Samy Azer
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Professor Samy A. Azer was born in March 1953. He is an Australian Medical Educator who has made an input to Medical Education internationally.
(1997–1998) and the University of Melbourne
(1999–2006). He is currently Professor of Medical Education and Director of Australian Professional Teaching, Melbourne. 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-doctrol Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Kansas Medical Centre, Kansas, USA, 2005.
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 is 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
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
, the Middle East and other countries.
During 2003 to 2006, he has also introduced PBL to 6 schools in the Eastern Region of Victoria
, Australia
,
Design to senior academics from the following universities and schools:
Also conducted training workshops on Problem-Based Learning or a presented a keynote Lecture at the following International Conferences/meetings:
Academic career
Professor Azer has contributed to Medical Education at the University of SydneyUniversity of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
(1997–1998) and the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
(1999–2006). He is currently Professor of Medical Education and Director of Australian Professional Teaching, Melbourne. He was Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Medical Education Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Universiti Teknologi MARA is a coeducational public university with its main campus located in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.It is the flagship institution of the Universiti Teknologi MARA...
Malaysia, from 2007 to 2009. Prior to this, he had a distinguished career in clinical medicine
Clinical Medicine
Clinical Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal published bimonthly by the Royal College of Physicians. It was established in 1966 as the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was doubly named between 1998 and 2000, and since 2001 it has appeared as Clinical Medicine. Its...
, research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
, and medical education
Medical education
Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or additional training thereafter ....
.
Prior to joining Universiti Teknologi MARA
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Universiti Teknologi MARA is a coeducational public university with its main campus located in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.It is the flagship institution of the Universiti Teknologi MARA...
, he was a Visiting Professor of Medical Education
Medical education
Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or additional training thereafter ....
at the University of Toyama
University of Toyama
The is a Japanese national university established in 1949.- About the University :The University of Toyama is located in Toyama City and Takaoka City in Toyama Prefecture, Japan...
, and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
, from 1999 to 2006, and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical education
Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or additional training thereafter ....
at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
from 1997 to 1998, Post-doctrol Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Kansas Medical Centre, Kansas, USA, 2005.
His clinical work and research was in the area of gastroenterology
Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology is the branch of medicine whereby the digestive system and its disorders are studied. The name is a combination of three Ancient Greek words gaster , enteron , and logos...
and hepatology
Hepatology
Hepatology is the branch of medicine that incorporates the study of liver, gallbladder, biliary tree, and pancreas as well as management of their disorders. Etymologically the word Hepatology is formed of ancient Greek hepar or hepato- meaning ' liver' and suffix -logia meaning 'word' or 'speech'...
and he was awarded a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
in 1995, Master of Education from the University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
in 1993, Fellowship of the American College of Gastroenterology
American College of Gastroenterology
The American College of Gastroenterology is a Bethesda, Maryland-based medical association of gastroenterologists.The association was founded in 1932 and holds annual meetings and regional postgraduate continuing education courses, establishes research grants, and publishes The American Journal of...
in 1998, and Master of Public Health, from the University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
in 2005.
During his career he is 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
Problem-based learning
Problem-based learning is a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject in the context of complex, multifaceted, and realistic problems...
(PBL), Medical Education
Medical education
Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or additional training thereafter ....
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
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, Nursing
Nursing
Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death....
, Physiotherapy, Dentistry
Dentistry
Dentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...
, Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy
Occupational therapy is a discipline that aims to promote health by enabling people to perform meaningful and purposeful activities. Occupational therapists work with individuals who suffer from a mentally, physically, developmentally, and/or emotionally disabling condition by utilizing treatments...
, Speech Pathology, Nutrition
Nutrition
Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....
, Education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, Management and Administration, Business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
, Engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, Leadership
Leadership
Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Other in-depth definitions of leadership have also emerged.-Theories:...
and Law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
. His trainees were from universities in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Malaysia, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, the Middle East and other countries.
During 2003 to 2006, he has also introduced PBL to 6 schools in the Eastern Region of Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
,
Contribution to Higher Education Internationally
Professor Azer has conducted training in Problem Based Learning and CurriculumCurriculum
See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...
Design to senior academics from the following universities and schools:
- University of MelbourneUniversity of MelbourneThe University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
, Australia (School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Physiotherapy and School of Nursing). - University of SydneyUniversity of SydneyThe University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
, Australia (Medicine). - Monash UniversityMonash UniversityMonash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
, Australia (Alfred Hospital, Dietician). - Deakin UniversityDeakin UniversityDeakin University is an Australian public university with nearly 40,000 higher education students in 2010. It receives more than A$600 million in operating revenue annually, and controls more than A$1.3 billion in assets. It received more than A$35 million in research income in 2009 and had 835...
, Australia (School of Nursing). - La Trobe UniversityLa Trobe UniversityLa Trobe University is a multi-campus university in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to become the third oldest university in the state of Victoria. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora; two other major campuses are...
, Australia (School of Health Sciences, School of Human Communication Sciences, Occupational Therapy). - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (Victoria), Australia (Serpell Primary School, Doncaster Gardens PS, Birralee PS, Doncaster Primary School, Templestowe Park Primary School, Doncaster Secondary College).
- Universiti Teknologi MARAUniversiti Teknologi MARAUniversiti Teknologi MARA is a coeducational public university with its main campus located in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.It is the flagship institution of the Universiti Teknologi MARA...
, Malaysia (Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Nursing, Faculty of Engineering, and Faculty of Education, Faculty of Pharmacy) - University of ToyamaUniversity of ToyamaThe is a Japanese national university established in 1949.- About the University :The University of Toyama is located in Toyama City and Takaoka City in Toyama Prefecture, Japan...
, Japan (Medicine). - Universiti Putra MalaysiaUniversiti Putra MalaysiaUniversiti Putra Malaysia , or UPM, is a leading research intensive public university located in central Peninsular Malaysia, close to the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. It was formerly known as Universiti Pertanian Malaysia or Agricultural University of Malaysia...
(UPM), Malaysia (Faculty of Veterinary). - Universiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaUniversiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaThe National University of Malaysia is a public university located in Bangi, Selangor which is about 35 km south of Kuala Lumpur...
(UKM), Malaysia (Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry) - Kaohsiung Medical UniversityKaohsiung Medical UniversityThe Kaohsiung Medical University , originally known as Kaohsiung Medical College, is a private university located in Kaohsiung, Republic of China .-History:...
, Taiwan (Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences) - Cyberjaya University College of Medical SciencesCyberjaya University College of Medical SciencesCyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences is a private university college located in Cyberjaya, Malaysia.-The University:Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences was founded in line with the Malaysian government's aspiration to further improve the healthcare of Malaysians through...
, Malaysia (College of Medicine, College of Nursing, College of Health Sciences). - Universiti Malaysia SabahUniversiti Malaysia SabahUniversiti Malaysia Sabah or UMS is the ninth Malaysian public university located in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia and was established on November 24, 1994...
, Malaysia (School of Medicine, School of Engineering and Information Technology, School of Business and Economics, School of Education and Social Development). - King Saud UniversityKing Saud UniversityKing Saud University is a public university located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was founded in 1957 by King Saud bin Abdul Aziz as Riyadh University, as the first university in the kingdom not dedicated to religious subjects. The university was created to meet the shortage of skilled workers in...
, Saudi Arabia (College of Medicine).
Also conducted training workshops on Problem-Based Learning or a presented a keynote Lecture at the following International Conferences/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].
- OTTAWA Conference [Barcelona, Spain, 2004].
- UKM International Dental Education Symposium, Jan 2009, Hotel Legend, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Kaohsiung Medical University International Conference, 2008.
- Libyan International Medical UniversityLibyan International Medical UniversityThe Libyan International Medical University is a private university established in Benghazi, Libya, with the purpose of teaching medicine. It is the first private medical university in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya...
, 2008. - Saudi Medical Education Society, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Selected works
- Azer, Samy A. (2005). The Liver. An Interactive CD-ROM. Melbourne, University of Melbourne. http://www.eshowcase.unimelb.edu.au/packages/the-liver.
- Azer, Samy A. (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009) EmedicineEMedicineeMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996 by Scott Plantz and Richard Lavely, two medical doctors. The website is searchable by keyword and consists of approximately 6,800 articles, each of which is associated with one of 62 clinical subspecialty textbooks...
. Intestinal perforartion.