Staff Profiles
Dr Sarah Nufable
Associate Professor
- Email: sarah.lontac-nufable@newcastle.edu.my
- Telephone: 0104601400
- Fax: 075553888
- Address: NUMed Malaysia Sdn Bhd
No. 1 Jalan Sarjana 1, Kota Ilmu, Educity@Iskandar, 79200 Iskandar Puteri (formerly Nusajaya), Johor
Roles and responsibilities
Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs since 2014, I have been in charge of the following responsibilities:
- Assisting the Dean of Academic Affairs in managing Essentials of Medical Practice (EoMP)/Phase I teaching and learning
- Contributing in the development of faculty's teaching strategies in medicine by being a member of the Executive Board
- Ensuring quality and accuracy of EoMP/Phase I documentation and learning materials
- Providing academic support to EoMP/Phase I students
- Taking an active role in the management, development and delivery of Phase I assessments
- Actively participating in the development of the new curriculum
- Lead of Simulation Team for Essentials of Medical Practice (EoMP)
- Member of the Team Based Learning (TBL) working group for EoMP
- Academic Mentor Lead since AY 20172018
Background
I have been a registered Doctor of Medicine since 2003. Although my most recent clinical experience is in Clinical Geriatrics, I have spent most of my career transferring my knowledge as a teacher and serving the underserved as a community physician. These were my main reasons and will always be my reasons in pursuing this career. Although I am purely teaching as of the moment, I believe that I am still reaching out to the society substantially by ensuring that the future doctors in the region will not only be men of science but human in their innermost core.
Contributions
- Curriculum development for Years 1 and 2
- Collaboration in research on the effectiveness of real time online questioning in the learning of Phase I students
- Suggested the current design for the name badge of medical students in NUMed
- Facilitated the creation of Phase I practical guide in Anatomy
- Pioneered the comprehensive geriatric management of home-bound, disabled geriatric patients in Valenzuela City in collaboration with the City Health Office
Qualifications, Honors and Awards
- Distinguished Alumna, Our Lady of Fatima University, Philippines
- Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education, Newcastle University, UK
- Specialist in Community Geriatrics, Philippines
- Licensed Doctor of Medicine, Philippines - 6th Place (2003, National)
- Doctor of Medicine (Postgraduate), Philippines - Cum Laude
- Bachelor of Science In Biology, Philippines - Magna Cum Laude
Memberships
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK
- Member of Philippine College of Geriatric Medicine
- Diplomate of Philippine College of Gerontology and Geriatrics Incorporation
- Member of Philippine Medical Association
- Member of Cavite Medical Society
- Member of Philippine Society of Anatomists
Module Coordination
- Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Renal Medicine I and II (CRRM I and II)
- Life Cycle 1, 2 and 3 (LC 1, 2 and 3)
- Foundation Weeks (3)
- Case 1 (Cardiac Case)
- Case 25 (Ageing Case)
Sessions Delivered
- Cardiovascular Physiology
- Clinical Skills and Communications
- Anatomy
- Nutrition
- Public Health
- Geriatrics
- Prevalence of Diabetic Neuropathy among Senior Citizens with Diabetes in Key Cities in Metro Manila
- Development of a Cross-Campus Interprofessional Education Curriculum in Malaysia for Pharmacy and Medicine Degree Students
- Teaching Phase I Students Using Question-Based Instructional Design with Clickers
- Nufable JN, Nufable SL, Price R, Guilding C. A Practitioner's Enquiry: Teaching Pre-Clinical MBBS Students Using a Question Based Instructional Design with Clickers. In: Newcastle University Learning and Teaching Conference 2018. 2018, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Newcastle University. Submitted.
- Nufable JN, Nufable SL, Guilding C. A Practitioner's Inquiry: Teaching Pre-clinical MBBS Students using a 'Question Based Instructional Design with Clickers'. In: 15th Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (APMEC). 2018, Singapore: National University of Singapore.
- Nufable S, Fletcher K, Weston S, Cronin M, Guilding C. Development of a Cross-campus Inter-professional Education Curriculum in Malaysia for Pharmacy and Medicine Degree Students. In: 1st Asia Pacific Interprofessional Education and Collaboration Conference (APIPEC). 2017, Solo, Surakarta, Indonesia: Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sebelas Maret.