Rate My Professor Anthony Ali

Anthony Ali is a Senior Professional Practice Fellow and Education Adviser in the Office of the Dean (Christchurch), Faculty of Medicine, University of Otago, part of the Health Sciences Division. His qualifications include a BSc, MEd, and DipMRT(Tor). In this role, he provides expert advice and support for curriculum development and evaluation, student assessment programmes and instruments, designs and organizes staff development activities, and oversees teaching evaluations within the Education Development and Staff Support Unit at the University of Otago, Christchurch. His expertise in health professional education is highlighted in the university's Health Sciences Staff Expertise Database.

Ali's research focuses on health professional education, encompassing assessment, evaluation, staff development, academic motivation, psychological resilience, professionalism, and learning environment disruptions. Key co-authored publications include: "Beyond the ‘tick-box’: Redesigning a course review process that fosters dialogue and exchange of ideas" (Beckingsale, Ali, & Beckert, 2025, Medical Education); "Capturing the invisible: Non-institutional technologies in undergraduate learning within three New Zealand universities" (Liu et al., 2023, The Internet and Higher Education); "Revealing the impact of the hidden curriculum on faculty teaching: A qualitative study" (Lee et al., 2023, Medical Education); "MUSIC® for Medical Students: Confirming the Reliability and Validity of a Multi-Factorial Measure of Academic Motivation for Medical Education" (Gladman, Gallagher, & Ali, 2020, Teaching and Learning in Medicine); "Towards a Definition of Distinction in Professionalism" (Ali et al., 2019); "Predictors of psychological resilience amongst medical students following major earthquakes" (2016, New Zealand Medical Journal); "Psychological impact of the Canterbury earthquakes on university staff" (2016); "The impact of major earthquakes on the psychological functioning of medical students" (2014); "Joining the dots: Conditional pass and programmatic assessment enhances recognition of problems with professionalism" (2011, BMC Medical Education); and "Rad-Path: integrated anatomical pathology and radiology undergraduate tutorials" (2009, Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences). With over 250 citations from 13 publications, his scholarship influences resilience and innovative assessment in medical education. He contributes to conferences such as AMEE and ANZAHPE.