Rate My Professor Lyndal Parker-Newlyn

Associate Professor Parker-Newlyn joined the University of Wollongong in 2006, contributing to curriculum design and delivery, including Case Based Learning activities and core clinical presentation blueprints. Her academic interests center on medical education, student selection and assessment, approaches to learning, curriculum development, and rural medical workforce distribution. Key publications include "The Australian health workforce: Disproportionate shortfalls in small rural towns" (2024), "Medical school admission processes to target rural applicants: an international scoping review and mapping of Australian practices" (2025), "A comparison of rural and regional work locations and speciality choices between graduates from the University of Wollongong and all Australian medical schools using the Medical Schools Outcomes Database" (2023), "Approaches to learning: does medical school attract students with the motivation to go deeper?" (2020), and her doctoral thesis "Choosing tomorrow's rural doctors: An analysis of medical student selection in an Australian rural context." Her leadership supports the production of graduates more likely to work in rural and regional areas and pursue general practice careers.