PLEASE NOTE THE SYMPOSIUM WILL BE HELD ONLINE VIA ZOOM.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH
1:00PM - 5:00PM QATAR TIME


4th Annual Symposium on Optimizing Health Professions Education with Simulation-Based Learning

PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY IN TIMES OF COVID-19

Melih Elcin, MD, MS, CHSE-A

Melih Elcin

Professor of Medical Education
Department of Medical Education & Informatics
Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine
Department of Simulation in Health Sciences
Hacettepe University Graduate School of Health Sciences

Melih Elcin is Professor of Medical Education. He is currently head of the Department of Medical Education & Informatics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, and founding head of the Department of Simulation in Health Sciences, Hacettepe University Graduate School of Health Sciences. He is the program director of MS and PhD of Medical Education, and MS and online MS of Simulation in Health Sciences. He is the president of Turkish Association for Medical Education.  He is an active member of ASPE, SSH and SESAM. He is the chair of SP SIG at Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine. He is a certified healthcare simulation educator - advanced (CHSE-A).  He is the recipient of 2019 ASPE Outstanding SP Educator Award. His areas of interest are program development, evaluation, clinical & communication skills training, standardized patients, interprofessional education, patient and healthcare worker safety, and medical humanities. He has over 50 peer-reviewed papers in those fields:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melih_Elcin/publications