Samy Azer
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Medical career | |
Profession | Physician, professor |
Specialism | Problem-based learning |
Professor Samy A. Azer is an Australian medical educator who has made an input to medical education internationally.
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 and the Chair of Curriculum and Research Unit at King Saud University College of Medicine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[1] He was Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Medical Education Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia,[2] 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 was appointed as Associate Editor of BMC Medical Education, the Editorial Board of MedEDWorld, the UK, 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[3] 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,[4][5]
Qualifications
- M.B., B.Ch.
- MSc (Med.)
- PhD (Med.), Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia (1990–1995; graduated in 1995)
- MEd, University of New South Wales, Australia (1991–1993; graduated in 1993)
- Fellowship of the American College of Gastroenterology, American College of Gastroenterology, USA (elected in 1998)
- M.P.H., University of New South Wales, Australia (1998–2005; graduated in 2005)
Contribution to higher education internationally
Professor Azer has conducted training in Problem Based Learning and curriculum design to senior academics from the following universities and schools:
- University of Melbourne, Australia (School of Medicine)
- University of Melbourne, Australia (School of Dentistry)
- University of Melbourne, Australia (School of Physiotherapy)
- University of Melbourne, Australia (School of Nursing)
- University of Sydney, Australia (Medicine)
- Monash University, Australia (Alfred Hospital, Dietician)
- Deakin University, Australia (School of Nursing)
- La Trobe University, Australia (School of Health Sciences, School of Human Communication Sciences, Occupational Therapy)
- Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Australia (Serpell Primary School, Doncaster Gardens PS, Birralee PS, Doncaster Primary School, Templestowe Park Primary School, Doncaster Secondary College)
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia (Faculty of Medicine)
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia (Faculty of Engineering)
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia (Faculty of Education)
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia (Faculty of Pharmacy)
- University of Toyama, Japan (Medicine)
- Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia (Faculty of Veterinary)
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia (Faculty of Medicine)
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia (Faculty of Dentistry)
- Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan (Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences)
- Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences, Malaysia (College of Medicine)
- Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences, Malaysia (College of Nursing)
- Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences, Malaysia (College of Health Sciences)
- Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia (School of Medicine)
- Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia (School of Engineering and Information Technology)
- Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia (School of Business and Economics)
- Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia (School of Education and Social Development)
- King Saud University, Saudi Arabia (College of Medicine)
- King Saud University, Saudi Arabia (College of Applied Medical Sciences).
- Lund University, Sweden (Speech Pathology, Medicine).
Also conducted training workshops on Problem-Based Learning or a presented a keynote lecture at the following international conferences and meetings:
- The Association for Health Professional Education (ANZAME) [Adelaide, Australia, 2004]
- The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)[Congress de Malaga, Spain, 2009]
- The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) [UK Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre, Glasgow, UK, 2010]
- The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) [Vienna Austria Reed Messe Wien, Vienna, 2011]
- The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)[Incorporating 4th SIFEM conference] [Centre De Congres, Lyon, France, 25 to 29 August 2012]
- The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) [Prague Congress Centre, Prague, Czech Republic, 24–28 August 2013]
- OTTAWA Conference [Barcelona, Spain, 2004]
- UKM International Dental Education Symposium, Hotel Legend, [Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009]
- Kaohsiung Medical University International Conference [Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2008]
- Libyan International Medical University, [Beni Ghazi, Libya, 2008]
- Saudi Medical Education Society [Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2011]
- King Fahd Medical City, Faculty of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 28 March 2011.
- [Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators, Alice Springs Convention Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory (NT), Australia, 27 June to 1 July 2011]
- Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Webiner: Introducing a Problem-Based Learning Curriculum. April 2012.
- National Medical Education Congress VII, arranged by The Association for the Advancement of Medical Education (TEGED) and hosted by Başkent University Faculty of Medicine [Turkey, Ankara, May 2012]
- The International Transplantation Society (TTS), The Educational Committee, USA.
- The World Psychiatry Association Congress, UK
Selected works
- Azer, Samy A. (2006). Core Clinical Cases in Basic Biomedical Science: A Problem-Based Learning ... Hodder-Arnold. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- Azer, Samy A. (2008). Navigating Problem-Based Learning. Sydney: Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- Azer, Samy A. (2005). The Liver. An Interactive CD-ROM. Melbourne, University of Melbourne. .
- Azer, Samy A. (1994). Use and Interpretation of Serum Bile Acids in Hepatic Injury and Disease. PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, 1994. Books.google.com. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- Azer, Samy A. (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009) Emedicine. Intestinal perforartion.
- Azer, Samy A. (2013) Making Sense of Clinical Teaching. Hodder-Arnold, UK.
References
- Azer, Samy. Membership of the International Advisory Board of Kumar and Clark. London: Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier, since 2006.
- Biography. Who's Who in America. Marquis Who's Who Publishing. New Providence, NJ. Volume 1 A-K, 57th Edition, 2003, page 196.
- Biography. Who's Who in the World. Marquis Who's Who Publishing. New Providence, 15th Edition, 1998, page 76.
- Biography. Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare (4th ed.). Marquis Who's Who. 31 July 2008. p. 52. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- Biography. Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Marquis Who's Who Publishing. New Providence.
- Biography. Who's who in Asia and the Pacific nations (4th edition ed.). Marquis Who's Who Publishing. 1999. p. 523. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- Biography. Who's Who in Australia..
- Medical Education Research and Development Unit
- Newspapers in Malaysia
- ↑ "Samy Azer CV". King Saud University. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ "Esophageal Varices". emedicine. 4 January 2010. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
- ↑ "Samy Azer – research profile on BiomedExperts". Biomedexperts.com. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- ↑ Azer, Samy A. (November 2009). "Problem-based learning in the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades: Assessment of students' perceptions". Teaching and Teacher Education (ScienceDirect) 25 (8): 1033–1042. doi:10.1016/j.tate.2009.03.023. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- ↑ "A model for constructing problem-based learning cases for grades five to eight". Innovation in education Jasmine E. Larkley, Viola B. Maynhard. Books.google.com. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
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