Professor Nicky (JN) Hudson, Theme Leader Clinical Competency, Professor of Community-Based Health Education

Professor Nicky (JN) Hudson was appointed as the Director of the Division of Clinical Education at the University of Wollongong's Graduate School of Medicine in Jan 2005.

After obtaining a BSc at the University of Western Australia (Biochemistry and Microbiology), Nicky Hudson completed an MSc degree (Virology) at Queens University in Canada. Following several years of teaching and research experience in Australia and overseas, she returned to Adelaide and gained a BMBS degree at Flinders University in Adelaide. After first working in general practice and in Indigenous Health at Nunkuwarrin Yunti in Adelaide, in 2001 she joined the Royal Flying Doctor Service in South Australia, doing sessional work on a project to give rural and remote women access to female medical practitioners. As a general practitioner in Adelaide, she served as a Board Member on the Adelaide Central and Eastern Division of General Practice and was involved in the Co-ordinated Care Trials in South Australia, as a GP leader on the SAHealthPlus Homeless Persons Pilot Project.

She started her academic career in the Department of Physiology at the University of Adelaide in 1995, playing a major role in medical curriculum development and reform, as well as teaching medical students and commencing a research project on the challenge of linking theory to practice in medical education. She was awarded a PhD on this theme by the University of Adelaide early in 2005. Her academic experience at the University of Adelaide includes a more recent position in the Medical Education Unit as Director of Clinical Education at two of the major teaching hospitals in Adelaide. As a foundation staff member of Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England (2002-2004 inclusive), she gained further valuable experience to contribute to the development of an innovative medical curriculum at the new Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Wollongong.

Her research interests in medical education have included linking theory to practice in curriculum and assessment, the role of emotional intelligence in medical education, and peer-assisted learning. She is an active member of the global medical education community, presenting regularly at international medical education conferences. Apart from awarded professional memberships with the American Physiological Society, and the Higher Education Academy in the UK, she is a member of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) and the Australia and New Zealand Association of Medical Educators (ANZAME). In 2005, she was awarded the ANZAME Seeding Grant for support of research in medical education.

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