Associate ProfessorTim Baker

Associate Professor Baker is interested in helping clinicians provide excellent rural emergency care, whether generalist or specialist doctors, nurses, or paramedics. He has a Master of Clinical Education and is interested in curriculum development for rural clinicians, particularly using an entrustable professional activity framework. He has practical experience with rural curriculum development through work as the convenor of Deakin University’s Doctor of Medicine Emergency Medicine Rotation and as the previous chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine’s Associateship program. He also teaches directly to clinicians through the Emergency Medicine Education and Training program and in his regular work with medical students and junior doctors in rural emergency departments.

In addition, he is the current chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine’s National Program Steering Committee, which oversees the Commonwealth-funded nationwide Emergency Medicine Education and Training Program and an examiner for the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine Advanced Specialised Training in Emergency Medicine.