Personal profile
Research Biography
Passionate about improving healthcare education to prepare our future clinicians, with a focus on work-ready graduates who will be able to adapt to the challenges of healthcare in the coming years
Understand the pressures our junior and early career healthcare workforce face and want to ensure they can stretch themselves, have satisfying careers, and adapt to the changing needs of the population
Believe we have to ensure our students have realistic expectations and are excited about what their future career pathways could look like.
To achieve all this we need to invest in good governance around clinical training.
We need to support students and graduates across the training pipeline or continuum, and offer career choices that will keep them motivated and engaged.
As a firm believer in preventative healthcare, accept that there are challenges in adapting the current healthcare workforce models to meet future patient needs - but this has to be our priority. Keeping people well and out of hospital has to be an important focus in the future and we need to ensure our students and graduates are able to play a leadership role in this. They need to be good 'system navigators' so they can influence future research, healthcare policy development and resourcing at a local, national and global level.
Critical to ensuring we have a strong record for producing work-ready graduates is support for our academic, scientific and clinical staff who are the foundation for this success.
Achievements:
- Significant experience in supporting workplace based learning, particularly with clinical educators and supervisors, across the health system.
- Published extensively in the area of health professions education, supervised Masters and Ph.D. students, and continues to be actively involved nationally and internationally.
Completed Supervisions
- Medical Education (4)
Research Areas
- Public health
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 1 No Poverty
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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SDG 4 Quality Education
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Reviewing the standards for accreditation and assessment of specialist medical programs in Australia and Aotearoa
Jones, A., Jul 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation › peer-review
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“For a lot of people, this is their first job”: Exploring Intern Preparedness
Pearce, S., Jones, A. & Kumar, K., Jun 2023. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
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COVID-19 disruption can have a silver lining
Jones, A., Cominos, N., Campbell, N. & Rissel, C., Jul 2021, In: Management in Education. 35, 3, p. 149-152 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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Transitioning from university to postgraduate medical training: A narrative review of work readiness of medical graduates
Padley, J., Boyd, S., Jones, A. & Walters, L., Jun 2021, In: Health Science Reports. 4, 2, 9 p., e270.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Can the hidden curriculum impact on Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Practice? A systematic review of the literature.
Ryan, V., Gordon, S., Baker, N. & Jones, A., Jul 2020, Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators: ANZAHPE 2020 Vision for Learning Cultures Conference. Melbourne: Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators, p. 95-95 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review