Rate My Professor Lyn Gum

Dr Lyn Gum is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Adelaide University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health. She has over 30 years of experience as a clinical nurse and midwife, including 14 years as a rural nurse/midwife. Lyn earned her PhD from Flinders University in 2017, which explored interprofessional education and collaborative practice in rural settings in South Australia. Her academic career includes previous roles as Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia from 2022 to 2025 and Lecturer at Flinders University from 2017 to 2022. She currently serves as Program Coordinator for the Bachelor of Nursing theory courses and Program Director for Postgraduate Midwifery, with teaching interests spanning clinical education, medical education, midwifery education, and nursing education. Lyn advocates for supportive learning environments that are engaging and respectful to all students.

Lyn's research interests include interprofessional learning, online learning, professional use of social media, generative artificial intelligence, rural workforce and health care, simulation learning and debriefing, communities of practice, collaborative practice and teamwork, qualitative research, and patient safety. Her key publications encompass 'Sleep of Nurses: A Comprehensive Scoping Review' (2024, Journal of Advanced Nursing), 'Digital professionalism in preregistration nursing and midwifery students: A scoping review' (2024, Nurse Education in Practice), 'Educating for interprofessional practice: moving from knowing to being, is it the final piece of the puzzle?' (2017, BMC Medical Education), 'Exploring interprofessional education and collaborative practice in Australian rural health services' (2020, Journal of Interprofessional Care), and 'Sim TRACT™: A Reflective Conceptual Framework for Simulation Debriefing' (2011, Journal of Transformative Education). She has received notable awards, including the UniSA Team Teaching and Learning Development Grant in 2025 for enhancing e-professionalism, Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2016 for the Master of Clinical Education (team award), and ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2011 for interprofessional learning. Lyn is an active contributor to the Australasian Interprofessional Practice and Education Network (AIPPEN), Australian College of Nursing (ACN), and Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE).