Dr. Muhammad Tariq Earns Award for Excellence in Teaching and Teaching Leadership

Published on July 25, 2022

Dr. Muhammad Tariq
Professor, Department of Medicine; Interim Chair, DED; Interim Associate Dean, Education
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan

Congratulations to Muhammad Tariq (IFI 2009), who is the recipient of the Aga Khan University (AKU) 2021 Award of Excellence in Teaching and Teaching Leadership.

This university-wide award recognizes and rewards exemplary teaching and requires the nominees to demonstrate a significant contribution to teaching and teaching leadership.

Dr. Tariq’s colleagues cited the major impact he has made on medical education at AKU and at the national level, with many other medical colleges adopting and emulating the practices introduced during his tenure at AKU. Nominators noted that Dr. Tariq’s consistent, persistent, and dedicated efforts in education have played a significant part in the enrichment of the educational experience throughout the university.

Dr. Tariq co-led the FAIMER community conversion on clinical reasoning in 2014. He also served as an invited faculty member for FAIMER in 2017, as a Global Faculty Advisor for FAIMER in 2018, and as a Global Faculty Advisor for the FAIMER module on Standard Setting in 2019.

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