MsJane Duffy

• Advancing the teaching and assessment of professionalism in health professions education.
• Examining how health law is taught within pre-registration health professional programs to inform curriculum innovation.
• Investigating health workforce sustainability, with a particular focus on strategies to retain optometrists in underserved and rural communities.

Recent peer-reviewed abstract presentations - international

Cochrane A & Duffy, JF,  ‘Building professionalism in tomorrow’s health practitioners – a practical approach for creating a curriculum framework’ (onsite poster), Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Singapore, 6-9 July 2029

Duffy, JF,  ‘Building professionalism in tomorrow’s health practitioners – a practical approach for creating a curriculum framework’, Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators, Christchurch, 30 June 2026.

Cochrane A & Duffy, J F. ‘A professionalism curriculum framework in Australia and New Zealand’, Optometry Education Conference 2026 (online, oral presentation), Manchester, UK, 29 June 2026.

Duffy, J.F & Cochrane A, ‘Using a professionalism curriculum framework to enhance clinical education, training and practice’, International Clinical Skills Conference, Prato, Italy, 19 May 2025.

Duffy, J.F & McWhirter R, ‘Bioethics education in the clinic: supporting students to be independent learners’, Asia Pacific Bioethics Education Network Conference, Manila, Philippines, 2023.

Recent peer-reviewed abstract presentations - local 

Duffy, J.F & Douglass, A, ‘Understanding the demographics of those who enter and leave the optometry profession. What can educators do differently to aid workforce retention?’ Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators, Adelaide, July 2024.

Recent invited presentations

Duffy, J.F & Cochrane A, ‘Interprofessional Symposium – Teaching Professionalism to Future Healthcare Practitioners’ supported by the Optometry Council of Australian and New Zealand, attended by invited educators from ten health practitioner groups, Melbourne, June 2026.

Duffy, J.F & Cochrane A, ‘Professionalism Curriculum Framework Workshop’ supported by the Optometry Council of Australian and New Zealand, attended by invited optometry educators from all of the optometry programs in Australasia, Melbourne, October 2025.