Gerry Corrigan

Leadership

Associate Professor Gerry Corrigan

BA, Dip.Ed., PhD

Accreditation / Associate Professor in Medicine
off campus
Off Campus, New South Wales

Gerry has published in a range of areas across both science and medical education and has been engaging in educational research since 1987. Gerry's research is focused on the nature of self-regulated learning, microanalysis using process mapping and clinical reasoning. Gerry has taught in the primary, secondary and tertiary spheres in science, science education and medical education.  He is currently an Associate Professor of Medical Education at ANU School of Medicine and Psychology and an Associate Professor in Medicine at the School of Rural Medicine, Charles Sturt University.

As Principal and Deputy Chair, Governing Council of the Australian School of Accounting, Gerry successfully led the registration and accreditation of a new higher education institute with TEQSA. As Associate Dean (Medical Education) and Head of the Medical Education Unit, Gerry contributed to and coordinated successful re-accreditation submissions with the Australian Medical Council. Along with two colleagues, Gerry received a Carrick Award for University Teaching (now Australian University Awards) in the category Programs that Enhance Learning (Assessment and Feedback), 2006, entitled ‘You know your graduates are cognitively competent but are they professionally capable?’

Current responsibilities include coordinating the School of Rural Medicine’s re-accreditation response to the Australian Medical Council.

Professional Memberships

  • Australian and New Zealand Association of Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE)
  • Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD)

Research interests:

  1. Microanalysis of learning using process mapping.
  2. Mapping decision-making in organisations, corporate boards and elite sport.
  3. Industry applications and commercialisation of educational research.
  4. The development and implementation of open-ended, self-regulated and flexible learning environments.

Current projects:

  1. What process mapping reveals about how students engage with clinical reasoning in problem-based learning. (ANU)
  2. Using process mapping to unpack the decisions learners make about clinical reasoning during a clinical simulation tutorial. (ANU)
  3. Using process mapping to explore the clinical and non-clinical (learning) decision-making of students when completing an optometry clinical reasoning assessment task. (Deakin-ANU)

Planned/Open projects:

  1. Longitudinal mapping of learning in problem-based learning (multiple-year longitudinal study).

Collaboration in problem-based learning.