Profession Physician, professor | Name Samy Azer Role Medical Doctor | |
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Books Navigating Problem Based Learning, Core Clinical Cases in Basic Biomedical Science | ||
Specialism Problem-based learning | ||
Intervju med Professor Samy Azer - King Sauds universitet
Samy A. Azer is an Australian physician and medical educator who has made an input to medical education internationally.
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- Intervju med Professor Samy Azer King Sauds universitet
- Academic career
- Qualifications
- Selected works
- References
Academic career
Professor Azer has contributed to medical education at the University of Sydney (1997–1998) and the University of Melbourne (1999–2006). He is Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Curriculum and Research Unit at King Saud University College of Medicine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Medical Education Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia, from 2007 to 2009. Prior to this, he had a distinguished career in clinical medicine, research, and medical education.
Prior to joining Universiti Teknologi MARA, he was a Visiting Professor of Medical Education at the University of Toyama, and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, the University of Melbourne, from 1999 to 2006, and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at the University of Sydney from 1997 to 1998, Post-doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Kansas Medical Centre, Kansas, USA, 1995.
His clinical work and research was in the area of gastroenterology and hepatology and he was awarded a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1995, Master of Education from the University of New South Wales in 1993, Fellowship of the American College of Gastroenterology in 1998, and Master of Public Health, from the University of New South Wales in 2005.
During his career he has been appointed as one of the 6,000 editors of PLOS ONE, one of the editors of MEDICINE Journal, and one of the editors of World Journal of Gastroenterology on the editorial board of the International Journal of Medical Education, the Editorial Board of BMC Medical Education, and the Editorial Board of MedEDWorld, and other journals and joint membership of the policy committee of the ASME, the UK. He is the convener of PBL-SIG, for the Australia and New Zealand Association for Medical Education (ANZAME).
He has published widely in the area of Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Medical Education, and Assessment and has written a number of books on PBL. Over the last 10 years he trained over 1500 academics in the area of Problem-Based Learning. His trainees were from a wide range of disciplines including medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, dentistry, occupational therapy, speech pathology, nutrition, education, management and administration, business, engineering, leadership and law. His trainees were from universities in Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Sweden and other countries.
During 2003 to 2006, he has also introduced PBL to 6 schools in the eastern region of Victoria, Australia,