Associate Professor Lyndal Parker-Newlyn

Associate Professor of Medical Education
Head, Medical Education Unit
Head, Graduate School of Medicine - Shoalhaven
Academic Leader, Admissions

Associate Professor Lyndal Parker-Newlyn holds the appointment of Associate Professor of Medical Education, is the Head of GSM at the Shoalhaven Campus and has been with the school since February 2006. Her duties include oversight of the educational flavour and delivery of the curriculum, particularly the case based delivery aspects such as the Case Based Learning activities and core clinical presentation blueprints. She is also the Academic Leader of the Admissions & Selection process for the GSM.

Lyndal holds a Bachelor of Medicine (Honours) from the University of Newcastle and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She has also completed a Masters in Health Science (Education) from the University of Sydney. After completing her undergraduate medical training in Newcastle, Lyndal worked as Airfield Emergency Officer and Senior Medical Officer for the Royal Australian Navy at HMAS Albatross. She completed her General Practice specialty training, and since leaving the RAN has had over a decade of experience as a rural general practitioner in Nowra.

Lyndal has a keen interest in medical politics, serving as a board member, program manager, Deputy Chairman and finally Chairman of the Shoalhaven Division of General Practice since 2001. She has a history of committee involvement at a local, state and national level including Deputy Chair of the NSW Rural Doctors Network, and Deputy Chair of Rural Health Workforce Australia (the national peak body for rural workforce agencies in Australia).

Her experience with teaching covers nursing staff, medical students, general practice registrars and medical sailors and she is passionate about rural general practice and workforce issues affecting rural communities. She is particularly interested in the development of clinical reasoning in medical students, the delivery of education at distributed campuses and the factors that motivate students to consider rural medicine as a career path.

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