Rate My Professor Mark Smith

At the University of Otago, Smith contributes to teaching rural cardiorespiratory and respiratory medicine as part of the Rural Postgraduate Programme faculty. His academic output includes co-authorship of 'New Zealand postgraduate medical training by distance for Pacific Island country-based general practitioners: a qualitative study' published in the Journal of Primary Health Care (2022, with Blattner et al.) and 'Doing without the residential component of a blended postgraduate rural medical programme during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand: Student perspectives' in Education for Primary Care (2022, with Blattner, Miller, and Lander). He delivered a verbal presentation titled 'Doing without the in-person component of a blended postgraduate rural medical programme during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic: Rural trainee perspectives' at the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners Conference in Wellington (2021, with Blattner). Additionally, he co-presented 'Rural Clinical Training Forum: Connecting the Pipeline' at the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network and Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand National Rural Health Conference in Rotorua (2015, with Walters et al.). Smith's work advances rural healthcare training and education in New Zealand and the Pacific region.