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Professor Rakesh Patel

Rakesh

Professor of Medical Education and Head of MBBS, Deputy Director Institute of Health Sciences Education, Honorary Consultant Nephrologist

Email: rakesh.patel@qmul.ac.uk
Twitter: @rakeshspatel

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Rakesh Patel is Professor of Medical Education, Head of MBBS, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Health Sciences Education, Queen Mary University of London. Rakesh is the first Head of MBBS at Barts and The London School of Medicine, with overall responsibility for providing leadership and day to day management of the MBBS curriculum, both the 5-year and graduate-entry programme.

Rakesh qualified in Medicine in 2002 at the University of Leicester and he completed his pre-registration and senior house officer training at the University of Leicester NHS Trust. After obtaining his MRCP (London) in 2005, he started higher specialist training in Nephrology and General Internal Medicine on the East Midlands South Rotation in 2006.

He completed a Masters in Medical Education at the University of Dundee in November 2011 and a professional doctorate (MD) in medical education at the University of Leicester in 2012, before undertaking an NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship in Medical Education in 2012-2016. He was appointed Clinical Associate Professor in Medical Education to the University of Nottingham in 2016, where he was Director of the MMedSci in Medical Education and Academic Programme Director for Medical Education.

Rakesh was awarded the ASME New Researcher of the Year in 2011 and the ASME Educator Development Group Award in 2012.  He obtained Senior Fellow of Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy) in 2017.

Rakesh has also held education related roles in the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME), Academy of Medical Educators (AoME), and currently is a member of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Technology-Enhanced Learning Committee. He held external examinerships at the University of Glasgow (Year 3 MBChB) and University of East Anglia (Masters in Clinical Education) and is currently an external examiner at the University of Oxford and Newcastle. He is also a General Medical Council Education Associate and member of the Undergraduate Medicine Accreditation Team.

Clinically, he works at the Royal London Hospital for Barts Health NHS Trust, and prior to that he worked at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust as Honorary Consultant Nephrologist.

 

 

 

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