Meet one of our newest members, Dr. Sisira Dharmaratne MBBS MA MD (MedED)

I am a board-certified specialist in Medical Education from Sri Lanka with international experience in teaching, research, and medical education leadership. I am committed to lifelong learning and hence currently pursuing a PhD in Medicine at Western Sydney University, Australia. My PhD focuses on the impact of place on the development of clinical reasoning skills. Hence, social accountability in medical education and equity in healthcare are central to my scholarly work.

As an educationist, I am passionate about preparing graduates for future learning by creating enabling learning environments to support student-centred, self-regulated and clinically integrated learning. My current approach to clinically integrated teaching and research in medically underserved contexts is backed by two decades of primary care and hospital-based experiences as a medical practitioner in multicultural, rural, and urban LMIC contexts.

ANZAHPE is well known to global Medical Education community through its renowned members who are global leaders in Medical Education. It is a great platform for scholarly conversations and developing networks and collaborations for academic work and educational scholarship. I look forward to contributing to and learning from the discourses at ANZAHPE forums on evidence-informed academic and research practices grounded in various Australian and international contexts.