Rate My Professor Susan Waller

At Monash University from 2014 to 2020, Waller was Senior Lecturer in Interprofessional Education and Rural Nursing and Allied Health Lead at the Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health, coordinating interprofessional programs across the School of Rural Health and Gippsland health services. She served on the leadership team, as Director of the Australian Rural Health Education Network, and Acting Director of the Department. Currently, she is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, co-coordinating clinical skills courses and leading the MD mentoring program. Her research focuses on interprofessional education and collaborative practice, rural health workforce, clinical supervision, and simulation, contributing to projects like the Nursing and Allied Health Graduate Outcomes Tracking study. Key publications include 'Going beyond competencies: Building blocks for a patient- and population-centered medical curriculum' (Medical Teacher, 2024), 'It’s more than just a rural aP shortage' (Rural and Remote Health, 2024), 'Developing a Novel Health Interprofessional Education Curriculum' (2023), and 'Interprofessional education in health professions education programmes in the Arab world: A scoping review protocol' (BMJ Open, 2022). She has held roles such as Co-Chair of Gippsland Allied Health Leaders and member of various taskforces on interprofessional frameworks and accreditation.