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Department of Health Professions Education

Bhaikaka University has created a Department of Health Professions Education with effect from 10th October 2020. As the number of medical and allied health sciences institutions is growing by leaps and bounds in India with an increase in the total intake of students for each of them. This has to be supplemented with a number of required teachers, who are trained in the teaching-learning process. To establish and maintain International Standards in Health Professions Education, there is a need to have academic programs in this field in order to generate a workforce of trained teachers in different institutions.

Vision:

Department of Health Professions Education (DOHPE) at Bhaikaka University (BU) will become a leader in developing transformational health professions educators contributing to quality health care in future.

Mission:

- To promote capacity development of health professions educators to demonstrate contextual change in behaviour and practice.

- To provide a platform to create a community of learner sensitive health professions educators who are thought leaders capable of bringing about transformational changes in education system.

- To promote educational research by global networking with relevant stakeholders.

Faculty Members:

Sr. No.	Name of faculty	Designation	Role
1	Dr. Sarmishtha Ghosh Ph.D. (Physiology), MHPE, FAIMER, ESME, AFAMEE, FIUPS, MEF(IAMSE)	Professor, HPE, Department of Health Professions Education ORCID ID	Head
2	Dr. Himanshu Pandya	Dean, Pramukhswami Medical College	Member
3	Dr. Harihara Prakash	Principal, KM Patel Institute of Physiotherapy	Member
4	Dr. Praveen Singh	Professor, Anatomy, Pramukhswami Medical College	Member
5	Dr. Suman Singh	Professor, Microbiology, Pramukhswami Medical College	Member
6	Dr. Jagdish Varma	Professor, Psychiatry, Pramukhswami Medical College	Member
7	Dr. Dinesh Kumar	Professor, Community Medicine, Pramukhswami Medical College	Member
8	Dr. Sonal Chitroda	I/C Principal, CAMIAHST & LPPIMLT	Member
9	Dr. Vyoma Dani	Associate Professor, KM Patel Institute of Physiotherapy	Member
10	Ms. Shany Thomas	Principal, Institute of Nursing Sciences	Member Secretary
11	Dr. Ciraj Ali Mohammad	Head, Medical Education and Professor of Microbiology at College of Medicine and Health Sciences, National University of Science and Technology, Sultanate of Oman	Visiting Faculty
12	Dr Puja Dulloo	Professor & Head of Department of Physiology, PIMSR, Faculty of Medicine, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India	Visiting Faculty
13	Dr Chinmay Shah	Professor & Head of Department, Department of Physiology, Government Medical College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India	Visiting Faculty

Roles & Responsibilities of the Department

♦ Faculty Development & Evaluation
♦ Educational Research & Evaluation
♦ Networking
♦ Services Internal & External
♦ Certificate, Diploma & Masters Courses in HPE
♦ Micro credentialing Modules Online or Blended

CMEs / Workshops / Seminars:

Dates	Title / Event	Organizer	Credit Hours
15th May 2025	Workshop - Sensitizing and Training Faculty to prepare project proposals for conducting educational research
28th February 2025	Workshop - Generating Interactive Content through Principles of Flipped Classroom
27th February 2025	Workshop - Postgraduate students as Teachers
07th and 10th February 2025	Workshop - Leveraging AI tools in enhancing teaching-learning activities for health professions
05th February 2025	Workshop - Postgraduate students as Teachers
10th, 21st, and 25th June 2024	Workshop on Professionalism and Professional Identity Formation
26th April 2024	Capacity building workshop- Student-centred learning Approaches
23rd April 2024	Sensitization session - Artificial intelligence in Health Education
22nd January 2024	Workshop – Residents as Teachers for Phases 1 and 2. Residents
30th May 2023	Importance of Outcome-based medical education & Blueprinting in assessment" – sensitization session	BDIPS, CHARUSAT	N/A
2nd/9th/10th March 2023	Capacity building for Mentors -Teaching faculty of Bhaikaka University colleges- INS, LPP CAM and KMPIP	IQAC, BU	N/A
1st and 3rd February 2023	Case-Based Learning-Case Based Learning- Concept, Process, and Case Writing - Attended by 9 faculty members (6 from PSMC Phase-1 & 3 from Nursing School)	DoHPE	N/A
30th January, 2023	Workshop on Flipped Classroom (FCR) - Attended by 16 faculty members from all phases of the medical program	DoHPE	N/A
5th August 2022	Brainstorming & concept clearing for faculty regarding Student (learner) Centric (centered) Learning (SCL)
21st & 24th June 2022	Improving the quality of written assessment	DoHPE
26th April 2022	Strategies to Ensure Formation of Professional Identity to Develop as Educator, Clinician, and Mentor	Sikkim Manipal University, Online Platform-Zoom	3 Credit Hours Awarded by Sikkim Medical Council

COURSES CONDUCTED:

♦ Ph.D. in Health Professions Education

- 1 enrolled in 2020

- 3 enrolled in 2024

♦ Postgraduate Certificate Course in Health Professions Education (PGCHPE)

- Launched on 14th December 2024 (Orientation conducted) with 35 educators in service in all branches of health professions, enrolled. The 6-month-long course is scheduled to begin in January 2025

♦ Value Added Course - for students

- Effective learning strategies for conceptual learning; Course Lead - Sarmishtha Ghosh

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The department is involved in educational research activities in the following areas

Self-regulated learning skills and metacognitive awareness
Professionalism and Identity Formation- Pathway and factors influencing
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its association with emotional intelligence and anxiety.
Identifying low performers and exploring methods of effective remediation right from the first year of studies in the University.

PUBLICATIONS

Pandya H, Varma J, Ghosh S, Kumar D, Prabhakaran A, and Prakash RH (2025) Workshop on professionalism and professional identity formation for newly recruited faculty at a healthcare university: lessons learnt. Front. Med. 12:1544761. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1544761

Ghosh S. Perspective Chapter: Metacognitive Strategies – Preparing Self-Regulated Learners in the Twenty-First Century [Internet]. Metacognition in Learning - New Perspectives. IntechOpen; 2024. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.114093 Published: 22 January 2024,

Ghosh S. (2024) Interplay of Autonomic Nervous System, Metabolic Disorders, and Psychological Aberrations in Adolescents - A Narrative Review. Acta Neurophysiol 2024, 5(2): 180058.

Ghosh, S. (2024). Cultivating metacognitive awareness in students - What is our role as Physiology educators? . INDIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES, 76(02). (29 June 2024)

Patel, Minal, and Sarmishtha Ghosh.(2024) "Flipping and Engaging: Usefulness of Case-Based Flipped Classroom in Ensuring Conceptual Learning under Competency-Based Medical Education." Medical Research Archives 12.8 (2024).

Dulloo, Puja, Sarmishtha Ghosh, Minal Patel, and Archana Nimbalkar (2024) "Near-peer interactive sessions: a paradigm shift in medical physiology teaching in India.".Med Educ Aug;58(8):1010-1011. doi: 10.1111/medu.15416. Epub 2024 Apr 30

Dharaiya D, Keisham A, Prajapati K, Prabhakaran A, Varma JR, Pandya H. Experience of a Value-Added Course on “Developing Emotional Competencies” at an Indian University. Nat Med J India. [In press].

Pandya, Himanshu, Dongre, Amol, & Varma, Jagdish. (2024). Lessons learned in the development of vision and mission statements. Education for Health. 37. 76-80. 10.62694/efh.2024.21

Pandya H, Dongre A, Ghosh S, Prabhakaran A, Harihara R, Panchal S et al.(2024). Sensitizing nursing faculty about professional formation: exploration of lessons learned at nursing institute in India. Natl Med J India. 37(3);145-148 doi:10.25259/NMJI_705_2023

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

1. The two Value Added Courses (VAC), have been successfully conducted in a blended mode.

a. Effective Learning Strategies for conceptual Learning (Lead - Sarmishtha Ghosh, from 10th May 2023 to 17th June 2023,. Cohort 1 consisted of 7 students from MBBS and Physiotherapy, and all have completed the course, with three students securing grade A and four securing grade B.

b. Reflective Learning (Lead Puja Dulloo) from 20th May 2023 to 1st July 2023. A total of 12 students completed the course.

2. Finalization and approval of the Vision - Mission statement for the Department.

COPYRIGHT:

a. Plan of Teaching English to non-English medium students at entry into medical college (v1.0) office, from Copyright Office, Govt. of India Registration No.: L-132982/2023 dated 13/09/2023

b. Structured questionnaire for feedback from external examiners on the summative examination process. RegistrationNo.: L-147423/2024dated02-05-2024

c. Checklist for Audit of Quality of Questions in Written Assessment. RegistrationNo:L-148169/2024dated27-05-2024

ANNUAL REPORTS:

2022 | 2023 | 2024 |

WEBINARS

The department has initiated Online webinar series to be conducted as part of the Departmental activity, as well as in collaboration with Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry. The webinars are intended to address issues in health professions education and create a community of practice to undertake research through networking.

The two webinars so far have been conducted:

22-5-25 – Students as partners – presented by Dr Marikannan Maharajan, Associate Professor in Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Malaysia, moderated by Sarmishtha Ghosh, Head DoHPE

21-3-25- Qualitative Research in Online Spaces -presented by Dr Amol Dongre, Professor, Community Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, moderated by Sarmishtha Ghosh, Head DoHPE (jointly organized by DoHPE-BU and SMVMCH under Musings in HPE: Towards Enhancement and Evolution of Education)

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