Rate My Professor Peter Radue

Dr Peter Radue serves as a Professional Practice Fellow and Clinical Skills Director in the Dunedin Advanced Learning in Medicine at the University of Otago's Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice & Rural Health, within the Faculty of Medicine. He is also a Senior Teaching Fellow. Radue holds the degrees MB BCh from the University of the Witwatersrand and PGDipClinEd from the University of Auckland, along with the professional qualification FRNZCGP, Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. His teaching responsibilities encompass undergraduate medical education in clinical skills, urban general practice, rural health, interprofessional education, and continuing medical education for general practitioners. Radue maintains an active clinical role as a General Practitioner.

Radue's research specializations include learning and teaching clinical reasoning, with contributions to medical humanities and primary care discussions on death and longevity. Key publications feature 'Exploring the value of social network ‘care maps’ in the provision of long-term conditions care' (Chronic Illness, 2021, co-authored with J. Young et al.), 'Cracking open death: death conversations in primary care' (Journal of Primary Health Care, 2016, with R. Llewellyn et al.), 'Employing imaginative rationality: using metaphor when discussing death' (Medical Humanities, 2017), 'Living into death: a case for an iterative, fortified and cross-sector approach to advance care planning' (Anthropology & Medicine, 2017), 'The healthy lifestyle in longevity narratives' (Social Theory & Health, 2018, with C. Jaye et al.), and 'Communities of clinical practice in action: Doing whatever it takes' (Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2018). Additional works cover medical student experiences of racism and sexism on placements (2020) and virtual simulation during COVID-19 lockdown (AMEE Proceedings, 2021). He has received major teaching awards, including the Department of General Practice and Rural Health Teaching Award (2022) and the Teaching Award in Advanced Learning in Medicine of the MB ChB Programme (2020). Radue holds committee roles in the Dunedin Medical Campus Curriculum Subcommittee, DMC Vertical Modules and Whole Class Learning Oversight Committee, Clinical Skills Diagnostics and Therapeutics Subcommittee, and Otago Simulation Interest Group, influencing medical education at Otago.