Staff Profiles

Background

Background: I am an academic in medical education with expertise in curriculum development, teaching innovation, and faculty leadership. My career spans over a decade and half (Seventeen years) in higher education where I have expertise in teaching in MBBS, BMS, Dental and Nursing students. I transitioned from Occupational Physiology research to Education-focused scholarship. I have published original articles in the arena of Occupational health, Ergonomics and recently in Medical Education and contributed to advancing teaching excellence, recognised through awards (Teaching Excellence Award 2024 by Newcastle Students Union, UK in Global Campus Category) and achieved Senior Fellowship (SFHEA, UK).

Current Role:

ö Delivering MBBS programme; Actively involved in theoretical and practical classes for stage I and stage II students in Preclinical phases in an Integrated Spiral Case Based (U.K) Curriculum

ö Acting as Case Lead for MBBS programme and successfully involved in the curriculum development and reviewing process.

ö Act as coordinator for the “Induction Event” of new staffs

ö Mentor new staffs in various domains (use of medical learning environment (MLE); help mature to be a Deputy lead for cases, guide in small and large group of teaching techniques).

ö An active member in Curriculum implementation Committee for the establishment of new curriculum in MBBS programme in Numed Malaysia, in the context of complete modification of the curriculum in Newcastle University, UK Campus.

ö Delivering BMS Programme and Module Leader in Physiology: Overseeing the entire module, taking classes (70%) and reviewing the module curriculum.

ö Lead in “POWER LAB” and Implemented “Virtual Physiology” software in NUMed for remote learning for the BMS practical.

ö Managing small group discussions, Scientific seminars, Community activities

ö Playing “Academic Mentor” role.

ö Member of Board of Studies (BMS), Board of Examiners (BMS), Career Support team (BMS), Curriculum Implementation Committee ((MBBS), Staff student committee (MBBS) Environment and sustainable campus committee (ESCC) and Safety and Health committee, Working group member (MBBS) for NUMEd admission (recent)

ö Prepare documents on “Risk analysis for Health and Safety” related issues on Laboratory practicals based on COSHH and BIOCOSHH.

ö Have been given additional responsibilities to act with Numed Safety team in guiding and framing up the questions for risk analysis section in the event of various University programmes, whenever required.

ö Involved in MBBS student interviewing process, Promotional activities

ö Member of Career development team for BMS programme

ö Assessing skills during examination

§ Assess Technical Skills

· Through OSCE (Basic Life support system, Blood pressure measurement, History taking stations, Venepuncture)

· Basic First Aid in emergency [ As a part of Professionalism skill]

§ Assess Knowledge Domain & soft skill competency

· Posters creation, Oral presentaion

· Assignments (Family study)

· Scientific Essay writing

· Data interpretation ability

Prepare MCQ’s, EMI, SBA’s, Short answer papers (SAP).

Research:

Received Fund for Educational project (ERDP, UK, Sept 24- Aug 25) as PI (£1,553) and finished the project

Guide 2 research interns (4th year MBBS students)

Finished one Educational Project of NUMed (without grant) on 2019-20

Engagement:

Received Student Fund Disbursement (£2,795.19) for career activity (2023-24), NU, UK

Teaching

Teaching:

Mainly Cardiovascular, Renal and Respiratory physiology along with other systems in Physiology in preclinical years across multiple cases in Case led integrated curriculum.

Other subjects (partially): Cell biology, Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Pathophysiology, Functional Anatomy (Both in MBBS and BMS)

Conduct: Lectures in large group setting for MBBS (Year 1 and 2) and BMS (Year 1 and 2)

Practicals in Physiology for preclinical years (MBBS and BMS)

Small group seminars (MBBS and BMS)

High fidelity simulation teaching in ECG for preclinical MBBS students

Case lead: MBBS: Hypertension, Kidney disease

Module lead: BMS: Physiology module

Assignment Lead: MBBS: Competency based skill development approach: A portfolio-based method (Abstract, Poster and Presentation)

Practical Lead: BMS: Power Lab and Virtual physiology

Others: Manage scientific seminars (BMS)

Conducts ECCE visits (MBBS students)

Marking formative and summative examinations (MBBS + BMS)

Assess technical skills (OSCE) for MBBS

Assess knowledge domains (Poster/Assignments/ Scientific essay writings/Presentations/ Lab reports/ Data interpretation skills etc) : MBBS + BMS

Research

Research:

Topic: A randomized controlled study comparing the efficacy of high-fidelity simulation-based teaching and video-assisted teaching in ECG learning in preclinical medical students

Collaborative officials: Dr Bikramjit Pal, Dr Angus Aranan, Dr Prakash Manickam Kumarasamy, Dr Andrew Chaytor, Dr Kye Mon Min Swe, Prof Harinarayan Radhakrishna, Dr Joanna Matthan

Institution: NUMed + Newcastle University, UK

Tenure: 2024-25

Contribution: PI

Research:

Topic: Navigating the learning style of of MBBS preclinical students in the Case- led curricular environment.

Collaborative officials: Bhavani Veasuvalingam

Institution: NUMed

Tenure: 2018-2021

Contribution: PI

Topic: Cardiovascular demand of Roof Drilling job in coal mines of Eastern India.

Collaborative officials: Dr. N. C. Dey, GD Sharma and S.Nath

Institution: Bengal Engineering & Science University, India. Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India funded Research Project

Tenure: 2011-2013