Georgina C Stephens

Biographic Data

ID9557672
NAMEGeorgina C Stephens
GIVEN NAMESGeorgina C
FAMILY NAMEStephens
SIGNATURESTEPHENS G C
AFFILIATIONSCentre for Human Anatomy Education Monash University Clayton Victoria Australia
ORCID0000-0001-9695-7592
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Uncertainty experienced by newly qualified doctors during the transition to internship

    Open AccessMolly Dineen, Michelle D Lazarus et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2025

  • Reviving vivas

    Open AccessGeorgina C Stephens, Yasith Mathangasinghe et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2025

    Anatomy is foundational to medical practice, with doctors applying anatomy knowledge to patient care and interprofessional communication. Despite this, undergraduate medical anatomy assessment typically uses multiple-choice questions (MCQs), which cannot assess anatomical communication skills. Oral examinations or ‘vivas’ require students to communicate and demonstrate anatomical knowledge but have been largely phased out as summative assessments…

  • Anatomical MythBusters

    Open AccessGeorgina C Stephens, Michelle D LazarusARTICLEMedical Education2024

    Misconceptions are persistent ideas that are not supported by current scientific views and are considered distinct from a lack of knowledge, in that misconceptions exist despite teaching on a topic.1 Misconceptions are known to be common in anatomy learning and may stem from a variety of factors including the nature of the discipline (e.g. depth of detail and complex nomenclature), surface learning approaches (e.g. memorisation of isolated anatom…

  • ‘I was uncertain, but I was acting on it’

    Open AccessGeorgina C Stephens, Mahbub Sarkar et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2024

  • Whose voices are heard in health professions education validity arguments

    Open AccessGeorgina C Stephens, Gabrielle Brand et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2024

    The authors contend that building adequate validity evidence requires collaborating with stakeholders with diverse expertise (e.g. students, patients, practicing clinicians, and researchers from multiple disciplines)

  • Twelve tips for developing healthcare learners’ uncertainty tolerance

    Open AccessGeorgina C Stephens, Michelle D LazarusARTICLEMedical Teacher2024

    BACKGROUND: Uncertainty is pervasive throughout healthcare practice. Uncertainty tolerance (i.e. adaptively responding to perceived uncertainty) is considered to benefit practitioner wellbeing, encourage person-centred care, and support judicious healthcare resource utilisation. Accordingly, uncertainty tolerance development is increasingly referenced within training frameworks. Practical approaches to support healthcare learners' uncertainty tol…

  • In Reply to Hancock and Mattick

    Open AccessGeorgina C Stephens, Adam B Wilson et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023

    Stephens, Georgina C. MBBS, PhD; Wilson, Adam B. PhD; Lazarus, Michelle D. PhD Author Information

  • Identifying validity evidence for uncertainty tolerance scales

    Open AccessGeorgina C Stephens, Michelle D Lazarus et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2023

  • ‘A whole lot of uncertainty’

    Open AccessGeorgina C Stephens, Mahbub Sarkar et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2022