Rate My Professor Kelby Smith-Han

Currently, Dr. Smith-Han contributes to teaching in the Humanities in Health and Medicine major and the postgraduate Certificate, Diploma, and Master courses in health professions education at UWA. His research interests focus on student learning development, including professional identity, transformational learning, professionalism, health humanities, and threshold concepts; the health and wellbeing of health professional students; and academic staff development via metacognition strategies for teachers. Key publications include "Conceptualising wellbeing among health-care workers during the Covid-19 pandemic" (Health, 2025, with McHugh, Trotman, and Nicholson), "Enhancing capabilities and careers in Health Professions Education - An impact evaluation" (2025), "Using Health Humanities in Health Professions Education" (2025), "Reasons for why Medical Students Prefer Specific Sleep Management Strategies" (Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 2024), and "How educators can preserve empathetic, human, health care in an increasingly technological age: Using arts and humanities in health professional education. Workshop" (2024, with Darbyshire). He has produced 40 research outputs in total. Dr. Smith-Han has earned major awards such as the UWA Excellence in Teaching Award for a Program that Enhances Learning (shared with Carr, Evans, and Bartle, 2025), School of Allied Health Teaching Excellence Award - Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2024), School of Allied Health Excellence in Teaching Award for a Program that Enhances Learning (shared, 2024), Associate Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (2023), and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2023).