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The vital role of the humanities in shaping empathetic communication skills and critical-minded healthcare professionals is explored today with our guest, P. Ravi Shankar, MBBS, MD.
Dr. Shankar, MBBS, MD, currently serves as faculty and program coordinator at the IMU Centre for Education in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) Institutes Scholar and a prolific researcher.
You can learn more about Dr. Shankar’s scholarship here.
We’d like to thank Page S. Morahan, PhD, for recommending Dr. Shankar to us as a fantastic guest for our show! Dr. Morahan is a former guest herself and Professor Emeritus at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. She is also a founding co-director with FAIMER.
You can learn more about FAIMER here, and to catch up on our past episodes with Dr. Morahan, you can do so here:
- Catching up with Page S. Morahan, PhD, Founding Director of ELAM.
- A Faculty Factory reunion with Page S. Morahan, PhD.
To further explore the intersection of the humanities with medical education and navigating the demands of a career in academic medicine we highly recommend listening to our 2021 conversation with Margaret S. Chisolm, MD, FAMEE, FACP, FAA:
Did you know? Rashmi Vyas, MBBS, MD, MHPE, is another past Faculty Factory guest with strong connections to FAIMER, and you can revisit her episodes with us here: