معرفی
Dr. Kathy Brotchie serves as a Senior Lecturer at Monash University's Rural Health Latrobe Valley and West Gippsland department. Her work focuses on medical education innovation, particularly in clinical skills training methodologies and assessment design. She has actively contributed to curriculum development in flipped classroom environments and Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) improvement frameworks.
Her research emphasizes optimizing clinical teaching through deliberate practice strategies, cognitive load reduction techniques, and simulation-based learning. Notable contributions include developing tools to enhance OSCE validity and exploring challenges in rural health workforce training. Brotchie has consistently published on medical education pedagogy since 2012, addressing topics ranging from flipped classroom implementation to ethical aspects of health worker migration.
- Key research areas: Clinical assessment methods, medical curriculum design, rural health training
- 14 peer-reviewed outputs between 2012-2017
- Focus on OSCE improvement, simulation technology, and faculty workload management during educational reforms
