Dr Melanie Fentoullis is an Education Focussed academic and Senior Lecturer (Clinical Education Fellow) who supports and leads innovation in course design and evaluation in the Faculty of Medicine and Health.
She has an interest in creating transformational authentic educational experiences by engaging students as partners in curriculum review and development, and designing novel digital learning resources that support blended curricula.
Melanie is passionate about supporting the professional development of students and especially fostering their skills as educators to enhance their effectiveness in teaching their patients, peers, and health professional colleagues. She supports clinical learning and teaching across our Medicine Program as Clinical Skills Tutor (Years 1, 2), Clinical Transition Course Convenor (Year 4) and Phase 3 Medicine Co-Convenor (Years 5, 6) and since 2021 as the Academic Co-Lead for the Medicine Program Redesign.
In 2021 Melanie received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning as well as international professional recognition through Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and Associate Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (AFANZAHPE). This recognition added to Melanie’s 2019 and 2020 UNSW Medicine Educational Excellence Awards for successful initiatives that included interactive online resources to enhance students’ work-place readiness; a cross-cohort peer teaching program for senior students; and responding to the pandemic crisis in medical education with an online ‘Tele-Hospital’.
As a UNSW EF Champion, Peer Reviewer of Teaching, Educational Initiatives Fund grantee, and co-leader of the Clinical Teachers’ Community of Practice, Melanie is a strong advocate for teaching and the EF model campus-wide, and enjoys collaborating with her colleagues across UNSW and beyond.
Email [email protected] to enquire if Melanie is available to mentor you.
Conditions for mentoring facilitation
- one-on-one mentoring
- 1-2 mentees at any stage
Mentor details
Faculties
- Medicine & Health
Academic level
- Lecturer A
- Lecturer B
- Lecturer C
Learning and teaching skills
- Student learning
- Learning and teaching curriculum design
- Assessment and feedback
- Peer review of curriculum
- Formative peer observation of teaching
- Convening a course
- Integrating technologies into learning and teaching
- Active learning spaces
- Evaluation
- General teaching methods
Mentoring discipline
- Mentoring within own/and across disciplines
General experience
- Establishing and building networks
- Deciding on career priorities
- Supporting critical reflection through listening and asking questions
- Identifying leadership opportunities in learning and teaching, research and social engagement