Rate My Professor Sam Murton

Murton's career includes roles as Medical Educator in the Wellington General Practice Education Programme since 2007, National Clinical Lead for first-year GPEP and the Postgraduate Rural General Practice programme since 2009, and the first Medical Director of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners from 2012. She was elected President of the College in 2018. Her research interests encompass medical education, patient communication, AI scribes in primary care consultations, bullying in the general practitioner workforce, medication review and deprescribing, and COVID-19 impacts on primary care. Key publications include 'Using AI scribes in New Zealand primary care consultations: an exploratory survey' (Ballantyne et al., 2025, Journal of Primary Health Care), 'Bullying in the New Zealand general practitioner workforce' (2021), 'Prescribing deprescribing for polypharmacy in Aotearoa New Zealand: experiences of a medication review activity in final year medical students' (2024), and 'Art in the art of medicine: The use of drawing by health practitioners for explanation during patient consultations' (2025). She received the Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in 2021 for services to medical education, particularly general practice, and the Distinguished Fellowship of RNZCGP in 2016.