Certificate in Clinical Supervision

As one of SkillsFuture fellows, Heidi demonstrates strong commitment towards lifelong learning and developing the skills of others. With more than 20 years of experience as an Occupational Therapist (OT), Heidi holds senior clinical and education leadership roles and appointments at TTSH, in addition to her faculty role at SIT. She was instrumental in setting up the SIT clinical educator appointment system and the development of the “I am a Clinical Educator (ICE)” workshop for SIT-appointed clinical educators in 2017. Her curiosity in the science of teaching led her to complete the Master’s in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University in 2022.

Clinically, Heidi specialises in medico-legal functional capacity evaluations, Return-to-work (RTW) service development and workplace disability management. She was the principal investigator in a Ministry of Manpower (MOM)-funded study on the effectiveness of hospital-based RTW coordinators in 2012 and had collaborated closely with Workplace Safety and Health Council on the “RTW coordination in Singapore- A guide for public hospitals” to support the roll out of the national RTW programme in 2017. She is a Certified Disability Management Professional with the National Institute of Disability, Management and Research.

Hwee Kuan is a clinician educator with more than 20 years of physiotherapy practice. Academically, she has been a teaching faculty at SIT since 2015 and also enthusiastically engaged in post-professional physiotherapy education.

To further equip her role as a clinician educator, Hwee completed a Master of Health Professions Education at Maastricht University in 2017. Administratively, Hwee has been leading the training and staff development for Singapore General Hospital’s Physiotherapy Department since 2013. Her key responsibility is to build a training framework that complements the competency framework and the career path for SGH physiotherapists.

Hwee Kuan is also the Clinical Education Lead for SGH Allied Health Professional since 2016, where she oversees all Allied Health PECT-funded clinical attachment programmes in SGH campus.

Li Hoon oversees the training and development needs of Radiographers and Radiography students’ clinical placement at Sengkang General Hospital. She is an Associate Faculty for both SIT and Parkway College, and she represents the Radiography profession in AHPC as a council member.

Her keen interest in teaching and learning has led her in furthering her studies in Clinical Education as a part-time student, and she attained a Master of Science in Clinical Education from the University of Edinburgh.

Li Hoon’s keen interest in developing Allied Health Professionals has also landed her in the role of Vice Chair (Wellness, Educator & Professional Development), College of Allied Health, SingHealth.

Lawrence has more than 20 years of experience as a medical social worker and a trained systemic psychotherapist. He is an experienced health professional educator with a Master's in Health Professions Education from MGH Institute of Health Professions.

He was the Education Lead of Care and Counselling Department from 2012 to 2021 at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and played a key leadership role in the Allied Health Education taskforce.

Lawrence encouraged mutual and tacit learning among allied health professionals through leading the formation of Community of Educators (adapted from Community of Practice). He also co-led an interprofessional faculty team to develop the Coaching Tools for Clinical Educators workshop at NHG college.

Dr May Lim is an Associate Professor and Assistant Provost (Applied Learning) at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). She is the first occupational therapist in Singapore to be awarded the Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD) qualification. She started the Bachelor of Science (with Honours) in Occupational Therapy degree at SIT in 2016. May was also involved in national projects such as providing consultancy to early intervention centres. Currently, she serves at the SPD Board, volunteers as trainer at CaringSG, and partners Dementia Singapore on research initiatives. She continues her clinical practice on Friday mornings with young children with developmental delays.

May led a centre that looks after learning and teaching development at the university level from 2017 – 2022. She actively builds a coaching culture for educators to develop students beyond the classroom. She won the university Teaching Excellence Award in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and Education 2.0 Outstanding Leadership Award, National Day Honours: Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2022. Her research interests are transition, coaching, self-efficacy and resilience, approaches to learning, and developmental disabilities. She is a certified Solution-Focused Coach with CCPC Global, Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Certified Positive Intelligence Coach.

Karina Dancza received her Bachelor of Occupational Therapy degree from the University of South Australia in 2000. She later obtained her Masters Degree in Education from the University of Wales, and PhD in Occupational Therapy from The University of Queensland in Australia. Her research interests include professional supervision and workforce transformation, particularly in the context of healthcare and rehabilitation services. Dr. Dancza is highly regarded in the occupational therapy community and is known for her contributions to the development of professional supervision frameworks and her work on enhancing the quality of healthcare services through professional development. As an Associate Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology, she is committed to providing high-quality education to the next generation of occupational therapists and helping to advance the field of healthcare through research and innovation. In 2022 she published her second textbook with Routledge on Supervision for Occupational Therapy: Practical Guidance for Supervisors and Supervisees.

Rahizan Zainuldin is an Associate Professor with the Health and Social Sciences (HSS) cluster and a physiotherapist by training. Together with a small group of faculty members, he co-designed the Clinical Practice Education (CPE) structure and curriculum for the undergraduate allied health programs, including clinical supervision for students. He was also the physiotherapy CPE Lead and designed competency assessments and operations for the physiotherapy CPE. He led the HSS CPE as Chair from 2020-2023.

Rahizan is a keen advocate for Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs), a novel assessment to support entrustment decisions for learners/trainees to perform clinical tasks. He has undergone EPA assessment training internationally and is a trained designer and assessor of EPAs. He is a member of the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) Curriculum Review Standing Committee to review the development and implementation of EPAs in each undergraduate allied health CPE. He has implemented physiotherapy EPAs from 2021 and trained hundreds of clinicians in their role as clinical educators assessing physiotherapy students using EPAs at CPE. In his work on EPAs, Rahizan has published three peer-reviewed articles and presented at the OTTAWA conference, an established network for healthcare professions education and assessment.

Esther is an occupational therapist with more than 20 years of clinical experience. She has a strong interest in education and actively involves in clinical teaching for occupational therapy students. To be better equipped in education and teaching, Esther completed her Master of Science in Clinical Education at the University of Edinburgh in 2021. Having developed a special interest in interprofessional education, she is currently the chairperson of the interprofessional education committee and is actively promoting interprofessional collaboration across different departments at the National University Hospital.

Clinically, Esther specialised in paediatric, her clinical interest is social-emotional development in children and parent coaching. She completed her Master's in Health Sciences (Occupational Therapy, specialised in Paediatric) at the University of Sydney in 2007, and was certified as the DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader under the Interdisciplinary Council in Development and Learning (ICDL) in 2016. She has been teaching DIRFloortime® certificate course locally and internationally.

Besides her clinical role as a paediatric occupational therapist, Esther is also the Clinical Education Lead for Allied Health Professional at the National University Hospital of Singapore.

Suhana has more than 20 years of clinical experience in neurological and neurosurgical patients at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and helms the Education lead portfolio at the Physiotherapy Department (TTSH) since 2016. Her key role is to oversee staff and student education including faculty development.

Suhana is an appointed Clinical Education Coordinator (CEC) with SIT since 2019. She has driven student clinical education innovations in the department since it started, exploring the different models of student education such as collaborative learning.

Apart from that, she is also a core member of the division’s education taskforce team; actively involved in developing strategic plans for allied health educators.

Under NHG College, she is the Program Director for ‘Coaching Tool for Clinical Educators’ course and the PT Lead for a simulation-based ‘Workplace Based Assessment using Mini-CEX’ workshop.

Teresa is an accredited practicing dietitian certified by the Dietetics Association of Australia. She obtained a Masters of Advance Dietetic Practice from University of Nottingham, United Kingdom and is currently a dietitian at Tan Tock Seng Hospital since 2008 where she provides nutritional support and dietary counselling for different patient groups, in both acute and rehabilitative settings with a clinical specialisation in oncology.

Teresa also has a keen interest in health professions education as she believes that education is a key catalyst for continuous improvement in patient care in an increasingly complex healthcare landscape. She is a member of the TTSH Allied Health (AH) education taskforce since 2011 and has been involved in department and division education initiatives involving design and implementation of workplace based assessments, needs assessments, workshops, standardised course evaluation forms, e-learning programs for collaborative learning and orientation of new AH educators with aims to upskill, provide timely support and appropriate resources for all AH educators.

She enjoys working with her fellow AH educators from various AH departments as diversity brings creativity and innovation to ensure all AH educators are well supported in their development.