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Dr David Reid

Associate Dean

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 3518
Email: d.reid@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO21.540  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9736-1029

David is the Associate Dean of Allied Health in the School of Medical and Health Sciences and a Registered Paramedic.

Current Teaching

David has a teaching focus on emergency care focussing on trauma and prehospital resuscitation, ethics and law and emergency management. He has a specialist interest in safety and quality in healthcare and clinical governance.

Background

David holds pre-hospital qualifications and works with St John Ambulance (WA). Previously he worked for the Ambulance Service of NSW and St John Ambulance (Northern Territory). He has held operational (front line) paramedical roles as well as management roles in areas such as emergency management, clinical governance, and resuscitation improvement.

Prior to joining ECU, David spent a number of years in management consulting, where, as a manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers and a boutique consultancy in Perth he undertook specialist healthcare consulting across private and public healthcare providers.

He is a past Director of Performance Review in the Office of the Auditor General (WA), and holds the Australian Institute of Company Director’s Diploma.

In his spare time David is a member of Surf Life Saving Australia’s Medical Advisory Committee and is currently on the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare’s Committee developing Safety and Quality Standards for Australian Ambulance Services. He is a competency assessor for Ahpra and leads  consortium of five Universities providing assessment services to the Paramedicine Board of Australia.

Professional Associations

  • Graduate Member Australian Institute of Company Directors
  • Member Paramedics Australasia
  • Independent Member Lifesaving Advisory Committee – Surf Life Saving Australia

Awards and Recognition

  • School of Medical and Health Sciences Strategic Initiative Funds. Edith Cowan University, June 2016 (Postgraduate Paramedic Management Course Development (with St John NT); Transport Officer Course Development (with PIBT); Electronic Skills Tracker for Paramedic Students; Zip Car for Extrication Training).
  • School of Medical and Health Sciences Student Research Cadetship. Edith Cowan University. Analysis of injuries at the Surf Life Saving Australia national championships. $3,000. May 2016.
  • WA Clinical Training Network. Simulated Learning Environments Research Grant 2016. Investigating the extent highly realistic moulage impacts on learning outcomes in simulation-based learning environments. $15,000. February 2016.
  • Collaboration Enhancement Grant. Edith Cowan University, $2,000. October 2015 (with Surf Life Saving Australia).
  • Endeavour Grant. Australian Government. $16,000 grant for students to participate in a study tour for 4-weeks with London Ambulance Service. February, 2016.
  • New Colombo Plan. Australian Government. 3-years recurrent funding for 15 students to visit Sanglah Hospital, Indonesia on study tour. $90,000. August 2015.

Research Areas and Interests

  • Pre-Hospital Paramedicine
  • Emergency Management
  • Mass Gatherings
  • Aeromedical Clinical Care and Evacuation
  • Evidence Based Competency Assessment

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2022.
  • Bachelor of Science (Paramedical Science), Edith Cowan University, 2013.
  • Master of Health Management with Honours, The University of New England, 2003.
  • Bachelor of Agricultural Economics, The University of Sydney, 1995.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Simpson, P., Barr, N., Reid, D., Boyle, M., Williams, B. (2023). Profiling the Australasian paramedicine tertiary academic sector and workforce: A cross-sectional study. Paramedicine, 20(6), 206-213. https://doi.org/10.1177/27536386231185602.
  • Mills, B., Hill, M., Miles, A., Smith, E., Afrifa-Yamoah, E., Reid, D., Rogers, S., Sim, M. (2023). Calling an ambulance for non-emergency medical situations: Results of a cross-sectional online survey from an Australian nationally representative sample. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 35(1), 133-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.14086.

Journal Articles

  • Williams, B., King, C., Boyle, M., Clegg, L., Devenish, S., Kamphuis, C., King, J., Reid, D. (2022). Contrapower harassment in paramedicine: Experiences of academic staff in Australian universities. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 19(22 March 2022), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.33151/AJP.19.1006.
  • Mills, B., Hill, M., Miles, A., Smith, E., Afrifa-Yamoah, E., Reid, D., Rogers, S., Sim, M. (2022). Ability of the Australian general public to identify common emergency medical situations: Results of an online survey of a nationally representative sample. Australasian Emergency Care, 25(4), 327-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.auec.2022.04.002.

Journal Articles

  • Smith, E., Hill, M., Anderson, C., Sim, M., Miles, A., Reid, D., Mills, B. (2021). Lived Experience of Emergency Health Care Utilization during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 36(6), 691-696. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X21001126.

Journal Articles

  • Reid, D., Sim, M., Beatty, S., Grantham, H., Gale, M. (2020). Pre-hospital advanced life support resuscitation training: A pilot of an evidence-based curriculum. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 17(November), 8p.. https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.17.846.
  • Reid, D., Sim, M., Beatty, S., Grantham, H., Gale, M. (2020). Pre-hospital advanced life support resuscitation – a curriculum for pre-hospital education. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 17(2020), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.17.757.

Journal Articles

  • Reid, D., Street, K., Beatty, S., Vencatachellum, S., Mills, B. (2019). Preparedness of graduate paramedics for practice: a comparison of Australian and United Kingdom education pathways. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 16(2019), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.16.666.

Journal Articles

  • Reid, D., Jones, R., Sim, M. (2018). Pre-hospital advanced life support education – core components for pre-hospital professionals. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 15(1), Article 4. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/4023.
  • Mills, B., Miles, A., Phan, T., Dykstra, P., Hansen, S., Reid, D., Langdon, C., Walsh, A. (2018). Investigating the extent realistic moulage impacts on immersion and performance amongst undergraduate paramedicine students in a simulation-based traumatic scenario: A pilot study. Simulation in Healthcare: Journal of the society for simulation in healthcare, 13(5), 331-340. https://doi.org/10.1097/SIH.0000000000000318.

Journal Articles

  • Mills, B., Carter, O., Pross, N., Quick, JK., Rudd, C., Reid, D. (2016). The contribution of instructor presence to social evaluation anxiety, immersion and performance within simulation-based learning environments: a within-subject randomised cross-over trial with paramedic students. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 13(2), Article No. 3.

Journal Articles

  • Reid, D., Leahy, S., Widermanski, A. (2015). Mass gathering medical planning: An overview of the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 12(2), 7p..

Research Projects

  • Community expectations and utilisation of emergency health services during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Covid-19 Research Fund, 2020 ‑ 2023, $100,000.
  • An international comparison of paramedic skills acquisition between two different models of tertiary education., Edith Cowan University, ECU Collaboration Enhancement Scheme - 2016 Round 2, 2017 ‑ 2018, $10,000.
  • Investigating the extent to which highly realistic moulage impacts on learning outcomes in simulation-based learning environments, Department of Health WA, Simulated Learning Environments Research Grants 2016, 2016, $15,000.

Research Student Supervision

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