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General Practitioner, PhD Candidate, Bond University

Natasha Yates (MBBS, FRACGP, PhD Candidate) is a practicing clinician and passionate medical educator. She has her fingers on the pulse of what matters to her community, and is frequently called upon to translate medical knowledge into everyday language. Previously the deputy lead of General Practice at Bond University, Gold Coast, she recently resigned in order to pursue a PhD in medical education.

True to General Practice in the Australian context, her clinical practice spans from 'womb to tomb'. She currently practices primarily with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and has 20 years of experience working in both urban and rural mainstream settings. Her PhD is in area of teaching and learning in collaborative, co-regulated learning environments (especially Simulation Based Education). As well as teaching General Practice at Bond University, she has taught clinical reasoning and critical thinking. She has served on the Bond University Research Ethics Committee since 2020 which has given her a wealth of insight into research across faculties and the community.

Natasha is also the mother of four school aged children. She loves to see children fall in love with reading, and her first children's novel 'Rina's Story' was a finalist in the American Book Excellence Awards 2021. It is sold to raise funds to support child literacy in Mozambique (see www.rinasstory.com ).

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor, General Practice, Bond University