Learning Together, Teaching Together
Plenary sessions
| 9.00 – 9.30 | Conference registration The Forum, Melbourne Connect (The Superfloor, 700 Swanston St, Carlton) | |||
| 9.30 – 9.40 | Welcome Professor Mike McGuckin, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Professor Elizabeth Molloy, Deputy Dean Education, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health SciencesThe Forum, Melbourne Connect (The Superfloor, 700 Swanston St, Carlton) | |||
| 9.40 – 10.40 | Keynote: Illuminating journeys: Navigating pathways in the scholarship of teaching and learning Chair: Dr Justin Bilszta, Senior Lecturer in Medical Education. Dept of Medical Education, The University of Melbourne. (Full speaker details) The Forum, Melbourne Connect (The Superfloor, 700 Swanston St, Carlton) Learn together with two international leaders in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Professor Denise Stockley and Assistant Professor Melanie (Mel) Hamilton. In this special paired keynote, Denise and Mel will shine light on selected moments from their journeys in SoTL. These are journeys which began in their respective disciplines of educational psychology and nursing and have since expanded to include interdisciplinary collaborations, development of a master's and PhD program in SoTL, development of a national centre for SoTL, leadership of national and international societies for SoTL. A guiding passion of Denise and Mel has been that of deprivatising and demystifying the scholarship of teaching and learning. Denise and Mel will illuminate some of the many ways they have elevated and supported SoTL as a central priority for university educators, researchers, students, leaders and the communities with whom they engage. Denise and Mel’s good friend, Dr Justin Bilszta, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medical Education, will then join the discussion and extend conversation about how we can best support engagement in SoTL to inform impacts from the most proximate and personal to those that cross disciplines, institutions and nations. | |||
| 10.40 – 11.00 | Morning tea The Lab and Launch Pad, Melbourne Connect | |||
Concurrent sessions: morning
Lived experience co-design | Student experience and person-centred care | Learning in communities | Innovative learning and assessment | Interprofessional education and feedback workshops | Simulation | |
11.00 – 11.20 | Workshop | Learning together: Discover how a creative workshop is transforming person-centred care for students | Learning together in place: Rural healthcare's collaborative advantage | Incorporating student voice into the creation of AI-driven virtual patients | Workshop | The great escape: The future of healthcare – digital health escape room simulations |
11.20 –11.40 | Session continues | Trauma informed clinical practice skill discovery | Generative AI can explain a synapse - can it replace one? Choosing between deep learning and shallow learning | Interprofessional education initiatives to teach advocacy in health professions programs: a narrative review | Session continues Workshop | Exploring the XR enhanced OSCE: Live demonstration |
11.40 – 12.00 | Session continues | Amplifying awareness: A pilot of audiology students teaching oral health students about hearing loss | Structured interdisciplinary clinical placements abroad: reflections on healthcare education | Integrated learning: co-teaching clinical skills in speech pathology | Session continues | Bringing audiology students together to learn as near-peers in online patient simulations |
Concurrent sessions: afternoon
Transforming performance anxiety into clinical excellence | Lightning talks and near peer learning | Wellbeing | Inclusive education and assessment | Student experience; lived experience | Simulation | |
12.00 – 12.20 | Workshop | Lightning talks | Implementing a new authentic group assessment to foster peer connection and collaborative learning | Embedding viva voce into ePortfolio assessment to foster authentic and inclusive assessment design | QILT unpacked: What contributes to first year students’ overall experience? | AI-powered patient simulation: advancing education in the digital era |
12.20 – 12.40 | Session continues | Workshop | Insights from a rural interprofessional learning experience-discussing mental health in older adults | DASH: The creation of a bespoke assessment platform at the Melbourne Dental School | Conversations that matter: Learning and teaching with lived experience | Introducing the Validitron Clinical Simulation Lab for digital health: Interactive tour and demonstration |
12.40 – 1.00 | Session continues | Workshop | Building solid ground: A framework for postgraduate mental health and wellbeing | Redefining inherent requirements: a cornerstone for inclusive health professional education | Learning together to address weight stigma: a global classroom initiative in physiotherapy education |
Lunch |
27 October – 28 October 2025, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
Contacts: Tim Beaumont | timothy.beaumont@unimelb.edu.au Dr Abi Brooker | brookera@unimelb.edu.au