Faculty
Dr. Alasdair Nazerali-Maitland
Dr. Alasdair Nazerali-Maitland
Clinical Associate Professor
| University or Institution | Degree | Subject Area | Dates | |
| Maastrict University, Netherlands | MHPE | Masters of Health Professionals Education (Masters in Medical Education done with part instruction/part correspondence via CHES (Centre of Health Education Scholarship) in Vancouver, British Columbia. 2014-2016) | 2014 – 2016 | |
| University of London | MBBS | Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery | 2003 – 2008 | |
Continuing Education or Training
| University or Institution | Rank or Title | Dates |
| University of Calgary | Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training | 2015/03- 2015/05
2016/02 – 2016/09 |
| Centre of Health Education Scholarship | Clinical Education Fellowship | 2014/07 – 2016/06 |
| University of Calgary | Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training | 2013/07 – 2014/06 |
| Queen’s University, Kingston General Hospital, Canada | Internal Medicine Residency | 2010/07 – 2013/06 |
Continuing Medical Education
| Institution / Organization | Dates |
| Chair – Northern Health Critical Care Retreat
Curriculum lead and session organizer for Northern Health Annual Critical Care Retreat that includes post-intra pandemic response, review of cardiac care services, review of trauma and review of undergraduate and postgraduate practices. |
February 2021, September 2021 |
| UBC SoEL (Scholarship of Educational Leadership) Program Cohort – Leadership training for the implementation of effective and efficient, strategically-aligned, research-informed, and evidence-based curricula and pedagogical practices in order to enhance high engagement student learning experiences and university status in regional, national or international rankings | May – September 2020 |
| UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre) Comprehensive ECMO Training Course – simulation time, and hands-on workshop designed for ELSO Guidelines for Training and Continuing Education for adult Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation Specialists. | April 2018 |
| UBC Medicine Education Leaders Program – a joint project between the Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES) and the Office of Faculty Development in the Faculty of Medicine. Aimed to develop leadership/education skills to direct the education of the next generation of care providers across the province. Composed of educational leadership, pedagogical foundation and cohort formation. | January – July 2018 |
Professional Qualifications
| 1 | Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada – FRCPC – Internal Medicine: Royal College certification completed 2014 – Specialist in Internal Medicine |
| 2 | MCCEE – Medical Council of Canada Evaluating Examination |
| 3 | MCCQE1 – Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination 1 |
| 4 | MCCQE2 – Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination 2 |
| 5 | MRCP (UK) – Member of the Royal College of Physicians United Kingdom |
| 6 | FRCPC – Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada – Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine |
| 1. | REFEREED PUBLICATIONS |
| (a) | Journals |
| Nazerali A. “Defining Moments”. Canadian Medical Association Journal. DOI:10.1503/cmaj.109-3063. | |
| Chan B, Nazerali-Maitland A, Hopman W, Zelt D, Morton R. Less is more: a rationalization of daily labwork. Can Med Educ J. 2018;9(4):e135‐e137. Published 2018 Nov 12. | |
| Nazerali-Maitland A, Holden R, Jones A, Cardoso J, Levido K, Douglas C. Adapting Clinical Skills Volunteer Patient Recruitment and Retention During COVID-19. Can Med Educ J 2021. Accepted for publication February 09, 2021 | |
| Holden R, Hurlburt A, Nazerali-Maitland A, Stasiuk S, Jones A, Shah A, Douglas C. COntinuing Viable In-person Delivery of EDucation Study: COVID-ED. BCMJ – Pending Publication/issue – 2021 | |
| 2. | NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS |
| (b) | Conference Proceedings |
| o Abstracts | |
| Nazerali A. “The Use of Lamb’s Chests in Chest Drain Insertion Simulation”. CHEST. Meeting abstract. doi: 10.1378/chest.1080094. Chest October 2011 vol. 140 no. 4 Meeting Abstracts 1026A. | |
| Nazerali-Lorenzon., S, & Nazerali-Maitland., A. Multiple Modality Simulation Chest Tube Insertion – Is More Learning Always Better? Chest. 2015;148(4_MeetingAbstracts):466A.doi:10.1378/chest.2215910 | |
| O Negative Blood – Experiences from a Medical Education Teaching Rotation
Hickey, H. (2020). Dedicated Poster Abstracts. Canadian Medical Education Journal, 11(2), e155-e274. https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.70106 |
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| UBC Ultrasound Curriculum – The Early Introduction of Ultrasound in Undergraduate Medicine
Hickey, H. (2020). Dedicated Poster Abstracts. Canadian Medical Education Journal, 11(2), e155-e274. https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.70106 |
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| Abstracts Videos – participation in Dean’s Video – as actor – https://vision.med.ubc.ca/meet-the-cast/Presentations |
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| 8. | WORK SUBMITTED (including publisher and date of submission) |
| Nazerali-Maitland, A. Nimmon, L. , Douglas, C. Challenges with IMG Selection: Positive Predictive Attributes that Predict Success. CEBM, 2021. Publication Date Pending | |
| 9. | WORK IN PROGRESS
(including degree of completion) |
| a) | EIUUM – Early Introduction of Ultrasound in Clinical Medicine – on hold during COVID19 Pandemic |
| b) | Volunteer Patient Participation Study – on hold during COVID 19 Pandemic |
AWARDS
Awards for Teaching (indicate name of award, awarding organizations, date)
| 1 | 2014 – University of Calgary Associate Dean’s Letter of Excellence for Course 3 |
| 2 | 2014 – University of Calgary Course 3 Bronze level teaching award – For contribution of 15+ hours of undergraduate teaching |
| 3 | 2013 – Professional association of Interns and Residents of Ontario – PAIRO Postgraduate Resident Teaching Award for Queens University – Runner up. |
| 4 | 2013 – Queen’s University Undergraduate Teaching Award – Nominated |
(b) Awards for Scholarship (indicate name of award, awarding organizations, date)
(c) Awards for Service (indicate name of award, awarding organizations, date)
| 1 | 5 Year Service Award – 2020 – Vancouver Coastal Health |
| Grant award | Topic | Amount | Date |
| Specialist, Sub-speciality, Indigenous SPIFI/ PG Continuing Medical Education | Pandemic Response/ Annual Critical Care Educational Symposium | $18,000 annually | 2020 onwards |
| Facility Engagement Medical Society/ Norther Health Authority | Acute Care Multi-disciplinary Simulation training | $16,000 annually | 2020 onwards |
| Regional Resource Access Committee/ UBC | Oral Case Presentation Workshop | $5000 annually | 2017 onwards |
(a) Areas of special interest and accomplishments
| 1 | Invited HonouraryLectures | St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, England, October 29, 2014. May 2019 | A 5 Minute Approach to Undifferentiated Shock at the bedside: A 60 minute lecture covering an approach to the physical examination and management of a patient with undifferentiated shock. |
| Area of teaching interest | Dates |
| Dean’s vision video, participation in Panel discussion – VGH – Chosen to be a featured physician / member of the Dean’s Vision video. Featured panelist for discussion on lessons learned, what to convey to next generation of physicians. | February 2020 |
| IMG Selection and collaboration with Postgrad – Since completion of Masters work/thesis, there has been ongoing collaboration and work with Department of Family Medicine (Drs Mark Mackenzie, Joanna Bates) on sharing key findings, positive/negative attributes about IMG trainees who match to family medicine. | 2017 – ongoing |
| Postgraduate Medical Education – Multiple additional collaborations with a variety of postgraduate residency training programs to introduce teaching opportunities for POCUS rotation at VGH. Ultrasound scanning club collaboration, collaboration with donors to receive funds to award resident teaching award. | 2017 – ongoing |
| Medical Education Elective rotation – creation of a teaching elective approved at postgraduate level for residents from Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, OBS/GYN, Physical Medicine and Rehab, Public Health | 2017- ongoing |
| Undergraduate Medical Education – multiple new teaching sessions including collaborations with clinical decision making. New sessions include:
i) Oral Case Presentations ii) Clinical Skills Integration – problem list formation, CDM and case writing workshop with admission notes iii) Enhanced Skills sessions – used to integrate histories, physicals and clinical decision making and centred around patient presentations/approaches iv) Petitioning for a new fee code at Canadian Medical Protection Association dedicated for those who devote their time to teaching- specifically for our retirees who want to stay teaching. This involved creating a position statement, evidence, calling representatives). This is now formally recognized as fee code Type of work 7 v) Development of an awards day, combined with an existing volunteer patient appreciation party to recognize outstanding contributions to clinical skills teaching. Fundraising and recognition processes in clinical skills were non-existent prior to that – speeches, lunch and a handing out of the awards by the Regional Associate Dean. vi) Development of a clinical skills emeritus position for retired physicians in Paediatrics who were still in search of teaching opportunities – this is an honorarium program used to recognize outstanding teachers |
2016 – ongoing |
Courses Taught at UBC
| Courses taught | Dates |
| Ultrasound faculty workshop – development of an ultrasound training evening to teach community preceptors about undergraduate ultrasound sessions – Northern Medical Program and Vancouver Fraser Medical Program | March 2019 |
| Introduction to Clinical Experiences Lectures – lecture series introducing clinical skills curriculum to year 1 and 2 students demonstrating integration of histories, physicals, dos and don’ts in the hospital, Personal Protective Equipment | 2018 – present |
Students supervised
| University, Company or Organization | Name, Level of training | Project | Date/Year |
| UBC – Undergraduate Medical Education -(UGME) – FLEX (Flexible learning experience) | Valeriya Zaborska CC3 | Dictation Guides for CSI | 2020 |
| UBC – UGME – FLEX | Michelle Ou, CC4 | Cranial Nerve Palsays | 2019-20 |
| UBC – PostGraduate Medical Education Elective Rotation | Mihailo Veljovic, IM R3 | Image acquisition project | 2019-20 |
| UBC – UGME – FLEX | Alanna Roberts, CC4 | Developmental Paediatrics module | 2018 |
| UBC – UGME – FLEX | Adam Min, CC4 | Oral Case presentation module | 2018 |
| UBC – UGME – FLEX | Bethany Jiang, CC4 | Role Playing in Cardio/GI and Resp cases | 2018 |
| UBC – UGME – FLEX | Jeff Yim, CC4 | Problem list formation | 2018 |
| UBC – UGME – FLEX | Emily Ryan, CC4 | Pelvic Exam Module | 2018 |
| UBC – UGME – FLEX | Angelina Marinkovic, CC4 | EIUUM initial project | 2018 |
| UBC – PGME – Med Ed Elective Rotation | Claire Campion Wright, IM R3 | Respirology revamp | 2017-18 |
| UBC – PGME – Med Ed Elective Rotation | Robert Schmidt, IM R3 | GI revamp | 2017-18 |