Teaching professionalism: What can colleagues in HASS and STEM disciplines learn from each other, and what are the opportunities for interdisciplinary research?
The Team: Jane Duffy
The project is about teaching of professionalism and my colleague Evie Kendal and I were very aware that lots of programs teach professionalism at Deakin, but we weren’t aware of any collaboration or discussion between academics with expertise in this area.
At this stage we’ve got participation from quite a few of the schools in the Faculty of Health, so Medicine – my school, Psychology, Nursing, Midwifery and Dietetics. Then as far as disciplines outside of health, we’ve found some key people in Law, IT and Education. What we’ve managed to do is get people who were very generous in giving up their time to come to a workshop, who have real experience and expertise in the area and seem very keen to do some collaboration.
It’s provided the impetus to get the key players in the one room and I now have at least an informal network at Deakin of people who have more experience than I do in teaching professionalism.
The Team: Jane Duffy (co-investigator, pictured)
In partnership with Deakin School of Medicine (Faculty of Health).