Associate Professor Katrina Anderson
Biography
Director of GP Education, Academic Unit of General Practice
Associate Professor ANU Medical School
Chair, Integrated Child and Community Health program ANU
Medical Education Adviser, Canberra Region Medical Education Council
RACGP General Practitioner of the Year 2018 – NSW ACT
Australian Award for University Teaching2017 National award for Excellence in Education within Biological and Health Sciences.
Dr Katrina Anderson is Associate Professor, Academic Unit of General Practice, ANU Medical School (ANUMS) and Medical Education Adviser for the Canberra Region Medical Education Council. Katrina currently works clinically in refugee and asylum seeker health and has a variety of roles within the ANUMS and ACT Health in training medical students and junior doctors.
Her main research and education interests are in medical education specifically around the vertical integration of medical training, supervisor support and prevocational training of doctors. She has a special interest in mental health, counselling and self-care and is passionate about patient centred medicine and improving health outcomes for vulnerable and disadvantaged patients.
Katrina completed her undergraduate medical degree at the University of Newcastle, NSW in 1990. She became a Fellow of the RACGP in 1995 and has been a medical educator and academic since 1994 initially with the RACGP then with the Australian National University Medical School. She was the Director of GP Training for the SENSW and ACT region for 8 years and Director of the Prevocational GP Placement Program for 6 years.
Katrina is currently the Chair of the Integrated Child and Community Health semester in the third-year medical school program at ANUMS. She is Director of the Healer's Art Course delivered to first year medical students. She also led the development of the Canberra Region Medical Education Council which oversees the quality and safety of junior doctor training and the professional development of doctors in training in the ACT and SENSW region. She was the inaugural Chair from 2014-2022.
Publications
- Looi, J, Anderson, K, Bonner, D et al. 2020, 'Student evaluations of teaching (SET): implications for medical education in psychiatry and an approach to evaluating SET and student performance', Australasian Psychiatry, vol. online.
- Anderson, K & Looi, J 2020, 'Chronic Zoom Syndrome: emergence of an insidious and debilitating mental health disorder during COVID-19', Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 669-670.
- Dick, M, Henderson, M, Wei, Y et al 2019, 'A systematic review of the approaches to multi-level learning in the general practice context, using a realist synthesis approach: BEME Guide No. 55', Medical Teacher, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 862-876.
- Jaiswal, C, Anderson, K & Haesler, E 2019, 'A self-report of the Healer's art by junior doctors: does the course have a lasting influence on personal experience of humanism, self-nurturing skills and medical counterculture?', BMC Medical Education, vol. 19, no. 443, pp. 1-9.
- Liu, W, Forbat, L & Anderson, K 2019, 'Death of a close friend: Short and long-term impacts on physical, psychological and social well-being', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1-17.
- Liu, W, Forbat, L & Anderson, K 2019, 'Correction: Death of a close friend: Short and long-term impacts on physical, psychological and social well-being', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 14, no. 5, pp. -.
- Looi, J & Anderson, K 2018, 'Between SET and ASP: balancing the scales of student evaluation of teaching (SET) and teachers' assessments of student performance (ASP) for medical school education in psychiatry', Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 659-661.
- Anderson, K & Thomson, J 2018, Building a community of learning in general practice, Cambridge Media, USA.
- Rowse, J, Anderson, K, Phillips, C et al. 2016, 'Critical case analysis of adverse events associated with failure to use interpreters for non-English speaking patients.'.
- Sturgiss, E, Haesler, E & Anderson, K 2016, 'General practice trainees face practice ownership with fear', Australian Health Review, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 661-666.
- Anderson, K, Haesler, E, Stubbs, A et al 2015, 'Comparing general practice and hospital rotations', The Clinical Teacher, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 8-13.
- Thomson, J, Haesler, E, Anderson, K et al. 2014, 'What motivates general practitioners to teach', Clinical Teacher, The, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 124-130.
- Thomson, J, Anderson, K, Haesler, E et al. 2014, 'THE LEARNER'S PERSPECTIVE IN GP TEACHING PRACTICES WITH MULTI-LEVEL LEARNERS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY', BMC Medical Education, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 55-55.
- Liedvogel, M, Haesler, E & Anderson, K 2013, 'Who will be running your practice in 10 years? Supporting GP registrars' awareness and knowledge of practice ownership', Australian Family Physician, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 333-336.
- Sturgiss, E, Anderson, K, Liedvogel, M et al 2013, 'To own or not to own How can we best educate general practice registrars about practice ownership?', Australian Family Physician, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 503-506.
- Thomson, J, Anderson, K, Mara, P et al 2011, 'Supervision - growing and building a sustainable general practice supervisor system', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 194, no. 11, pp. S101-S104.
- Stevenson, A, Phillips, C & Anderson, K 2011, 'Resilience among doctors who work in challenging areas: a qualitative study', British Journal of General Practice, vol. 61, no. 588, pp. e404-10.
- Thomson, J, Glasson, B, Anderson, K et al. 2009, 'GP interest in teaching junior doctors: Does practice location, size and infrastructure matter?', Australian Family Physician, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 1000 - 1002.
- Anderson, K & Thomson, J 2009, 'Vertical integration: Reducing the load on GP teachers', Australian Family Physician, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 907 - 910.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Academic Registrar - Seren Ovington (Primary Investigator)
- Supervisor and training Practice Audit, Development andEvaluation (SPADE) (Secondary Investigator)
- Absolute Risk Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (Secondary Investigator)
- Academic Registrar - Bosco Wu (Primary Investigator)
- Working together - Clinical supervision in Rural SE NSW (Secondary Investigator)
- Academic Registrar Posts - Janine Rowse & Rebecca Kathage (Primary Investigator)
- Academic registrar post - Practice management research (Primary Investigator)
- Enhancing vertically integrated general practice education through understanding the learner's perspective (Primary Investigator)
- Registrar Educational needs for Practice Management (Primary Investigator)
- Interprofessional Working within General Practice (Secondary Investigator)
- Motivating GPs to Teach (Secondary Investigator)
- GP Registrar Academic Post - Motivation and sustainability of medical practice in environments of social disadvantage (Primary Investigator)
