Samy Azer

Professor Azer has contributed to medical education at the University of Sydney (1997–1998) and the University of Melbourne (1999–2006). He is Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Curriculum and Research Unit at King Saud University College of Medicine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.{{cite web | url=http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/sazer/cv | title=Samy Azer CV | work=King Saud University | access-date=30 March 2015}} He was Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Medical Education Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia,{{cite web|url=http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/175248-overview|title=Esophageal Varices|date=4 January 2010|work=emedicine|access-date=11 April 2010}} from 2007 to 2009. Prior to this, he had a distinguished career in clinical medicine, research, and medical education.

Prior to joining Universiti Teknologi MARA, he was a Visiting Professor of Medical Education at the University of Toyama, and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, the University of Melbourne, from 1999 to 2006, and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at the University of Sydney from 1997 to 1998, Post-doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Kansas Medical Centre, Kansas, USA, 1995.

His clinical work and research was in the area of gastroenterology and hepatology and he was awarded a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1995, Master of Education from the University of New South Wales in 1993, Fellowship of the American College of Gastroenterology in 1998, and Master of Public Health, from the University of New South Wales in 2005.

During his career he was appointed as an editor at PLOS ONE,{{cite web|url=http://journals.plos.org/plosone/static/editorial-board#|title=PLOS ONE: accelerating the publication of peer-reviewed science}} the MEDICINE Journal, and the World Journal of Gastroenterology. He was also on the editorial board of the International Journal of Medical Education, BMC Medical Education, and the Editorial Board of MedEDWorld, as well as other journals and joint membership of the policy committee of the ASME, the UK. He is the convener of PBL-SIG, for the Australia and New Zealand Association for Medical Education (ANZAME).

He has published widely in the area of Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Medical Education,{{cite web|url=http://www.biomedexperts.com/Profile.bme/63722/Samy_A_Azer |title=Samy Azer – research profile on BiomedExperts |publisher=Biomedexperts.com |access-date=14 April 2010}} and Assessment and has written a number of books on PBL. Over the last 10 years{{when|date=January 2012}} he trained over 1500 academics in the area of Problem-Based Learning. His trainees were from a wide range of disciplines including medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, dentistry, occupational therapy, speech pathology, nutrition, education, management and administration, business, engineering, leadership and law. His trainees were from universities in Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Sweden and other countries.

During 2003 to 2006, he has also introduced PBL to 6 schools in the eastern region of Victoria, Australia,{{cite journal|journal=Teaching and Teacher Education |title=Problem-based learning in the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades: Assessment of students' perceptions |volume=25 | issue=8 |first=Samy A. |last=Azer |date=November 2009 |pages=1033–1042 |doi=10.1016/j.tate.2009.03.023 }}{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RtfgmsFEBXIC&q=samy+azer&pg=PA127 |title=Innovation in education Jasmine E. Larkley, Viola B. Maynhard |chapter=A model for constructing problem-based learning cases for grades five to eight |isbn=9781604562750 |access-date=14 April 2010|last1=Larkley |first1=Jasmine E. |last2=Maynhard |first2=Viola B. |year=2008 |publisher=Nova Publishers }}

• M.B., B.Ch. Faculty of Medicine (1971-1977)
• MSc (Med.)
• PhD (Med.), Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia (1990–1995; graduated in 1995)
• MEd, University of New South Wales, Australia (1991–1993; graduated in 1993)
• Fellowship of the American College of Gastroenterology, American College of Gastroenterology, USA (elected in 1998)
• M.P.H., University of New South Wales, Australia (1998–2005; graduated in 2005)

• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X0p1HQAACAAJ&q=azer+samy |title=Core Clinical Cases in Basic Biomedical Science: A Problem-Based Learning ... |first=Samy A. |last=Azer |publisher=Hodder-Arnold |year=2006 |access-date=14 April 2010|isbn=9780340816714 }}
• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OmoKfDcCIk0C&q=azer+samy |title=Navigating Problem-Based Learning |first=Samy A. |last=Azer |publisher=Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier |location=Sydney|year=2008 |access-date=14 April 2010|isbn=9780729538275 }}
• {{cite web|last=Azer|first= Samy A. |year=2005|title= The Liver. An Interactive CD-ROM Melbourne, University of Melbourne |url=http://www.eshowcase.unimelb.edu.au/packages/the-liver}}.
• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lol-NAAACAAJ&q=azer+samy |title=Use and Interpretation of Serum Bile Acids in Hepatic Injury and Disease. PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, 1994 |first=Samy A. |last=Azer |year=1994 |access-date=14 April 2010}}
• Azer, Samy A. (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009) Emedicine. [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/195537-overview Intestinal perforartion.]
• Azer, Samy A. (2013) Making Sense of Clinical Teaching. Hodder-Arnold, UK.

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• [http://medicine.uitm.edu.my/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=160&Itemid=112 Medical Education Research and Development Unit]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724070805/http://smkaj.net/v2/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=53 Newspapers in Malaysia]

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