Rate My Professor Ohad Dar

Dr Dar's academic interests encompass medical education through simulation, staff and patient safety in infectious disease scenarios, and emergency department overcrowding and capacity visualization. Key publications include 'Using Systems Thinking to Identify Staff and Patient Safety Issues in Infectious Disease Simulation Scenarios' (Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 2021), co-authored with Raymond Phang, Sierra Beck, Joanne Robertson-Smith, Megan Anakin, and others; 'A novel tool to assess and communicate overcrowding and access block in the emergency department' (Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2017), with Jacques Loubser; and 'Visualising Emergency Department Capacity in an Australasian Tertiary Hospital' (Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2017). His innovative teaching methods earned him the Medical Education Unit Award for Innovation in Teaching in 2024 under the Advanced Learning in Medicine Teaching Awards. Additionally, in 2021, he shared the Southern District Health Board and Otago Medical School Best Collaboration Award with Dr Megan Anakin, Dr Sierra Beck, and Joanne Robertson-Smith. Dr Dar's work advances high-fidelity simulation training to improve emergency response capabilities.