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Current active projects
  • Exploring the impact of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™ personal and professional belief systems on health and illness behaviours and beliefs in collaboration with Professor Jane Ogden, Professor in Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Surrey
  • Cross cultural perceptions of unprofessional behaviour at medical school through a Q sort analysis - Collaboration with Dr Maham Stanyon, Professor Koji Otani and Professor Yayoi Kameoka, Centre for Medical Education and Career Development, Fukushima Medical University, Japan.
  • Exploration of early years medical ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™ professional identify development – collaboration with Hull & York Medical School and the University of Melbourne Medical School
  • Exploring the impact of medical student volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic on ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™ professional identity, development and learning
  • "Is the current system of fitness to practise fit for purpose? Exploring the relationship between ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status and disability"
  • Evaluation of MEdIC Masterclasses
  • Inclusion of MDT working in undergraduate healthcare curricular: similarities and differences between professions.

 

Selected presentations

A UK Medical Education Masterclass Series: a tool to improve access and opportunities for careers in medical education                              Victoria Collin, Zaid Alsafi, Nicholas Sylvan, Megan Brown, Ravi Parekh, Sonia Kumar                                                                                          ASME July 2022

Supporting epistemological bridge building in the wake of Covid-19: An international study of medical student pandemic professional identity development                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Laura Beaton, Megan Brown, Jo Horsburgh, Chance Pistoll, Sonia Kumar, Viral Thakerar, Claire Mahoney Jun Hua Lim                                        AMEE August 2021

Conversations not consultations: Medical Student service-learning during a COVID volunteering programme                                                       Ravi Parekh, Samantha Coster, Sonia Kumar, Zoe Moula                                                                                                                                          AMEE August 2021

Community Action Projects: A journey to designing effective community engaged quality improvement                                                                  Sonia Kumar, Sam Coster, Nina Dutta, Molly Fyfe, Roya Hassanzadeh, Dominique Forrest                                                                                    AMEE August 2021

An international study of medical student pandemic professional identity development                                                                                Megan Brown, Jo Horsburgh, Sonia Kumar, Viral Thakerar, Chance Pistoll, Caroline Johnson, Jun Hua Lim                                                                  Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME), Annual Scientific Meeting, July 2021

A qualitative study of an approach to change management in medical education
Kumar, S., Maini, A., and Horsburgh, J.
Developing Excellence in Medical Education conference (DEMEC) December 2019

The Hidden Curriculum: An Ethnographic Exploration of Students' Perceptions of General Practice
Chan, S.C.C., Mediratta, S., Smith, R., Yuan, J., Gajria, C., Gunning, E., Singh, S., Jones, M., Parekh, R., Kumar, S. & Park, S. 
Society of Academic Primary Care (SAPC), Regional Madingley conference, January 2019  

The Art of Medicine - using humanities to move from knowledge to wisdom
Winning, J. and Thacker, N.
Society of Academic Primary Care (SAPC), Regional Madingley conference, January 2019  

Selected Publications

                                                                                                                                                                                      Moula, Z., Horsburgh, J., Scott, K., Rozier-Hope, T., Kumar, S.                                                                                                                                          BMC Medical Education doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03595-1

                                                                                                Brown, M.E.L., Younie, L.                                                                                                                                                                                            Medical Education doi.org/10.1111/medu.14794

                                            Prendergast M, Kanella I, Milton-Jones H, et al                                                                                                                                                      Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice Published Online First: 07 February 2022. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-322023

                                                                         Brown, MEL, Horsburgh, J. Med Educ. 2022; 56( 1): 14- 16. doi:10.1111/medu.14691

                                                                        Priyesh Agravat, Tafsir Ahmed, Esme Goudie, Shahraz Islam, Douglas GJ McKechnie, Haji Mohamed Abdirahman, Mahnoor Ahmed, Amer Al-Balah, Ayesha Alam, Fahima Amin, Sara Beqiri, Smruthy Chakka, Katy Chisenga, Roshni Goodka, Nida Hafiz, Ankita Kotamarthi, Ayobami Emmanuel Olatunji, Molly V Fyfe, Nina Dutta, Ian Chris McManus, David Harrison and Katherine Woolf BJGPOpen 2021; 5 (3): BJGPO.2021.0023. doi: 10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0023

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Alboksmaty A, Kumar S, Parekh R, Aylin P                                                                                                                                                                    PLoS ONE 16(3): e0248387. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248387

                                                        Thacker, N., Wallis, J., and Winning, J.                                                                                                                                                                              BMJ Journals, Medical Humanities, doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-012127

          Parekh, R., Jones, M.M., Singh, S., Yuan, J.S.J., Chan, S.C.C., Mediratta, S., Smith, R., Gunning, E., Gajria, C., Kumar, S., Park, S.                              BMJ Open, doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049825