Rate My Professor Alex Salkeld

Dr. Alex Salkeld serves as an Assistant Research Fellow at the Otago Medical School, University of Otago. He joined the Otago team in this role around Autumn 2020, as noted in the Medinews Autumn 2020 publication from the Otago Medical School. In his position, Dr. Salkeld is a key member of the University of Otago team within the New Zealand Medical Schools Outcomes Database and Longitudinal Tracking (NZMSOD) Steering Group. He works alongside Professor Tim Wilkinson, Associate Professor Joy Rudland, and Dr. Katelyn Costello, collaborating with colleagues from the University of Auckland and the Ministry of Health, including Professor Phillippa Poole, Professor Warwick Bagg, Dr. Charlotte Connell, Antonia Verstappen, Emmanuel Jo, and Amy Wilson. The NZMSOD project, established in 2005 by Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand, longitudinally tracks medical students and graduates in New Zealand to inform medical workforce planning and policy. It follows commencing students from 2007 onwards, graduates from 2012, and postgraduates at 1, 3, 5, and 8 years post-graduation, collecting data on demographics, career intentions, clinical placements, and workforce trajectories.

Dr. Salkeld contributes to the production of national reports under the project, governed by a 2019 Memorandum of Understanding between the universities and the Ministry of Health. These include reports on students commencing medical school in New Zealand for periods such as 2013–2015, 2015–2019, and 2019–2023; students graduating medical school in 2012–2014, 2013–2017, and 2016–2020; doctors 1 year post-graduation in 2011–2015 and 2014–2018; 3 years post-graduation in 2012–2016 and 2011–2019; 5 years in 2011–2019; and 8 years in 2011–2015. He is a co-author on the peer-reviewed article 'Sample representativeness and influence of attrition on longitudinal data collected as part of a national medical career tracking project' by Connell CJW, Salkeld AJ, Wells C, Verstappen AC, Poole P, Wilkinson TJ, and Bagg W, published in BMC Medical Education on 25 July 2023. Dr. Salkeld has also been acknowledged for his assistance in research such as 'Predictors of rural medical practice in Aotearoa New Zealand: a national outcomes prospective cohort study' by Costello K et al., published in BMJ Open in 2026, and various other NZMSOD-related outputs.