Associate Professor Wendy Hu

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Selected Publications
• Qualifications and Memberships 
• Contact Details

Biograph

Wendy graduated with the University Medal in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1986 and went on to train in General Practice with a special interest in child health. She has been associated with the Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW) since 1989, in clinical, research and administrative roles,  and most recently as the Associate Director of Education at CHW. In this role she oversaw the strategic development of clinical and staff education, and operational management of the Education Centre and the first paediatric simulation centre in Australasia. Prior to this Wendy was Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at the University of Sydney medical school, working at Westmead Clinical School and the Office of Medical Education on building clinical teaching, core curriculum and the online curriculum map, Compass.

Wendy’s research experience includes commissioned evaluations of primary health care policy and clinical leadership programs, which followed her Masters of Health Administration (UNSW) in 2000. She completed her PhD (USyd), supported by an NHMRC Scholarship, in 2007, investigating clinician and consumer understandings of medical risk and uncertainty. This led to 10 peer reviewed papers and a book chapter in Australian and international publications.

Since starting at the School of Medicine in 2010, Wendy has been developing and implementing the General Practice and community based teaching and research components of the MBBS curriculum. She has initiated various interprofessional and cross-institutional research collaborations, primarily in health professional education (see below) and is supervising a new PhD candidate in the General Practice Unit. In 2011, Wendy was appointed Associate Head of School (Learning and Teaching), which has a School wide scope in the quality improvement of learning and teaching.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

• Curriculum design
• Quality improvement of health professional education
• Medical risk and uncertainty
• Doctor-patient and organisational communication
• Lay experiences of illness and healthcare
• Qualitative research
• Interdisciplinary research
• Participatory research

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Grants / Current Project

PhD Supervisor

Angela Hsiao: "A Better Diabetes Education Program for the Australian-Chinese Community". School of Medicine, UWS

Dr Tony Skapetis: “Development, implementation and evaluation of an interprofessional emergency dental education program for emergency medical teams.” University of Sydney

Convenor

“ICHER: Interprofessional Collaboration for Health Professional Educational Research” Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Midwifery, Health and Biomedical Science.

Chief Investigator

“Interprofessional Assessment of Clinical Skills: Comparing Expert Judgements from Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy”. 2010-2011, Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Midwifery, Health and Biomedical Science. Supported by UWS ECR Seed Grant.

“Medical Student Research Motivations and Aspirations”. School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Office of Medical Education, University of Sydney.

“Staff Impact of Providing Student Support” School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney and University of Melbourne

"Student, Supervisor and Staff knowledge and understanding of human research ethics", School of Medicine, UWS and Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong.

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Awards and Recognition

NHMRC Public Health Postgraduate Scholarship, 2003 – 2006
Australian Allergy Foundation Scholarship, 2003
2/5 Australian General Hospital Association Prize, 2002
Australian College of Health Service Executives Prize, 2000
John S Yu Scholarship, 2000
University Medal (MBBS),1986
Ian David Armfield Memorial Prize, 1985
Arthur Edward Mills Graduation Prize, 1985
Royal North Shore Hospital Medal, 1985
Royal North Shore Hospital Medal for Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1985
Graham Coupland Memorial Prize, 1985
G.S. Caird Scholarship No. 1, 1983
A.D. Gillies Memorial Prize, 1983
Parkinson Memorial Prize for Pathology, 1983
David Sugerman Prize No. 1, 1983
Frank Cotton Memorial Prize for Physiology, 1982

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Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Skapetis A, Gerzina T, Hu W. Can a four hour interactive workshop on the management of dental emergencies be effective in improving self reported levels of clinician proficiency? australasian Emergency Nursing Journal (in press).

Monrouxe L, Rees C, Hu W. “Differences in students’ discourses of professionalism: acting, representing, becoming” Medical Education 2011;45:585-602.

Skapetis A, Gerzina T, Hu W. “Management of dental emergencies by medical practitioners: recommendations for Australian education and training” Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2011 April;23(2):142-52

Nguyen M, Wainstein B, Hu W, Ziegler J; Parental satisfaction with oral peanut food challenges, Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, 2010;21:1119-1126

Lipworth WL, Davey HM, Carter SM, Hooker C, Hu W; Beliefs and beyond: what can we learn from qualitative studies of lay people’s understandings of cancer risk?, Health Expectations, published online: 26th May 2010. DOI 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00601.x

Kemp A, Hu W, Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis – dealing with uncertainty; Medical Journal of Australia, 2008;188:503-4.

Hu W, Grbich C, Kemp A, When doctors disagree: a qualitative study of doctors’ and parents’ views on the risks of childhood food allergy; Health Expectations, 2008; 11:208-219.

Hu W, Loblay R, Ziegler J, Kemp AS., Attributes and views of families with food allergic children recruited from allergy clinics and from a consumer organisation; Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, 2008; 19:264-9

Hu W, Grbich C, Kemp AS, Parental food allergy information needs: A qualitative study; Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2007;92:771-5

Hu W, Katelaris CH, Kemp AS, Recurrent egg allergy in adulthood; Allergy, 2007; 62:709-15

Powell-Davies G, Hu W, McDonald J, Furler J, Harris E and Harris M, Developments in Australian general practice 2000-2002: what did these contribute to a well functioning and comprehensive Primary Health Care System? Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2006; 3:1 doi:10.1186/1743-8462-3-1

Hu W, Kerridge I, Kemp A, Risk, rationality and regret: responding to the uncertainty of childhood food anaphylaxis; Medical Humanities 2005; 31:12-16.

Hu W, Kemp A.Managing childhood food allergies and anaphylaxis; Australian Family Physician 2005; 34:35-39.

Hu W, Kemp A, Kerridge I, Reducing the risks for food allergic children in schools and preschools;  Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2004; 40:672-673.

Hu W, Kemp A, Kerridge I, Can we risk it? Making clinical decisions when the stakes are high and the evidence unclear; British Medical Journal 2004;329:853-854.

BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Hu W and Grbich C, Student, Supervisor, Researcher, Researched: Relationships and the Qualitative Research Journey, in Qualitative Journeys: Student and Mentor Experiences with Research (Eds V Minichiello & J Kottler). Thousand Oaks, Sage Publishers, 2009.

Child Health: A Practical Manual for General Practice. Oates K, Currow K and Hu W. Sydney: Maclennan & Petty, 2001. ISBN 0 86433 154 1

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Qualifications and Memberships

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
Member, Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Education
Peer reviewer, BMJ, Australian Family Physician, Medical Education
Honorary Associate, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine UNSW
Prevocational Training Accreditation Surveyor, Clincial Education and Training Institute (NSW)
Invited Lecturer: HaNoi Medical University, Hoc Mai Foundation, University of Sydney

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