The “ANZAHPE Way”: Nurturing health professionals, educators, learners and researchers in the next 50 years: The ‘ANZAHPE Way’: Nurturing health professional educators,

Julie Katherine Ash; Megan Anakin; Benedict Canny; Charlotte  Denniston; Elizabeth Molloy; Gary Rogers; Jill Romeo; Joy Rudland; Adrian Schoo; Joanna Tai; Anna Vnuk

doi:10.11157/fohpe.v24i2.715

Authors

Julie Katherine Ash University of Adelaide, Adelaide Rural Clinical School https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1569-6464
Megan Anakin Education Unit, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ben Canny Discipline of Medical Studies, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Charlotte Denniston Department of Medical Education/Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Elizabeth Molloy Department of Medical Education/Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Gary Rogers School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
Jill Romeo The Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators
Joy Rudland Education Unit, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
Adrian Schoo Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators
Joanna Tai Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Anna Vnuk College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11157/fohpe.v24i2.715

Keywords:

health professional education, nurturning, community of practice, social learning, professional development, association, organisational culture, sustainability

Abstract

In this paper, we argue that Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE) is a nurturing organisation and envision what cultivating this means for its future. We use communities of practice and social learning to examine ANZAHPE’s evolution as a nurturing association. We describe two ANZAHPE innovations, the unique conference presentation format called the “personally arranged learning session”, or “PeArLS”, and a new professional development program called “ANZAHPE Online”. We then reflect on how these function as nurturing structures in which members embody ANZAHPE’s philosophy of community learning. From these examples, we draw out future directions for the association.

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