educator for the JCU GP Training program and also the assessment coordinator for Year 4 in the College of Medicine and Dentistry.

She holds responsibility for strategic leadership of the JCU GP education program and curriculum development. She is the chair of the Education Committee and Co-Chair of the Training Assistance and Monitoring Committee for JCU GP Training.

Her main interest is development of learning and teaching resources including online learning modules and systems within the GP training program. Clinical reasoning, general practice simulation clinics and formative assessment are other areas of special focus. Her current research interests include evaluation of workbased assessment in medical education and evaluation of patient safety strategies in GP training.

She was awarded a JCU and a National award from the Office of Learning and teaching in 2014 for Outstanding Contribution to student learning.

She also focuses to strengthen collaboration within General Practice including Primary Health Networks, the RACGP, and ACRRM.

Paula remains a clinician and works as a GP in Townsville.

Interests

Teaching

• Assessment and learning support

Research Disciplines

• Health services and systems (4203)
• Curriculum and pedagogy (3901)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Malau-Aduli B, Alele F, Heggarty P, Reeve C and Teague P (2021) Key elements of effective postgraduate GP educational environments: a mixed methods study. BMJ Open, 11 (2).
• Heggarty P, Teague P, Alele F, Adu M and Malau-Aduli B (2020) Role of formative assessment in predicting academic success among GP registrars: a retrospective longitudinal study. BMJ Open, 10 (11).
• Lytton K, Woolley T, Rasalam R, Gorton S and Heggarty P (2019) Benefits of simulated General Practice clinics in the preparation of medical students for primary healthcare. Education for Primary Care, 30 (5). pp. 275-281
• Malau-Aduli B, Alele F, Heggarty P, Teague P, Sen Gupta T and Hays R (2019) Perceived clinical relevance and retention of basic sciences across the medical education continuum. Advances in Physiology Education, 43 (3). pp. 293-299
• Malau-Aduli B, Alele F, Collares C, Reeve C, Van der Vleuten C, Holdsworth M, Heggarty P and Teague P (2019) Validity of the scan of postgraduate educational environment domains (SPEED) questionnaire in a rural general practice training setting. BMC Medical Education, 19.
• Malau-Aduli B, Teague P, Turner R, Holman B, D'Souza K, Garne D, Heal C, Heggarty P, Hudson J, Wilson I and van der Vleuten C (2016) Improving assessment practice through cross-institutional collaboration: an exercise on the use of OSCEs. Medical Teacher, 38 (3). pp. 263-271

Other research outputs

• Roche P, Lytton K, Rasalam R, Heggarty P, Woolley T and Harvey N (2019) Simulated acute care wards: do they help prepare medical students for future hospital practice. Proceedings of the Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators. In: ANZAHPE 2019: Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators, 1-4 July 2019, Canberra, ACT, Australia
• Malau-Aduli B, Kerlen Y, Teague P, Bellingan M, Heggarty P, Johnson P and Sen Gupta T (2015) How much basic science knowledge do our students remember? Abstracts from ANZAPHE-AMEA 2015. In: ANZAPHE-AMEA 2015: Joint Conference of ANZAPHE and AMEA, 29 March-2 April 2015, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
• Malau-Aduli B, Teague P, Turner R, D'Souza K, Garne D and Wilson I (2014) Benchmarking the attainment of clinical competence. Abstracts from 16th Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions. In: OTTAWA 2014: 16th Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions, 25-29 April 2014, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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