Sisira Dharmaratne- MBBS, PG Dip MedEd, MA, MDMedEd
- PhD Researcher at Western Sydney University
Sisira Dharmaratne
- MBBS, PG Dip MedEd, MA, MDMedEd
- PhD Researcher at Western Sydney University
Researching impact of place on undergraduate medical training
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Introduction
Sisira Dharmaratne is a specialist in medical education. His long-term reserach interst involves impact of context and place on clinical reasoning and its development in medical students and trainees. He employs a myriad of qualitative reserach techniques to gain insights around this topic. Currently he is reading for a PhD on place and clinical reasoning development.
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Publications (8)
Rationale and aims: Contextual factors are increasingly recognized as having a significant influence on clinical-decision-making. Contextual influences however, are considered ‘less scientific’ or ‘non-clinical’ in the eyes of practicing clinicians, making these matters sensitive issues for discussion. Exploring these contextual influences, therefo...
Background
There is substantial evidence of poor dispensing practices with inadequate packaging and labelling of medicines, and limited advice on their usage in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We examined the labelling and packaging of medicines identified during a survey of 1322 households in six regions of Sri Lanka between 2010 and 2013...
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Contextual factors are increasingly recognized as having a significant influence on clinical decision-making. Understanding how clinical decision-making is influenced by contextual factors is important because those influences are believed to result in non-adherence to evidence-based clinical guidelines. Deliberate self poisoni...
Practice of family medicine and patient centeredness does not get the deserved attention in clinical practice and teaching in Sri Lanka. Non-availability of tools for assessment of patient centeredness deters the process of curricular development and research. The Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS) is a self-administered tool that assess...
Introduction: Selection for basic medical training is highly contextual. The use of cognitive aptitude tests, which commonly supplement measures of prior academic achievement in the selection process of medical schools internationally, is rarely reported from resource-constrained settings in South Asia. We report on the psychometric properties of a...
Developing a Consensus Curriculum in Immunology for Medical Schools in Sri Lanka
Champa Ratnatunga1, Sisira Dharmaratne2, Natkunam Ketheesan3,4
(on behalf of the Med Immunology Undergraduate Teaching Working Group, Sri Lanka)
Department of Microbiology1, Medical Education Unit2, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; School of...
Developing good self-regulated learning (SRL) skills is highly important for medical students, not only to help them to navigate and succeed at their current study, but to support their continuing professional development and lifelong learning once they enter the workplace. A key component of SRL is the ability to reflect on feedback and to use thi...
Medical education should cater to the health needs of a country. This should include an understanding of the cadre requirements of doctors per population.
