Summary
I worked as the Director of Undergraduate Primary Care Education in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London from 2013-2022. I now work as the Associate Dean of Community-Engaged Learning at the University of Leeds and remain a Visiting Professor at Imperial College.
I studied Medicine at King's College London, and have worked as a GP and medical educationalist for two over decades. I have experience across many undergraduate and postgraduate settings and gained a Master's in General Practice (Distinction) from King's College London in 2004.
Prior to joining Imperial, I was at the London Deanery for nearly ten years, holding the position of King's Programme Director and then Quality and Innovation Director. I was listed as one of Pulse magazines GP rising stars and was awarded the Imperial President's Medal for outstanding contribution to teaching in 2016, with my team winning a further 10 President's awards over the past five years. In 2018 my team won the highly coveted national AdvanceHE CATE Excellence in Education award.
At Imperial my team trebled, I led numerous successful bids to support innovative teaching and research projects and revolutionised primary care education at Imperial.
I am the founding Director for the Medical Education Innovation and Research Centre (MEdIC) and collaborated across a wide range key national and international institutions across the five themes of work: Coaching in health and education, Preparation for practice, Professional identity and practice, Digital health and education and Diversity and inclusion. I founded MEdIC's first of its kind Global creative competition for medical students around the world and in 2021 established the national MEdIC medical education MasterClass series.
I have particular interest in socially accountable medical education, students as service learner partners and diversity and inclusion, using the potential of medical education to drive positive and sustainable societal change.
I live in London with my husband and two lively teenage girls.
Publications
Journals
Coster S, Dutta N, Forrest D, et al., 2023, Community action projects: community-engaged quality improvement for medical students, Education for Primary Care, Vol:34, ISSN:1367-8523, Pages:184-191
Sivam V, Brown M, Ahuja N, et al., 2023, The future integrated care workforce, The Clinical Teacher, Vol:20, ISSN:1743-4971
Brown ME, Collin V, Parekh R, et al., 2023, A contextual definition of longitudinal integrated clerkships within the UK and Ireland: a bi-national modified Delphi study, Education for Primary Care, Vol:34, ISSN:1367-8523, Pages:138-151
Parekh R, Maini A, Golding B, et al., 2022, Community-engaged medical education: helping to address child health and social inequality, Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition, Vol:107, ISSN:1743-0585, Pages:397-401
Bharmal S, Dutta N, Engineer N, et al., 2022, Supporting medical students who experience discrimination: perspectives of General Practice tutors in primary care, Education for Primary Care, Vol:33, ISSN:1473-9879, Pages:371-371