Rate My Professor Jim Ross

Dr Jim Ross is a Senior Lecturer in General Practice and Rural Health in the Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, Dunedin School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences Division, University of Otago. A former rural general practitioner, Ross now teaches undergraduate medical students in general practice and rural health. His academic interests center on primary healthcare, medical education, social science intersections, conversation analysis of health encounters, rural health, health professional education, mental health from a community perspective, obesity management, and applying social science methodologies to healthcare.

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.