Rate My Professor Donald Munro

Donald Munro is a Conjoint Associate Professor and Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences, part of the College of Engineering, Science and Environment, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He obtained his PhD from the University of London in 1973. His career includes serving as Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Zimbabwe from January 1970 to November 1984, where it was previously known as University College of Rhodesia and then University of Rhodesia. From November 1984 to January 2016, he was Senior Lecturer and Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Newcastle. Since 2012, he has maintained an affiliation with Hull York Medical School at the University of York, United Kingdom, related to longitudinal studies of medical students assessed using the Personal Qualities Assessment non-cognitive tests.

Munro's research specializations encompass individual differences, psychometrics, personality assessment, interpersonal relationships, motivational psychology, clinical examination, organizational psychology, counseling, psychological assessment, recruitment and selection, medical education, and assessment and measurement. He has contributed to the development of the Personal Qualities Assessment, a tool employed in medical student selection. Notable publications include 'Is the UCAT appropriate for selecting undergraduate medical students?' (2021), 'Kiasuism across Cultures: Singapore and Australia' (2020), 'In-course and career outcomes predicted by medical school selection procedures based on personal qualities' (2020), 'Why is it so hard to consider personal qualities when selecting medical students?' (2019), 'Reliability of personality and values tests: The effects of “high stakes” selection conditions, and of four years in medical school' (2019), 'Have we got the selection process right? The validity of selection tools for predicting academic performance in the first year of undergraduate medicine' (2017), 'Openness and Intellect: An analysis of the motivational constructs underlying two aspects of personality' (2016), and the edited volume 'Motivation and Culture' (1997). His 67 publications have accumulated 1,233 citations.