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Institute of Health Sciences Education - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Dr Nimesh Patel

Nimesh

Reader in Medical Education (Assessment) Head of IHSE Assessment Head of Student Selected Components

Email: n.s.patel@qmul.ac.uk

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Nimesh Patel is Reader (Associate Professor) in Medical Education. He leads on all assessment activity within the School of Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences Education. His oversight for assessments primarily covers the 5-year MBBS programme (London and Malta campus), 4-year MBBS graduate entry programme and 2-year MSc Physician Associate Studies.

Nimesh completed his BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology with Extra Mural Year in 2001 at King’s College London. During his Extra Mural Year he spent 16 months in the lab of Prof Christoph Thiemermann at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London. He returned to the William Harvey Research Institute to complete his PhD in acute renal failure in 2005.

He continued as a post-doctoral researcher at the William Harvey Research Institute and was awarded a 3-year career development fellowship in 2011 from Kidney Research UK.

In 2013, Nimesh took on the role of Head of Student Selected Components for the MBBS followed by the Head of Assessments in 2014 and appointed as Senior Lecturer.

He was elected to the Medical Schools Council Assessment Advisory Board in 2018 where he has supported work looking at exam security, reasonable adjustments for exams, and the UK Medical Licencing Assessment (MLA). In 2022 he was appointed to the Medical Schools Council Applied Knowledge Test MLA Exam Board.

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