Paula Heggarty

A/Prof Paula Heggarty is the Principal Medical Educator for the JCU GP Training program and also the assessment coordinator for Year 4 in the College of Medicine and Dentistry.

She holds responsibility for strategic leadership of the JCU GP education program and curriculum development. She is the chair of the Education Committee and Co-Chair of the Training Assistance and Monitoring Committee for JCU GP Training.

Her main interest is development of learning and teaching resources including online learning modules and systems within the GP training program. Clinical reasoning, general practice simulation clinics and formative assessment are other areas of special focus. Her current research interests include evaluation of workbased assessment in medical education and evaluation of patient safety strategies in GP training.

She was awarded a JCU and a National award from the Office of Learning and teaching in 2014 for Outstanding Contribution to student learning.

She also focuses to strengthen collaboration within General Practice including Primary Health Networks, the RACGP, and ACRRM.

Paula remains a clinician and works as a GP in Townsville.