Medical Education Unit

Goal: To improve the quality of HEALTH PROFESSIONAL training by training the health professional educators.

Vision: To become a centre of excellence in health professions education and research

Mission:

‘Promoting capacity building in health professions education by providing consultancy in issues related to health professions education while promoting the culture of educational research through external collaborations nationally and internationally’

Objectives:

Ø  To conduct Periodic Faculty development training at MMMC to empower educators in the field of teaching-learning, assessment and academic leadership

Ø  To Provide inputs for curriculum development

Ø  To Organise national & international workshops on HEALTH PROFESSIONS education

Ø  To FOSTER academic interaction at a multidisciplinary/inter-professional level

Ø  To PROMOTE academic innovations in HEALTH PROFESSIONS education

Ø  To promote scholarship in teaching and learning

Ø  To Disseminate the activities of the unit through Bulletin

Advisor: Prof Jaspal Singh Sahota, Chief Executive, MMMC

Chairperson: Prof Dr Soumendra Sahoo, MBBS, MS, PhD (Medicine), CMCL-FAIMER Fellow

Core Members:

1. Prof Dr K L Karanth

2. Prof Dr Soe Moe

3. Prof Dr Nan Nitra Than

4. A/P Dr Sowmya Nettem

5. Dr Renjith George

6. Dr Narendra Kumar

Support Staff: Ms Khalilah Abdullah & Mr Krunesvaran AL Subramaniam

Contact: meu@manipal.edu.my

Tel: +606 - 289 6662 (ext. 1044)

Fax: +606 - 281 7977