Reem Rachel Abraham Receives “Teaching Career Enhancement Award” from the American Physiological Society

Reem Rachel Abraham, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Physiology)
Assistant Professor, Physiology
Melaka Manipal Medical College
Manipal, India

Congratulations to Reem Rachel Abraham (PSG 2007), who recently received a “Teaching Career Enhancement Award” from the American Physiological Society. The year 2008 has been a very busy one for Reem, who attended the 5th Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (APMEC) in Singapore in January, where she presented a paper entitled “Learning approaches of undergraduate medical students to physiology in a Non-PBL (NPBL) and a Partially PBL (PPBL) oriented curriculum.” Reem reports that she has also published the following papers:

Reem Rachel Abraham, K. Ramnarayan, Asha K. Validating the effectiveness of Clinically Oriented Physiology Teaching (COPT) in undergraduate physiology curriculum. BMC Medical Education 8:40, 2008.

Reem Rachel Abraham, K. Ramnarayan ,Vinod Pallath, Sharmila Torke. Students' perceptions of learning environment in an Indian medical school. BMC Medical Education 8:40, 2008.

Reem Rachel Abraham, K. Ramnarayan, Marina Thomas, Vivek A Saoji. Training first year undergraduate medical students for better performance in physiology examinations. South East Asian Journal of Medical Education 2:89-90, 2008.

Sharmila Torke, Subramanya Upadhya, Reem Rachel Abraham, Asha K, K. Ramnarayan. Integrated practical examination: a novel approach to evaluate undergraduate medical students in physiology practices. South East Asian Journal of Medical Education 2:48-54, 2008.

Reem Rachel Abraham, Vinod Pallath, Ganesh Kamath, Asha Kamath, K. Ramnarayan. Learning approaches of undergraduate medical students to physiology in a non-PBL- and partially PBL-oriented curriculum. Advan.Physiol. Edu 32:35-37, 2008.