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HERDSA Special Interest Group: Health Sciences

The role of Health Sciences SIG is to focus on health science education across undergraduate and postgraduate coursework programs including professional healthcare courses (medicine, nursing, dentistry, psychology, physiotherapy etc) and more generic ones including but not limited to health promotion, nutrition, and public health. This SIG aims to develop new practices around authentic learning which may involve experiential and/or work-integrated approach, design of authentic assessment that may integrative reflective pieces on student preparedness for workforce, knowledge translation and teaching and learning practice improvement.

If you would like to get involved in the Health Science SIG please contact the SIG Leader Snezana Kusljic.

SIG Leader:  Snezana Kusljic

Email: skusljic@unimelb.edu.au

Health Sciences SIG Autumn 2023 Update

The Health Sciences SIG, a newly formed group with Associate Professor Snezana Kusljic as its founding chair, was established this year.

The aim of the group is to develop new practices around authentic learning.

The group has set up a SLACK internal channel for sharing ideas, creating, and making decisions and all 29 members are involved. Health Science practitioners take note.