Michan Malca Appointed Secretary of Commission on Medical Education

Published on August 1, 2022

Michan Alberto Malca, M.D.
Head of Physiology and Pharmacology Laboratory
Universidad Científica del Sur
Lima, Peru

Congratulations to Michan Malca (PHIL 2008) on his recent appointment as Secretary of the Commission on Medical Education of the Peruvian Association of Medical Schools. In addition to being a FAIMER Institute Fellow, Dr. Malca is a member of the FAIMER Regional Initiative in Latin America (FRILA). He hopes to invite other members of FRILA to participate in the next Peruvian Congress on Medical Education that he is helping to organize in his new role on the Commission.

Dr. Malca is also working to launch a Medical Education Office at his home institution, the Universidad Científica del Sur, and is preparing a paper on the state of the art in simulation in medical education for a local journal.

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