September 4, 2023 Professor Dr Chandramani Thuraisingham

Professor Dr Chandramani Thuraisingham

Qualification
MBBS
FAFP
FRACGP
MHPE
AM
DRM
PDOH

Designation
Professor of Family Medicine
Head of Department, Family Medicine

Areas of Expertise

  • Teaching and Learning
  • Educational Research
  • Faculty Developmen

Email

[email protected]

Orchid ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4512-4045

Involvement in Conference/Symposium/Faculty Development Activities

  1. IMU ILRF22 IIINOVASI Competition 14-17th November 2022
  2. WONCA World Conference 25th -28th November 2021, Virtual Conference Abu Dhabi
  3. 14th IMEC 22nd February 2021, Virtual Conference, Implementing the IMU Professionalism Education Framework in the MBBS Programme
  4. Family Doctors: Improving Care Management for Patients with Chronic Pain. Presented at WONCA APR Virtual Conference, Auckland, 23rd- 26th April 2020
  5. IMU Learning Resource Festival, 9-10th October 2019
  6. Presented at WONCA Europe 2019 Conference at Bratislava, Slovakia from 26th-29th June 2019
  7. WONCA World Conference at Seoul2018: Facilitator in Workshop engaged in developing international standards for undergraduate medical school curriculum focusing on the delivery of the generalist principles and the role of Family and Community Medicine in healthcare delivery
  8. Challenges Of the Family Physician as A Teacher: Developing a novel curriculum for the 21st century undergraduate medical education in Malaysia. Presented at WONCA APR Conference in Pattaya, Nov 1-4, 2017
  9. Role of the primary care doctor in the care of the elderly in two Orang Asli communities belonging to the Temuan tribe in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Presented at 2nd IMU Cares Humanitarian Mission Conference, Malaysia, 13th July 2017. 1st Prize
  10. Challenges in the Delivery of Personalised Healthcare in Chronic Disease in the Current Malaysian Healthcare System: A General Practitioner’s Perspective. Presented at GP16 in Perth, Australia, 27th Sept -1st October 2016
  11. Some unusual asthma triggers in tropical climes: an evidence-based review. Presented at 3rd Paediatric Allergy & Asthma Meeting (PAAM) 2013, Athens Greece, 17th-19th Oct 2013
  12. Contribution of IMU Nurses to Teaching of Family Medicine. Presented at 8th IMEC 2013, 13th-15th March 2013
  13. Interprofessional Education on Ethics, Professionalism, and the Law: Results of a SWOT Analysis.8th IMEC Conference, Malaysia -13th-15th March 2013
  14. Awareness of the rights of the child: a questionnaire survey. Presented at 15th Ottawa Conference, Malaysia, 9th -13th March 2012

Publications in Health Professions Education

  1. Teng, C. L., Thuraisingham, C., Lee, Y. C., Mahandran, A., Halim, A. A., Tan, E. Y. Y., & Chowdhury, R. N. (2023). Physical inactivity among diabetes patients in Malaysia: protocol of a systematic review of Malaysian studies. https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2023.6.0052.

  2. Thuraisingham, C., Razak, S. A., Nadarajah, V. D., & Mamat, N. H. (2023). Communication skills in primary care settings: aligning student and patient voices. Education for Primary Care, 34(3), 123–130. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2023.2210097.

  3. Thuraisingham, C., Ran, L. T., Pinto, J. T., Anusara, R. J., Xin, P. Y., & Hisham, S. F. B. (2022). Mental Health Status Based on Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21, Brief Resilience Scale, and Satisfaction with Life Scale among Corporate Staff in International Medical University. Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry, 31(1), 19–27. https://doi.org/10.4103/mjp.mjp_5_22.

  4. Ramsay, R., Hegazy, N. N., Thuraisingham, C., Andrades, M., Ng, V., Cabezas-Escobar, C., Mugambi, J., & Wass, V. (2020). Reimagining medical education for primary care in the time of COVID-19: a world view. Education for Primary Care, 32(1), 2–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2020.1851147.

  5. Dowrick, C., Kassai, R., Lam, C. L. K., Lam, R. W., Manning, G., Murphy, J., Ng, C. H., & Thuraisingham, C. (2020). The APEC Digital Hub-WONCA Collaborative Framework on Integration of Mental Health into Primary Care in the Asia Pacific. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, Volume 13, 1693–1704. https://doi.org/10.2147/jmdh.s271070.

  6. Thuraisingham, C., Nalliah, S., & Sinniah, D. (2017). THE CHAPERONE IN A THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP: A CRITICAL DISCUSSION. International Journal of Person Centered Medicine. https://doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v7i1.608.

  7. Thuraisingham, C. (2017). Narrative Medicine: An unexplored perspective in the medical curriculum to enhance patient-centredness and empathy in medical students. International e-Journal of Science, Medicine &Amp; Education, 11(2), 4–13. https://doi.org/10.56026/imu.11.2.4.

  8. Nalliah, S., Ling, S. M., & Thuraisingham, C. (2016). ETHICS OF TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY (TOP) IN MYASTHENIA GRAVIS: a CASE REPORT. International Journal of Person Centered Medicine. https://doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v6i2.516.

  9. Thuraisingham C, Sinniah D. Stiff hands and feet, facial deformities. The Journal of Family Practice. 2016 Feb;65(2):121-124. PMID: 26977463.

  10. Nalliah, S., Thuraisingham, C., & Ong, S. P. (2015). A pilot study to explore if reading fictional works of medical writers can be used as a formative assessment tool in the learning of Humanism and Bioethics: A narrative report. International Journal of Person Centered Medicine, 4(3), 180–188. https://doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v4i3.477.

  11. Thuraisingham C, Nalliah S. The pre-employment medical--ethical dilemmas for GPs. Australian Family Physician. 2013 Apr;42(4):249-251. PMID: 23550254.

  12. Chan SC, Chandramani T, Chen TY, Chong KN, Harbaksh S, Lee TW, Lin HG, Sheikh A, Tan CW, Teoh LC. Audit of hypertension in general practice. Med J Malaysia. 2005 Oct;60(4):475-82. PMID: 16570710.