Nine doctors write, review and teach the Erudical course. Every one is a practising UK clinician with a real teaching role, from organising medical student curricula and examining to founding teaching conferences. You learn how to teach from people who do it every week.
Live Course Tutors
The tutors who lead the live online day, run the small groups and give you feedback on your teaching.
Dr Kemba Abdul-Hakim
Clinical Fellow in Histopathology, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
BSc
MBA
Kemba is a Clinical Fellow in Histopathology at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, with clinical experience across the United Kingdom and the Caribbean. She holds a BSc in Biochemistry and Zoology and an MBA in Hospital and Health Services Management, and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate medical students and healthcare professionals. She brings leadership and supervisory experience to every session.
Dr Trisha Dhabalia
Internal Medicine Trainee
Internal Medicine Training
PGCert in Medical Education
Trisha is an Internal Medicine Trainee with a postgraduate certificate in medical education. Trisha has organised the internal medicine curriculum for medical students on placement, teaches at the bedside, and supports junior doctors in developing their own teaching on the ward.
Dr Josh Collier
Foundation Doctor and Lead BMA Representative, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust
Teaching Conference Co-founder
UEG Presenter
Josh has a special interest in cardiology and medical education. He was on the founding team of a new cardiology catheterisation laboratory teaching conference in Wigan, and presented his research on chronic pancreatitis at United European Gastroenterology (UEG) this year. As lead BMA representative at his trust, he champions doctors’ access to education and training.
Course Authors
The doctors who wrote the course material, each leading one part of it, and who review it with every cohort.
Dr Zenab China
Course Author: Small-Group Teaching
Small-Group Teaching
Feedback
Zenab has taught medical students for more than four years, from one-to-one tutorials to lecture groups of thirty and more. Zenab wrote much of the course’s small-group teaching material and leads the session on giving feedback to a struggling learner, refining it with every cohort based on what learners found hardest.
Dr Anni Ding
Course Author: Assessment
Assessment
Medical Student Examiner
Anni is a doctor in the North West Thames deanery, a regular examiner for medical students and an experienced small-group teacher who has helped run undergraduate examinations. Anni writes the course’s assessment material: setting questions, marking fairly and designing stations that test what they claim to.
Dr Haroon Ahmed
Course Author and Live Course Tutor: Bedside Teaching
Bedside Teaching
Live Course Tutor
Haroon has built a teaching practice around the bedside and has taught several groups of medical students. Haroon wrote the course’s ward-based teaching section, on teaching well in the few minutes a busy shift allows, and teaches on the live course day.
Dr Katherine Jones
Course Author: Online and Remote Teaching
Online Teaching
Workshop Design
Katherine has taught students online, in person and through workshops for the past three years. Katherine wrote the course’s online and remote teaching material, from holding a room you cannot see to adapting teaching for the screen, and helped design the workshop structure used on the live day.
Dr Zhen Cahilog
Course Author: Course Design
Course Design
Programme Planning
Zhen has tutored medical students and organised large teaching courses for them. Zhen wrote the course-design material, covering how to plan a teaching programme, sequence sessions and run the day itself, and that experience shaped how the Erudical course is structured.
Dr Shani De Soysa
Course Author: Session Structure
Session Structure
Content Review
Shani has years of experience tutoring medical students across a wide range of subjects. Shani contributes to the self-paced online course, especially the material on giving every teaching session a clear beginning, middle and end, and reviews the written course content before each release.
