Associate Professor Nancy Sturman

Research Interests
Health and Social Care for Vulnerable Populations
Active and recent projects explore healthcare for people with experience of homelessness, mental illness, and/or substance use issues. These include:
- General practice care for patients with severe and persistent mental illness;
- Digital health access in people experiencing homelessness;
- Experiences of healthcare for people experiencing homelessness;
- Working with interpreters;
- Methamphetamine use and opiate dependency.
Selection of recent publications
Sturman, Nancy and Matheson, Don (2020). 'I just hope they take it seriously': homeless men talk about their health care. Australian Health Review 44 (5) 748-754. https://doi.org/10.1071/ah19070
Sturman, Nancy and Matheson, Don (2020). ‘Genuine doctor care’: Perspectives on general practice and community-based care of Australian men experiencing homelessness. Health and Social Care in the Community, 28 (4) hsc.12963, 1301-1309. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12963
Sturman, Nancy, Williams, Ryan, Ostini, Remo, Wyder, Marianne and Siskind, Dan (2020). 'A really good GP': engagement and satisfaction with general practice care of people with severe and persistent mental illness. Australian Journal of General Practice, 49 (1-2), 61-65. doi: 10.31128/AJGP-02-19-485
Sturman, Nancy, Farley, Rebecca, Claudio, Fernanda and Avila, Patricia (2017). Improving the effectiveness of interpreted consultations: Australian interpreter, general practitioner and patient perspectives. Health & social care in the community, 26 (2), 233-240. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12504
Medical Education and General Practice Training
Recent and current scholarship of teaching and learning projects explore the following:
- Teaching and learning about ethical issues and professionalism in general practice;
- Work-based learning in general practice training and medical education;
- Self-monitoring and help-seeking in general practice training;
- Student perspectives on, and utilisation of, online resources and teaching
- Assessment in medical education;
- Curriculum development;
- Faculty and supervisor professional development.
Selection of recent publications
Sturman, Nancy, Parker, Malcolm, and Jorm, Christine (2020). Clinical supervision in general practice training: the interweaving of supervisor, trainee and patient entrustment with clinical oversight, patient safety and trainee learning. Advances in Health Sciences Education 26 (1) 297-311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-020-09986-7
Sturman, Nancy J., Tapley, Amanda, van Driel, Mieke L., Holliday, Elizabeth G., Ball, Jean I., Davey, Andrew R., Fielding, Alison, FitzGerald, Kristen, Spike, Neil A., and Magin, Parker J. (2020). Configurations for obtaining in-consultation assistance from supervisors in general practice training, and patient-related barriers to trainee help-seeking: a survey study. BMC Medical Education 20 (1) 369 369. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02291-2
Sturman, Nancy, Jorm, Christine and Parker, Malcolm (2020). With a grain of salt? Supervisor credibility and other factors influencing trainee decisions to seek in-consultation assistance: a focus group study of Australian general practice trainees. BMC Family Practice, 21 (1) 28, 28. doi: 10.1186/s12875-020-1084-7
Sturman, Nancy and Ostini, Remo (2018). Medical student contact with specialty trainees: missing out in general practice?. Australian Journal of General Practice, 47 (6), 391-395. doi: 10.31128/AJGP-12-17-4423
Sturman, Nancy, Tan, Zachary and Turner, Jane (2017). “A steep learning curve”: junior doctor perspectives on the transition from medical student to the health-care workplace. BMC Medical Education, 17 (92) 92, 92. doi: 10.1186/s12909-017-0931-2
The Craft of General Practice
Active projects explore the relational basis of general practice, general practitioner health and well-being, and partnerships with other health professions.
Selection of recent publications
Foot, Holly, Scott, Ian, Sturman, Nancy, Whitty, Jennifer A., Rixon, Kylie, Connelly, Luke, Williams, Ian, and Freeman, Christopher (2021). Impact of pharmacist and physician collaborations in primary care on reducing readmission to hospital: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2021.07.015
Freeman, Christopher R., Scott, Ian A., Hemming, Karla, Connelly, Luke B., Kirkpatrick, Carl M., Coombes, Ian, Whitty, Jennifer, Martin, James, Cottrell, Neil, Sturman, Nancy, Russell, Grant M., Williams, Ian, Nicholson, Caroline, Kirsa, Sue, and Foot, Holly (2021). Reducing Medical Admissions and Presentations Into Hospital through Optimising Medicines (REMAIN HOME): a stepped wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial. The Medical Journal of Australia 214 (5) 212-217. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50942
Foot, Holly, Freeman, Christopher, Hemming, Karla, Scott, Ian, Coombes, Ian D., Williams, Ian D., Connelly, Luke, Whitty, Jennifer A., Sturman, Nancy, Kirsa, Sue, Nicholson, Caroline, Russell, Grant, Kirkpatrick, Carl and Cottrell, Neil (2017). Reducing medical admissions into hospital through optimising medicines (REMAIN HOME) study: protocol for a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial. BMJ Open, 7 (4) e015301, e015301. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-01530