Associate Professor Koshila Kumar
Academic Level D
College of Medicine and Public Health
Koshila is committed to health workforce capacity building in teaching and learning, and educational scholarship.
She is the Teaching Program Director - Clinical Teaching program, Course Coordinator of the postgraduate programs in clinical education in the College of Medicine and Public Health, and the co-chair of the College of Medicine and Public Health Learning and Teaching Academy.
Koshila is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (UK) and a Fellow of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators.
PhD, The University of Sydney
Master of Arts (Education) (Hons), The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Bachelor of Arts (Educational Psychology), The University of Auckland, New Zealand
- 2022: Teaching Innovation & Scholarship Award, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
- 2022: Senior Fellow, Advance Higher Education
- 2019: Fellow, Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE)
- 2016: Choice Critics Award for exceptional contribution as a peer reviewer, Medical Education
- 2016: Vice Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching (Team Award-Master of Clinical Education), Flinders University
- 2015: Executive Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Team Award-Master of Clinical Education), Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University
- 2010 - 2012: University of Sydney Postgraduate Scholarship
- Capacity building/faculty development
- Curriculum design and renewal
- Educational quality assurance and improvement
Koshila has a broad range of teaching expertise including:
- Curriculum and pedagogy in health and clinical education
- Research methods in health and clinical education
- Educational theory
- Educational leadership
- Interprofessional learning and education
- 2017 - 2023: Board member Australia and New Zealand Association of Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE), as Vice President (2021-2023) and Membership Secretary (2017-2020).
- 2017 -2021: Associate Editor, BMC Medical Education
- Peer reviewer for:
- Medical Education (since 2008)
- Focus on Health Professions Education (since 2009)
- Australian Journal of Rural Health (since 2011)
- Qualitative Health Research (since 2012)
- Teaching and Learning in Medicine (since 2012)
- International Journal for Qualitative Methods (since 2013)
- Journal of Interprofessional Care (since 2014)
- BMC Medical Education (since 2015)
- Advances in Health Sciences Education (since 2017)
- The Asia Pacific Scholar (since 2018)
- Health/Medical education
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