Rate My Professor Shane Pritchard

Dr. Shane Pritchard is an Adjunct Lecturer in Physiotherapy at Monash University in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, appointed in July 2021. Previously, he served as Lecturer and Teaching Associate in Physiotherapy within the School of Primary and Allied Health Care since 2017. Holding a Bachelor of Physiotherapy and a PhD from Monash University completed in 2020, his doctoral research focused on innovative simulation-based education approaches for physiotherapy students. Pritchard is an experienced health professions educator and researcher specializing in simulation-based education, with expertise in health professions education, musculoskeletal physiotherapy, work-related injuries, occupational rehabilitation, and pain management. He currently leads the Pedagogical Effectiveness research network at the Monash Centre for Scholarship in Health Education and serves as Secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian Physiotherapy Association Educators committee. Clinically, he works as a Physiotherapist at Advance Healthcare Dandenong, delivering multidisciplinary pain management programs for clients with complex chronic pain. He is also Director of an organization supporting international physiotherapists in obtaining Australian registration. Pritchard has worked in metropolitan, regional, and remote areas across Victoria and the Northern Territory, pursuing further qualifications in pain and occupational health physiotherapy.

His research contributions include key publications such as 'Simulated Patients in Physical Therapy Education: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis' (2016), 'The pillars of well-constructed simulated patient programs: A qualitative study with experienced educators' (2017), 'Students as patients: A systematic review of peer simulation in health care professional education' (2020), and 'Simulation-based clinical assessment identifies threshold competence to practise physiotherapy in Australia: a crossover trial' (2022). He has co-authored chapters like 'Scope of contemporary simulated patient methodology' (2014) and 'Psychomotor Skill Development: Learning What and How To Do' (2020). Pritchard's work has garnered 391 citations. Notable awards include the Best Early Career Research Paper Award (2019), Best Early Career Research Paper Award for Educators (2019), an ANZAHPE grant (2021), and the ANZAHPE Associate Fellowship (2023). His efforts advance pedagogical practices in health education and clinical physiotherapy training.