Publications by authors named "Zakia Arfeen"
Reliance on migrant healthcare workers in the United Kingdom: A critical discourse analysis.
PLOS Glob Public Health
September 2025
The UK National Health Service (NHS) has relied on Migrant Healthcare workers (M-HCWs) since its inception. These M-HCWs have typically come from Low and Middle-Income countries (LMICs) and particularly, countries that were previously under British colonial rule. Despite this, medical workforce shortages persist in the NHS and there has been a lack of policy consensus about how best to ameliorate it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Future doctors will need to adapt to the impact on health caused by the changing climate, whilst developing more sustainable practices to decrease the burden of healthcare on the environment. Planetary Health (PH) is emerging as a crucial subject area in medical education. This systematic review synthesises evidence on integrating PH into medical school curricula globally, focusing on experiences of medical students and educators.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUniversity College London (UCL) and Newgiza University (NGU) have been in an academic collaboration since 2016. We describe the introduction of a real-time feedback model for OSCE assessments within this partnership. We developed a workshop for faculty members at UCL and NGU to co-develop OSCE stations for use in final year summative exams at NGU.
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- After India and Pakistan became independent, many doctors from these countries moved to the UK to help with their healthcare system, the NHS, but they often faced unfair treatment and racism.
- This study looked at how these doctors, called IPIMGs, were talked about in articles from 1960 to 1980, using special methods to understand the power dynamics in these discussions.
- The findings showed that while some saw these doctors as valuable, others treated them as just 'cheap labor' and believed they should be grateful to work in the UK, highlighting ongoing issues of discrimination they still face today.
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- University College London and Newgiza University have been working together since 2016 to create healthcare programs in Egypt, but the pandemic made it hard for staff to travel.
- They interviewed 30 staff members to understand how the travel restrictions affected their work and found that despite the challenges, the staff adapted well and kept the programs running smoothly.
- The study concluded that travel limitations affect international partnerships, but both universities managed to cope, and future collaborations should use a mix of online and in-person interactions.
Editing the editors: Aims and priorities of health professions education journals.
Med Teach
February 2023
Purpose: Although health professions education (HPE) scholarship has flourished in recent decades, the influence of HPE journals has received little attention. This study examines the editorial policies and priorities of leading HPE journals.
Methods: Fourteen HPE journals with the highest impact factors were reviewed for their editorial aims, scope, intended readership, and priority topic areas.
In 2010, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) announced that as of 2023, physicians applying to train and practice in the United States will be required to graduate from a medical school that has been accredited using criteria such as those developed by the World Federation for Medical Education. This study analyzed posts on the Student Doctor Network (SDN) online forum that refer to this accreditation requirement to investigate how it has been perceived and understood by current and prospective medical students. A keyword search of relevant terms was used to identify posts discussing the accreditation requirement on the SDN online forum, which were subjected to thematic analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Accreditation is widely used by medical schools around the word to evaluate their curricula and educational processes, although its impacts on those involved in the 'frontline' of medical education receive little attention. This study systematically identified and synthesised qualitative studies that have explored medical teachers' and students' experiences of accreditation.
Methods: Four databases (Pubmed, EMBASE, ERIC, and PsychINFO) were searched for relevant published articles.
Public availability of information from WFME-recognized accreditation agencies.
Hum Resour Health
June 2021
The World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) Recognition Programme was created to ensure the comparability of medical school accrediting agencies, so that the schools accredited by those agencies would have similar educational quality. WFME explicitly values transparency and has recognition criteria that relate to agencies making information publicly available. Our study examined 20 WFME-recognized agencies' transparency by reviewing agency websites for 27 information elements related to accreditation standards, procedures, and processes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) is a worldwide social media movement designed to accelerate and democratise the sharing of medical knowledge. This study sought to investigate the content shared through FOAMed during the emerging COVID-19 pandemic.
Study Design: Tweets containing the #FOAMed hashtag posted during a 24-hour period in April 2020 were studied.