Resources
Getting
Started
Teaching Activities
Student
Wellbeing
Further Professional Development
Getting
Started
Teaching Activities
Student
Wellbeing
Further Professional Development
Getting started
YEAR 1 AND 2 Resources
CURRICULUM | PLACEMENTS | ASSESSMENT
Hear from our staff and discover custom resources for teachers of our MD students in their first two years of learning, where they focus on the foundations of medicine, encompassing medical sciences, clinical capabilities, public health, medical ethics and law and Indigenous health.
YEAR 3 AND 4 Resources
CURRICULUM | PLACEMENTS | ASSESSMENT
Meet our staff, mentors and access custom resources for teachers and supervisors of our MD students in their third and fourth years of learning, where they acquire real world clinical experience through placements in a range of settings.
Deakin Resources
The following resources are useful for educators involved in teaching across all Year 1 to 4:
2026 Doctor of Medicine dates | Students
2026 Doctor of Medicine Course Handbook
DeakinDesign learning principles and practices
Teaching activities
Conducting small group learning sessions
Learning in small groups is a valuable and evidence-based learning approach for medical students. This open access paper from 2020 covers approaches and tips for facilitating small group learning sessions:
Burgess, A., van Diggele, C., Roberts, C.et al. Facilitating small group learning in the health professions.BMC Med Educ 20 (Suppl 2), 457 (2020).
Teaching online and in-person
Hear from Debbie Baldi, Medical Science Co-Theme Lead on tips for online teaching and lecturing in this video
Consider using audience polling software (like Mentimeter) in face to face lectures to increase engagement and dialogue
Equity and inclusion in teaching
The MD course at Deakin is committed to equity and inclusion in education.
Starting a lecture with a meaningful acknowledgement of country and a discussion about what this means in your context is encouraged.
How to acknowledge country resource
Find out about preferred terms, cultural sensitivity warnings and protocols here
The Inclusive Teaching Toolkit – Inclusive Education (ICCB) contains a wealth of resources designed to support your inclusive teaching
The Damion Drapac Centre at Deakin is a partnership with the Drapac family to honour the legacy of Deakin medical alumnus, Damion. The Centre aims to build a transformational program of socially accountable health professions education.
Tips for teaching in the clinical setting
This open access paper from 2020 covers approaches and tips for patient-based teaching in the clinical setting, including planning and teaching strategies.
Burgess, A., van Diggele, C., Roberts, C. et al. Key tips for teaching in the clinical setting. BMC Med Educ 20 (Suppl 2), 463 (2020).
Giving Feedback
Watch this short video (video 2) of University of Queensland Health Professions Educator Christy Noble giving an excellent overview of how to give effective feedback via engaging students in a learner-centred feedback model. NB: This website will require you to use your Deakin university log in to access the “Australian Access Federation” as the single sign on provider. This video will also be of great utility in supporting postgraduate trainees under your supervision.
For a more comprehensive look at effective feedback, this Office of Learning and Teaching funded site has a wealth of information: Feedback for Learning
Deakin’s CRADLE shares this resource for developing evaluative judgement– one of the key goals of higher education, helping students to recognise and develop quality in their own work. Again, these resources (together with Five feedback strategies for intensive care medicine trainees) are highly relevant to your postgraduate medical trainees too!
Having a discussion about expected professional behaviour
Review this padlet with resources and common questions about expected professional behaviour with our students.
Student wellbeing
Deakin Health and Wellbeing services and resources for students
If you are concerned about a Deakin medical student, please navigate to our Help and Support page on this website, and contact the Deakin Medical School Clinical Education Lead or Deputy Lead, and/or the Unit Chair in the first instance. We have a well-developed system of support to enable us to wrap around all of our medical students and extend the very best services from Deakin to students, wherever they are. For more information on the wide range of services offered by Deakin, please view:
Factors influencing the learning and wellbeing of medical students
Survey Results 2024 ( Li, Y., Wu, L., Li, F. et al. Analysis of factors influencing medical students’ learning engagement and its implications for teaching work—— a network analysis perspective. BMC Med Educ 24, 918 (2024).
For further information of relevance from other bodies including Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand, the AMA and VDHP – please view these resources, which are highly relevant to medical students as well as doctors in general:
MDANZ Preventing & Managing Bullying, discrimination & Harassment – Guide for Medical Schools
Every Doctor, Every Setting: A National Framework– Guiding coordinated action on the mental health of doctors and medical students – Life in Mind Australia
AMA Vic Wellbeing Resources for Doctors
Further professional development
These sites have further resourcers to support educators who wish to develop their educational practice further:
Professional Development in ACCLAiM Series — ACCLAiM
The Australasian Collaboration for Clinical Assessment in Medicine (ACCLAiM) is a collaborative venture between medical schools in Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the primary focus of ACCLAiM, which is benchmarking graduate outcomes in the clinical domain and quality assurance in clinical assessment, the ACCLAiM Community of Practice extends to fostering professional development around clinical assessment. A range of leaders in Medical Education are invited to present to the ACCLAiM consortium as part of The ACCLAiM Professional Development Series. The series of presentations have been warmly welcomed by members, who are appreciative of the time and expertise delivered by guest speakers.
ACCLAiM invites all colleagues at ACCLAiM member schools to join us for these online, bi-monthly events.
A recording of each meeting is available at the links on their site; including professionalism; giving feedback; harnessing AI; Workplace-based Assessment; Emotional Intelligence… and many more.
NB: This website will require you to use your Deakin university log in to access the “Australian Access Federation” as the single sign on provider. The resources on the ACCLAiM website will also be of great utility in supporting postgraduate trainees under your supervision.
ANZAHPE – Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators
The Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators is the peak organisation for practitioners involved in education and training of health professionals in Australia, New Zealand and the Western Pacific region.
ANZAHPE promotes educational research through grants, awards and conference presentations, as well as through its peer-reviewed journal, Focus on Health Professional Education. For health professional educators, one of the highlights of the year is the annual ANZAHPE conference, usually held in July – and featuring presentations across all health professions and all levels of learner – from undergraduate to practising clinicians. ANZAHPE also run professional development webinars, groups and networking events.
Enabling Clinical Education Skills - ClinEdAus
ClinEdAus aims to support high quality clinical placement experiences for health professions students and supervisors through the provision of open access, contemporary, evidence-based clinical education resources that support clinical education across all health professions.
NSW HETI Online Webcast series
New South Wales’ HETI (Health Education and Training Institute) runs a free Evaluation and Research Webcast Series. This series of webinars provides expert insights on thought-provoking aspects of research and evaluation. The webinars feature presentations from distinguished speakers in the field of health education and research, follow by facilitated discussions.
This series is facilitated by Professor Kichu Nair and will be of interest to health professionals who are interested in research design, evaluation and publication.
The webinar content is recorded and available for free viewing on the HETI website.