Caroline Johnson, MBBS, FRACGP, GCUT, PhD
Associate Professor, Academic Specialist in Primary Care, University of Melbourne
Director of Teaching and Learning, Department of General Practice
Co-director of Clinician-Educator Pathways, Melbourne Medical School
Co-Lead, Implementation and Translation Network, The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation
Dates of Visit: July 10 – 20, 2023 (virtual)
Biography
Dr. Caroline Johnson’s expertise encompasses clinical, teaching, research and advocacy work that impact on the quality of primary care, as a cornerstone of health care systems nationally and internationally, with particular attention to primary mental health care. She has been in clinical practice for over 30 years and contributed as a medical educator since the mid-1990s, moving increasingly into mental health advocacy and research in the last 25 years, via numerous national and regional roles as an expert advisor and policy shaper.
Her teaching practice encompasses educating doctors from all levels, including undergraduate, postgraduate, vocational training and continuing professional development. Her current focus is faculty development and career progression for those clinician-educators who follow in her footsteps. With her hospital colleague, Dr Wonie Uahwatanasakul, they have been awarded a teaching fellowship to develop a program of activity to support clinician-educators in skill development and career progression.
Purpose of Visit
As first step to supporting clinician-educators in the faculty, Dr. Johnson wants to find out what their needs and wants might be. For this virtual visit, she wants to explore what is already known about what motivates clinicians to teach, and what their skill development needs might be. Dr. Johnson is hoping this will lead to a F2F visit at CHES in 2024, to assist in developing a sustainable clinician-educator community of practice for our faculty. She seeks to understand how they might build a framework to guide clinicians to develop the skills they need to offer high quality learning experiences for our students, but also to demonstrate their output in a way that enables career progression for those who wish to pursue this.