Rate My Professor Shane Pritchard

Dr. Shane Pritchard is an Adjunct Lecturer in Physiotherapy at Monash University in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, appointed in July 2021. Previously, he served as Lecturer and Teaching Associate in Physiotherapy within the School of Primary and Allied Health Care since 2017. Holding a Bachelor of Physiotherapy and a PhD from Monash University completed in 2020, his doctoral research focused on innovative simulation-based education approaches for physiotherapy students. Pritchard is an experienced health professions educator and researcher specializing in simulation-based education, with expertise in health professions education, musculoskeletal physiotherapy, work-related injuries, occupational rehabilitation, and pain management. He currently leads the Pedagogical Effectiveness research network at the Monash Centre for Scholarship in Health Education and serves as Secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian Physiotherapy Association Educators committee. Clinically, he works as a Physiotherapist at Advance Healthcare Dandenong, delivering multidisciplinary pain management programs for clients with complex chronic pain. He is also Director of an organization supporting international physiotherapists in obtaining Australian registration. Pritchard has worked in metropolitan, regional, and remote areas across Victoria and the Northern Territory, pursuing further qualifications in pain and occupational health physiotherapy.