Dr Rachel Thompson, Academic Mentor, Medicine

Dr Rachel Thompson is Education Focussed academic. She is a medical doctor, trained in public health as a postgraduate.

Since 2004, she has worked in the Office of Medical Education in Medicine as a medical education academic. In 2007 she became the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Fellow for the faculty with the role of supporting L&T across the faculty and liaising on L&T across the university. This includes running the MedEd Interest Group and organising the Faculty's annual education awards, education training seminars, workshops and annual education forum. She convenes and teaches the "Quality of Medical Practice" element of the 6-year medical program and has convened/been involved in designing courses across all 3 phases of the program.

Dr Thompson has specialised in blended approaches to teaching evidence-based practice and statistics. This includes developing audio-visual content in various formats and developing Smart Sparrow adaptive tutorials. Currently, she is converting some of her class activities to team-based learning formats.

Over the years, Dr Thompson has been highly awarded for many of her contributions to learning and teaching including an Australian Government, Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Email [email protected] to enquire if Rachel is available to mentor you. 

Conditions for mentoring facilitation

• one-on-one mentoring
• 3-4 mentees at any stage