Rate My Professor Tarun Sen Gupta

Professor Tarun Sen Gupta serves as Professor of Health Professional Education and Head of the Townsville Clinical School within the College of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University. He holds the qualifications MBBS, FRACGP, FACRRM, and PhD. With a career in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education spanning since 1993, Sen Gupta was a foundation staff member of the James Cook University School of Medicine, established in 2000. His professional experience includes solo remote practice, and he continues to work as a General Practitioner. In leadership roles, he acts as Training Adviser for the Queensland Health Rural Generalist Pathway, served as Past-President of the Rural Doctors Association of Queensland, and currently chairs the assessment committee of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. These positions underscore his commitment to enhancing rural and remote medical training and practice.

Sen Gupta's research specializations include rural medical education, workforce development in rural and remote areas, professional identity development among health students, cultural safety in health consultations, de-implementation of low-value care, leadership in medical education, small group teaching, community-based education, and assessment. He supervises doctoral students on topics such as outcomes assessments in veterinary education, cultural capability in primary care, socially accountable selection of Pacific doctors, de-implementation in emergency departments, and pharmacist-led prescribing education. With 67 publications to his name and over 2,200 citations, key works include 'Cultural safety in telehealth consultations with Indigenous people: A scoping review of global literature' (2025, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare), 'Drivers of low-value diagnostic tests in emergency medicine practice: a qualitative descriptive study' (2025, Emergency Medicine Journal), 'Do educational interventions improve prescribing skills of medical students compared to no additional learning? A systematic review' (2023, Medical Teacher), 'Career choices of the first seven cohorts of JCU MBBS graduates: a longitudinal study' (2019, Rural and Remote Health), and 'Predictors of rural practice location for James Cook University medical graduates: a 10-year retrospective cohort study' (2014, Australian Journal of Rural Health). His contributions have advanced JCU's decentralized model, significantly impacting rural health workforce outcomes in northern Australia.