Medical Education and Clinical Departments

1. Deliver high-quality clinical courses and clinical training to produce competent graduates

• Ensure effective delivery of all clinical courses (content, teaching activities, and assessments).

• Ensure structured, supervised clinical training and rotations across training sites.

• Develop clinical reasoning, professionalism, communication skills, and patient safety competencies aligned with PLOs.

2. Ensure effective course management and coordination across all clinical specialties

• Coordinate course schedules, rotation plans, and student distribution across departments and sites.

• Standardize course requirements, learning activities, and expected competencies across clinical specialties.

• Ensure consistency in teaching, assessment, and documentation across all clinical courses.

3. Strengthen the clinical learning environment and student support

• Maintain a supportive clinical learning environment that promotes professionalism and safe practice.

• Provide academic advising, mentoring, and early support for students at risk during clinical years.

• Ensure students receive clear orientation, learning guides, and expectations at the start of each course/rotation.

4. Enhance assessment quality, transparency, and feedback in clinical courses

• Align CLOs with assessment tools (OSCE, clinical exams, case presentations, written exams).

• Strengthen workplace-based assessment (Mini-CEX, logbooks, rubrics, direct observation tools).

• Ensure timely, constructive feedback and remediation plans after each assessment activity.

5. Advance teaching excellence and faculty development in clinical education

• Provide continuous faculty development in clinical teaching, assessment, feedback, and mentoring.

• Support clinical instructors in using active learning approaches (CBD, bedside teaching, simulation).

• Encourage adoption of standardized rubrics and best-practice assessment methods across departments.

6. Promote clinical education innovation and scholarship

• Encourage educational innovation projects within clinical courses and training (simulation, CBD, blended learning).

• Support research in medical education and clinically relevant student projects aligned with institutional priorities.

• Use evidence from course reports, KPIs, and benchmarking to guide innovation and improvement.

7. Strengthen partnerships to improve clinical teaching and training quality

• Enhance collaboration with affiliated hospitals and clinical training sites for teaching and supervision.

• Benchmark clinical course delivery and assessment practices with reputable institutions.

• Engage external reviewers and stakeholders (employers, alumni, clinicians) to improve course quality.

8. Implement continuous quality improvement for clinical courses and clinical training

• Coordinate with Statstics unit, Quality Unit and Curriculum development & Study plans unit to conduct annual evaluation of clinical courses (KPIs, CLO achievement, surveys, course reports).

• Implement evidence-based improvement plans and monitor their impact.

• Support periodic comprehensive review (every 5 years – SSRP) and ensure compliance with NCAAA requirements

Faculty Members