SEPTEMBER 29, 2018


Optimizing Health Professions Education with Simulation-Based Learning

WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE-QATAR

Mostafa Elbaba, MBBCH, MSc Pediatrics, MRCPCH, MCCEE, MCCQE, GC, MEd

Mostafa Elbaba

Pediatric Nephrologist & Co-chair of Pediatric Simulation
Hamad General Hospital
Pediatric Section Chair Society for Simulation in Healthcare

Dr Mostafa Elbaba is a pediatrician & pediatric nephrologist. He is graduated originally from Ain Shams University of Egypt in 1989. After training and working in many countries, he is currently based in Qatar since June, 2011 in Hamad Medical Corporation & its affiliated Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar (since 2012).
In medical education science, he has post-graduate certificate (2014) & master degree in medical education (2015) from university of Cincinnati, USA. He developed himself in many other disciplines apart from medicine. Filmmaking and screenwriting are examples of his training away from medicine to enhance the development in healthcare simulation.
Dr Elbaba is invited for a co-chair position of the pediatric simulation committee in Hamad General Hospital in 2016. This is the main program to train the HGH residents through simulation-based education. He boosted significantly the residents’ simulation training within few months through new insight within the committee.
He is a certified healthcare simulation educator (CHSE) since 2015 from the SSH (Society for Simulation in Healthcare). He was selected as one of the members of the CHSE Exam Readiness Review which is a sub-group of the Education Committee of the Society in 2016. In January 2018, he was elected for the leadership position in SSH as a chair of pediatric section of the SSH.
He is the founder of Mobile Pediatric Simulation (MPS). Also he is the owner of many websites for educational purposes that were gathered in 2016 to one educational platform; “The Pediatrics Academy”. He designed and running six e-learning courses up-to-date.
The area of interest of Dr Elbaba is teaching and in particular the simulation-based education in pediatric. He has great contributions mainly as a designer in educational and simulation activities reflected to many posters and talks in conferences as well as high quality simulation workshops and faculty professional development courses. Explore this in this video.
Finally, the e-portfolio of Dr Elbaba is a good portal to explore his profile; please, find it here: www.mostafaelbaba.com