Adjunct Associate Professor Claire Harrison
MB BCh, BAO, BMedSci, MRCSI, FRACGP
Telephone: + 61 3 9902 4450
Email: claire.harrison@monash.edu
Profile
Associate Professor Claire Harrison is an academic General Practitioner. She graduated from University College Cork, Ireland in 1999 (MB BCh BAO BMedSci). She was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland in 2002, Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (Merit) in 2006 and obtained Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 2008.
Claire has obtained the Essential Skills in Medical Education and Research, Essential Skills in Medical Education certificates, and on completion of the ESME Leadership Online Course, the ESME Certificate in Medical Education, all of which were awarded by the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).
Prior to immigrating to Australia, Claire underwent hospital training in Ireland and General Practitioner training in Edinburgh, Scotland. She worked both as a General Practitioner and Forensic Medical Examiner in Edinburgh. She immigrated to Australia in October 2008 to work as a General Practitioner. In 2010 Claire joined the staff at Griffith University School of Medicine, initially working as a facilitator for the clinical skills workshops for Years 1 and 2. She was appointed to the role of Academic Manager (Course Convenor) Years 3 and 4 in May 2011, a position which she held until May 2014. Whilst working at Griffith University, Claire received a Health Excellence Award (in recognition of outstanding contributions to the curriculum, assessment and as lead of the group piloting the ASPIRE initiative, the latter developed by AMEE). In addition, Claire received awards from the graduating cohort of medical students in 2012, 2013 and 2014 in recognition of her role as course convenor.
Claire moved to Monash University in May 2014 where she became Curriculum and Assessment Lead of the General Practice program. In 2015, she received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2016, a Monash University-OLT Teaching Innovation and Impact award and in 2018, an award from the School of Medicine (In recognition of Excellence and Innovation in General Practice Teaching and Assessment). She chairs the Year 4C Assessment Working Group and represents Monash University on the Australian Collaboration for Clinical Assessment in Medicine (ACCLAiM) project. Claire is the project lead of MEyeNET (innovative, online, clinical reasoning resource in ENT and ophthalmology) and in 2016 led a pilot of the Prescribing Skills Assessment (PSA), a teaching and assessment tool in medication safety, derived from the U.K.’s Prescribing Safety Assessment. Since this time, Claire has been working with the British Pharmacological Society, Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists, Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand and colleagues in medical schools across Australia and New Zealand, to implement the PSA on a nationwide basis. Claire is a member of the Medical Faculty for MedSkl: (international collaboration creating peer-reviewed, free and open access medical educational materials) and an affiliate of the Monash Centre for Scholarship in Health Education.
Claire continues to work clinically as a General Practitioner and served as a member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Expert Committee – Pre-Fellowship Education (2015-2018). She is also a student in the Master of Forensic Medicine, Monash University.
Research interests include measurement and improvement of competence in prescribing, ENT and ophthalmology, interprofessional learning between medical and interpreting students, in addition to how best to teach and master skills in clinical reasoning.