Mohammed Ahmed Rashid

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | LSHTM · Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Issue: The World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) was established in 1972 and in the five decades that followed, has been the de facto global agency for medical education. Despite this apparently formidable remit, it has received little analysis in the academic literature. Evidence: In this article, we examine the historical context at the t...

Background: In 2012, the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) evaluated and formally recognized the first agency in its Recognition Programme (RP). The RP was developed to review accrediting authorities in response to a 2010 policy by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) to require international medical graduat...

Context Politics is characterised by power relations, and the deployment of power is inescapably political. In an increasingly globalised and interconnected modern world, politics is shaping the field of medical education more than ever before. Global frameworks that classify peoples and places are political tools that are fundamentally shaped by h...

Medical education in Jordan has evolved rapidly in the last 50 years as successive governments and higher education leaders have responded swiftly to developing healthcare sector demands. Despite significant progress being made, there remain a substantial number of challenges for the Jordanian medical education system that require careful attention...

Prescribing medications has traditionally been conceptualised as a technical process and skill in medical education, failing to acknowledge broader social, political, and economic dimensions. Consequently it’s ethical component is often overlooked. Existing educational approaches in medicine have predominantly covered ethics in abstract terms, whic...

University College London (UCL) and Newgiza University (NGU) have been in an academic collaboration since 2016. We describe the introduction of a real-time feedback model for OSCE assessments within this partnership. We developed a workshop for faculty members at UCL and NGU to co-develop OSCE stations for use in final year summative exams at NGU....

Rising global migration levels have led to growing diaspora populations. There has been interest in the role of diaspora healthcare professionals (HCPs) from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in development aid to their origin countries, although there has been comparatively less focus on their educational activities. This study examined the...

Introduction Following India and Pakistan gaining independence from British colonial rule, many doctors from these countries migrated to the UK and supported its fledgling National Health Service (NHS). Although this contribution is now widely celebrated, these doctors often faced hardship and hostility at the time and continue to face discriminati...

Background Like other fields in medicine, medical education relies on collaboration and cooperation between countries and regions of the world, although no single institution or position unifies the global medical education community in the way that the WHO does in public health, for example. Recent research in medical education has drawn attention...

Objective University College London (UCL) and Newgiza University (NGU) have been in an academic collaboration since 2016 to establish undergraduate healthcare programmes in Egypt with an underlying ethos of capacity building and co-development. We explored impacts of pandemic-related travel restrictions on staff across both organisations. Methods...

Objectives: Given that the existing literature on international medical education collaborations is dominated by North American case studies, this study sought to identify and describe such collaborations hosted by UK medical schools. Methods: UK medical school webpages were identified from the General Medical Council (GMC) and were methodically se...

This commentary delves into the theatre and performances of OSCEs. Join us in exploring their 50‐year journey of reinvention and how they continue to hold the stage in medical assessments.

Social media platforms such as Instagram are becoming increasingly popular sources for students to access anatomy educational resources. This review used content analysis to examine posts under the hashtag #anatomynotes and is the first to map the characteristics of anatomy education posts on Instagram and determine any temporal changes. Sample pos...

The authors comment on the need for research to account for how political and power dynamics are embedded in accreditation systems to explore their unintended consequences.

Phenomenon: In 2012, the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) established a recognition programme to evaluate medical school regulatory agencies across the world, in response to a new U.S. accreditation policy. Given the predominantly Western origins and Eastern impacts of the WFME programme, this article deconstructs tensions in the progr...

This is an editorial for the special collection on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for MedEdPublish. In this article, the guest advisors of this collection first reflect on the paradoxes in EDI in health professions education (HPE), then on the importance of recognising the existence of multiple authenticities on the basis of different contex...

A high-performing, integrated, primary healthcare system is essential to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) goals and improve health indicators. There is enough evidence that healthcare is cost-effective with significantly better outcomes in countries where primary care is delivered through trained family physicians. The concept of "Family Pra...

Introduction The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) has been widely used in health professions education since the 1970s. The global disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic restricted in-person assessments and medical educators globally sought alternative means to assess and certify students and trainees to meet the acute demand f...

Background: Prior studies report that most published medical education research is unfunded. We sought to determine the extent and sources of funding for medical education research articles published in leading journals, and how these have changed in the last two decades. Methods: All research articles published in Academic Medicine, Advances in...

OBJECTIVES From 2006, the Ministry of Education in China has approved universities to provide undergraduate medical training in English, targeting fee-paying international students. Students on these courses can face challenges in their clinical training, particularly in the domains of communication and professionalism. This study examines the prop...

The UK general practice model has been described as the 'jewel in the crown' of the National Health Service and is widely respected and emulated around the world. In recent years, there has been a particular interest in the UK approach to primary care medical education, including at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, leading to a number of inte...

Phenomenon: In recent decades, medical education practices developed in Western countries have been widely adopted in non-Western countries. Problem-based Learning (PBL) was first developed in North America and it relies on Western educational and cultural values, thereby raising concerns about its 'lift and shift' to non-Western settings. Approach...

Teaching and training are integral to the different, core roles of a trainee. Therefore, there is a shift in the medical profession towards credentialing teaching and training skills. Postgraduate qualifications in medical education are likely to be more important for professional development. In recent years, the number of medical education awards...

The 2023 State of the Science guest editors (and colleagues) reflect on the many definitions of quality and challenges created for a field that emphasises quality improvement.

Although integrated medical school curricula have been widely adopted and examined, there has been comparatively less attention on the challenges associated with developing integrated assessments. Working with medical schools around the world, we have developed a writing workshop format that unites teachers from different disciplines to produce int...

Purpose: Although health professions education (HPE) scholarship has flourished in recent decades, the influence of HPE journals has received little attention. This study examines the editorial policies and priorities of leading HPE journals. Methods: Fourteen HPE journals with the highest impact factors were reviewed for their editorial aims, s...

Purpose: Globalisation has been hotly debated in recent decades and has seemingly had a profound impact on medical education. This review synthesises the medical education literature using key perspectives from globalisation theory by Holton (Making globalisation). Methods: Holton (Making globalisation) recognised three key perspectives in globa...

Background Although medical school regulation is ubiquitous, the extent to which it should be based on global principles is unclear. In 2010, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) announced that from 2023, overseas doctors would only be eligible for certification to practise in the United States if they had graduated from...

Recognising the growing importance of clinical leadership and entrepreneurship to implement innovative healthcare solutions, final year UK medical students developed a near-peer elective module for first- and second-year students. To date, five cohorts have completed the module and developed skills in the fields of medical technology, quality impro...

Although medical school regulation is ubiquitous, the extent to which it should be based on global principles is unclear. In 2010, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), announced that from 2023, overseas doctors would only be eligible for certification to practise in the United States if they had graduated from a medical...

Background Medical workforce shortages are a major threat to the future of the UK National Health Service (NHS) and countless other healthcare systems globally. Reliance on international medical graduates is likely to continue and may increase, although these doctors face many educational and professional challenges. The Professional and Linguistic...

Purpose Accreditation is widely used by medical schools around the word to evaluate their curricula and educational processes, although its impacts on those involved in the ‘frontline’ of medical education receive little attention. This study systematically identified and synthesised qualitative studies that have explored medical teachers’ and stud...

This article describes the authors' personal experiences of collaborating across international borders in academic research. International collaboration in academic medicine is one of the most important ways by which research and innovation develop globally. However, the intersections among colonialism, academic medicine, and global health research...

In 2010, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) announced that as of 2023, physicians applying to train and practice in the United States will be required to graduate from a medical school that has been accredited using criteria such as those developed by the World Federation for Medical Education. This study analyzed post...

The World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) Recognition Programme was created to ensure the comparability of medical school accrediting agencies, so that the schools accredited by those agencies would have similar educational quality. WFME explicitly values transparency and has recognition criteria that relate to agencies making information p...

Background In recent years, the field of medical education has sought to amplify the voices of those from traditionally marginalised groups and medical education journals have sought to become more accessible and diverse. This study sought to examine the gender and geographical representation of editors and editorial board members in medical educat...

BACKGROUND: In recent years, the field of medical education has sought to amplify the voices of those from traditionally marginalised groups and medical education journals have sought to become more accessible and diverse. This study sought to examine the gender and geographical representation of editors and editorial board members in medical educa...

Generalist clinicians play a vital role as the spine of a modern healthcare system. As a result of the breadth of their practice, they require high quality continuous professional development (CPD) training to keep up with important developments in all areas of their practice. Specialist clinicians are often well placed to provide such training but...

Background The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been proposed as a useful framework to investigate professional behaviour, however, was not yet applied to the evaluation of an educational intervention. This study will address this gap by utilising the TPB to evaluate the effectiveness of an education programme delivered by the professional reg...

Purpose Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) is a worldwide social media movement designed to accelerate and democratise the sharing of medical knowledge. This study sought to investigate the content shared through FOAMed during the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. Study design Tweets containing the #FOAMed hashtag posted during a 24-hour period...

Purpose Transnational faculty development programmes are increasingly popular in medicine, although evaluation of such activities rarely consider longer-term outcomes or the impact of language training. This study attempts to fill this gap by evaluating the lasting impacts of a three-month clinical education and English language training programme...