Profile Summary
I am Physician (UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School), and Pharmacy School trained Pharmacologist / Analytical Chemist, Basic Medical Sciences and Intro to Clinical Medicine Teacher and Medical Education Researcher. My multi-facet profession experience, computer skills and current academic work in a Web 2.0 environment makes my undergraduate medical education , teaching style and work innovative, exciting, cutting edge.
I am a medical education content developer. I have designed, developed, written and presently curate a Web 2.0 undergraduate medical education curriculum that is on par with current U.S. medical school education curricula and includes my preparing basic and clinical medicine teaching content / tool. Its called Imhotep Virtual Medical School, please feel free to do an online search. My focus and expertise, and thus point of departure in the courseware, is in Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics with specialty in Autonomic and Cardiovascular and Introduction to Clinical Medicine. (full CV attached).
I am formerly Director of Office of Medical Education American International School of Medicine-Georgetown, Guyana. Formerly Associate Professor of Basic Medical Sciences and Campus Curriculum Coordinator International University of Health Sciences-School of Medicine-Saint Kitts, West Indies (only PBL Medical School in the Caribbean at the time) I am also an Expert PBL and Case-Based Learning Tutor / Facilitator with a unique integrated fund of knowledge with USMLE Step 1 level proficiency in the “4 P’s”-Physiology, Pathophysiology, Pathology and Pharmacology. Additionally, I established the first BMS Curriculum Driven Introduction to Clinical Medicine-Clinical Skills Center (ICM-CSC) in the West Indies. I am an experienced Medical Web Developer, e-Professor / Online Lecturer and author of several e-articles, e-books, e-magazines (e-Zine), USMLE Tagged Virtual Medical School Courseware.
Presently I work as an Independent Undergraduate Medical Education Consultant and USMLE Tutor.
My undergraduate medical teaching philosophy pivots around horizontal and vertical integration and I am proficient in teaching in both subject-based and systems-based curricula environments.