Research Publications - College of Medicine and Health Science

African Family Practice Journal, Acta Academica
South Africa and Southern African Journal of
Epidemiology and Infection. During the past
year she has reviewed 6 articles for publication
in these journals.
Associate Professor Dr Stella Major is an Honorary
Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.
She has contributed to three chapters in a new
undergraduate textbook published by Wiley;
General Practice at a Glance, together with her
colleagues from Imperial College, Department
of Primary Care and Social Medicine. She is an
independent external assessor for an application
for registration for a PhD student in the
school of public health and social medicine
at Imperial College, London titled: Exploring
the Use of Smartphone Health Apps as a Self-
Management Tool for Chronic Conditions. Her
collaboration with colleagues at the American
University of Beirut continues by which she has
been invited to attend as an external examiner
for the Oral Examination of the Arab Board of
Family Medicine Specialty in the New Year. In
2011, Dr Stella Major was awarded Fellowship
of the Royal College of General Practitioners
for her contribution to British and International
General Practice in the fields of Teaching, Research
and Academic Leadership. As an active
member of the International MRCGP Int. Group,
she has been invited to be an external examiner
for the Clinical Skills Assessment component
of the MRCGP International exams in Dubai in
2011.
Associate Professor Engela A M Prinsloo is
exploring the use of reflective portfolios, tutor
support and feedback to students in a family
medicine clerkship and an ongoing action
research project is being conducted. Dr Prinsloo
other research area is the implementation and
use of obesity guidelines in primary health care
settings for adult and pediatric population. She
is also interested in developing and researching
a sustainable conceptual model for experiential
teaching sites for Family Medicine through
collaboration between different partners
including universities, communities and service
providers.
Associate Professor Stella Major is the director
of the newly created Clinical Skills Course in the
Organs Systems Yrs (3 and 4) and is working
hard on developing an integrated, sustainable
and student- centered clinical skills program at
the FMHS.
In an attempt to make the course as robust
as possible, and yet culturally adjusted; she is
working with colleagues from the FMHS on
understanding the local context and how it
impacts the teaching of skills such as the communication
of bad news.
She plans to conduct an electronic Delphi
process with subject experts (local and international)
to formalize the content of the clinical
skills curriculum which has been drawn up by all
5 clinical departments at the FMHS, to prepare
the medical students for their junior clerkships
where they will be rotating in the hospitals and
outpatient clinic settings.
With the advent of internationalization of education,
and she being an international educator
herself, she is joined by medical educator
colleagues from the UK and Australia, to explore
attributes of an international medical educators
who choose to work away from their home
country, and hopes that the findings of this
qualitative international study will pave way
for improved understanding of how being an
international medical educators can benefit
oneself as a professional, the students, as well
as the employing academic institutions all over
the world.
Assistant Professor M Jawad Hashim is
engaged in research on health education
and health informatics. Health education is a
relatively nascent field of enquiry in this region
and our recent work with Emirati patients has
shed light on their unique preferences for
the format and delivery of health messages.
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