Rate My Professor Jim Ross

Ross has published extensively on healthcare communication, child health interventions, rural medical training, and patient-centered care. Key publications include "Nurse and parent partnership during children’s vaccinations: A conversation analysis" (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2009); "Motivational interviewing for screening and feedback and encouraging lifestyle changes to reduce relative weight in 4-8 year old children: design of the MInT study" (BMC Public Health, 2010); "Using motivational interviewing for weight feedback to parents of young children" (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2014); "Does the positive influence of an undergraduate rural placement persist into postgraduate years?" (Rural and Remote Health, 2012); "The safe and effective clinical outcomes (SECO) clinic: learning responsibility for patient care through simulation" (Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2013); "An exercise to map patient-centred care networks" (The Clinical Teacher, 2016); "Parental reactions to weight screening in young children: a randomized controlled trial" (Pediatric Obesity, 2018); and "Continuity of care in New Zealand primary health services" (The New Zealand Medical Journal, 2011). In 2023, he was part of the Department of General Practice and Rural Health team awarded Teaching Excellence Awards. His work also includes health services research on conversation analysis in general practice.