Medical Education Consulting

Problem-based learning, when designed well, produces clinicians who reason rather than memorise. I help universities, medical schools, and health-professions programmes build and evaluate PBL curricula that achieve exactly that. Drawing on more than three decades as a professor of medical microbiology, a former chairman of department, and a PBL coordinator and assessment committee lead at the Arabian Gulf University, I bring both the pedagogical theory and the hard-won practical experience of running these programmes at scale.

Engagements are available on a fractional basis, structured around your institution's timeline and goals. Typical areas of work include PBL curriculum design and clinical case development, faculty training and facilitator development, programme evaluation and quality assurance, and the design of formative and summative learner assessment frameworks. I also advise on integrating online and hybrid delivery into existing curricula, and on developing new MSc and doctoral programmes from the ground up.

My approach is evidence-based and implementable. I have authored a 551-page textbook on the problem-based learning approach in microbiology, published peer-reviewed work on curriculum reform and on the comparison of online and face-to-face teaching, and trained faculty cohorts in PBL facilitation. The aim is never a curriculum document that sits on a shelf, but a teaching programme your faculty can run and your students benefit from.

If your institution is reviewing its curriculum, launching a new programme, or strengthening its assessment and faculty development, I would welcome a conversation about how I can help.