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Associate Professor Greg Ryan

Associate Professor and Director,
Pharmacy Education Unit

Qualifications

RN MA PhD

Contact Details

University of Sydney
Phone: +61 2 9036 7023
Fax: +61 2 9036 7097
Email:
Room N346
Pharmacy Education Unit
A15

Profile

Greg Ryan is Founding Director of the Pharmacy Education Unit, a core function of which is to provide academic and strategic leadership to enhance learning and teaching functions and outcomes in Pharmacy education. He moved to Pharmacy from the Faculty of Medicine, where he was Associate Dean (Education) and Director of the Office of Teaching and Learning in Medicine, an academic unit established to guide the development and implementation of the new graduate-entry University of Sydney Medical Program. While with Medicine, he also established a Postgraduate Program in Medical Education, and was instrumental in establishing the Centre for Innovation in Professional Health Education and Research. During this time, he was also closely involved in development of the new graduate-entry Bachelor of Dentistry program.

Prior to joining the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1997,
Dr Ryan coordinated the Postgraduate Program in Higher Education at the University of New South Wales, one of the first programs of its kind established in Australia. His clinical background is Nursing – at the University of Western Sydney where he played a key role in establishing their Bachelor of Nursing program – and at (what was then) the Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals complex.

Throughout a comprehensive professional career, he has developed expertise in all levels of tertiary and higher education, spanning undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education. A long-established specialisation in medical and health sciences education, underpinned by a strong clinical background, has led to a considerable reputation as an educational consultant, and extensive publication on a wide range of educational issues.

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Education Research Interests

  • clinical reasoning/problem solving
  • self direction/self regulation of learning
  • problem/case based learning
  • online learning
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Selected Refereed Publications

  1. Ryan, G., Bonanno, H., Krass, I., Scouller, K., & Smith, L. (in press) Undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students' perceptions of plagiarism and academic honesty. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.
  2. Ryan, G., Hanrahan, J., Krass, I., Sainsbury, E., & Smith L. (2009) Best practices assessment to guide curricular change in a Bachelor of Pharmacy program. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 73, 1, Article 12.
  3. Ryan, G., Lyon, P., Kumar, K., Barnet, S., Shaw, T., & Bell, J., (2007) Online CME: an effective alternative to face-to-face delivery. Medical Teacher 29,8, e251-e257.
  4. Groves, M., Gordon, J., & Ryan, G., (2007) Entry tests for graduate medical programs: is it time to re-think? Medical Journal of Australia, 186, 3, 120-123
  5. Wright, B., Scott, I., Powis, D., Woloschuk, W., Henry, R., Turnbull, D., Ryan, G. (2006) Career preferences of new medical students at four Australian Universities: rural family medicine versus the rest. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 14,5, 229-230.
  6. Ryan, G., Dolling, T., & Barnet, S., (2004) Supporting the problem-based learning process in the clinical years: evaluation of an on-line Clinical Reasoning Guide. Medical Education 38, 638-645.
  7. Hyde, S., Ryan, G., & Davy, P. (2004) Self regulation: a key to life long learning in medical education. Synergy, Issue 19, May, 21-23.
  8. Hendry, G., Ryan, G., Harris, J., (2003) Group problems in problem-based learning. Medical Teacher, 25, 6, 609-616
  9. Ryan, G., & Barnet, S., (2002) The University of Sydney Medical Program: web-supported PBL environment for medical education. Exemplar within Learning Designs: Products of the AUTC project on ICT-based learning projects. Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs.
  10. Commonwealth of Australia, (2000) “Innovative approaches in teaching and learning” and “Faculty support”, in Innovation in Medical Education: A Case Study from the University of Sydney, Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Occasional Paper Series.
  11. Ryan, G, (2000) PBL and the development of students’ metacognitive abilities. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. 11, 2&3, 227-251
  12. Conway, J., Fisher, R., Sheridan-Burns, L., and Ryan, G., (1997) Research and Development in Problem Based Learning, Volume 4. University of Newcastle. Australian Problem Based Learning Network.
  13. Ryan, G., (1997) Ensuring that students develop an adequate, and well-structured, knowledge base. In Boud, D., and Feletti, G., (Eds)(1997) The Challenge of Problem Based Learning. London. Kogan Page.
  14. Nightingale, P., TeWiata, I., Toohey, S., Ryan, G., Hughes, C., and Magin, D., (1996) Assessing Learning in Universities. Sydney. UNSW Press.
  15. Ryan, G., (1996) Solving problems and developing plans. In Nightingale, et al, Assessing Learning in Universities. Sydney. UNSW Press.
  16. Ryan, G., (1996) Assessment and Evaluation in Problem Based Learning: A monograph. University of Newcastle. PROBLARC.
  17. Ryan, G., Toohey, S., and Hughes, C., (1996) The purpose, value and structure of the practicum in higher education: a literature review. Higher Education, 31, 355-377.
  18. Toohey, S., Ryan, G., and Hughes, C., (1996) Assessing the practicum. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. 21, 3, 215-227.
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