Satendra Singh, MD

Experience

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  Health Humanities Group, UCMS, University of Delhi

  Apr 2009 - now

  Co-founder

  The University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, strives to engage its medical students, and the teaching and non-teaching staff, with the Humanities. The Medical Education Unit formed the ‘Medical Humanities Group’ (MHG) on 1st April 2009. The reason for its genesis was our belief that medical students in India are focused from an early age on science subjects; dissociation from the humanities stream results in an unbalanced world-view. With the ever-expanding curriculum in medical education, students end up being actively trained in the core curriculum of diagnostics and therapeutics while soft skills like communication, empathy and ethics lag behind. The latter are learned informally from peers and role models, if ever.The MHG at UCMS has used a variety of interventions like Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, disability advocacy, reflective student narratives, poetry, film, literature, street theater, and graphic medicine to help health professionals explore health and illness from multiple perspectives, that of the health care-provider and of the health seeker. Show less

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  University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital

  Jun 2011 - now

  Founding Co-ordinator, Enabling Unit, Equal Opportunity Cell

  The Enabling Unit of UCMS ensures affirmative action’s concerning persons with disability.

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  Research & Humanities in Medical Education (www.rhime.in)

  Apr 2014 - now

  Deputy Editor In Chief

  Research & Humanities in Medical Education (RHiME) is the flagship journal of Medical Humanities Group, University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, India. RHiME is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal devoted to the Humanities in Medical Education and can be accessed at www.rhime.in.

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  University College of Medical Science & Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital

  Jul 2015 - now

  • Director Professor

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Professor

    Jul 2015 - Jul 2022
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  Delhi Medical Council - India

  Dec 2015 - Jan 2020

  Executive Member

  Delhi Medical Council, a Statutory Body constituted in Septmber 1998, as a result of enactment of Delhi Medical Council Act, 1997 by the Government of NCT of Delhi. Delhi Medical Council is vested with powers, duties and function of regulating the practice of Modern Scientific System of Medicine in the NCT of Delhi

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  Medical Education Unit, UCMS

  Jan 2016 - Oct 2017

  Co-coordinator

  The mandate to this MEU, excerpted from the recommendations of the MCI (1996), defines eight tasks: Faculty Development Research in Medical Education Development of a Resource Center Continuing Medical Education Policy Development Developing Systems of Assessment Developing Communication Links Developing and implementing Instructional Design

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  The Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence

  Jan 2019 - now

  International Scholar

  Physicians around the globe are committed to the doctor-patient relationship and excellent clinical care. In 2017, the Bucksbaum Institute established an International Scholar Program. Every one or two years, the Bucksbaum Institute will recognize one physician who has demonstrated expertise in the doctor-patient relationship, shared decision-making, and other issues that are central to the Institute’s mission by appointing him/her as a Bucksbaum Institute International Scholar. This senior-level/master clinician will work with the Bucksbaum Institute on a collaborative initiative, as well as participate in a summer program in Chicago. Dr Singh was selected as the second International Schilar in 2019 Show less

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  MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago

  Jul 2019 - Jun 2020

  International Fellow

  The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago offers the oldest, largest, and most successful clinical ethics fellowship in the world. Dr. Mark Siegler, the Founding Director of the MacLean Center, created the first clinical ethics fellowship in the nation in 1981. Since then, the MacLean Center faculty members have trained more than 500 fellows, and Dr Singh was the first Indian to be selected for this fellowship.

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  Docs With Disabilities Initiative

  Jan 2021 - now

  Co-Chair, International Council for Disability Inclusion in Medical Education

  AIM of the CouncilYear 1: Produce a document on shared principles about supporting qualified disabled individuals in the medical profession. Year 2: Develop a template for sharing examples of reasonable accommodations and adjustments as potential ideas to support learners internationally. These would serve as a ‘bank’ of examples to help organizations and institutions implement these for individuals. Year 3: Revisit the existing guidance in lieu of new literature and evidence-based research and would incorporate these findings into a new framework for disability inclusion in medicine to be used by the research community and in institutional application. Show less

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  National Human Rights Commission of India

  Oct 2021 - now

  Core Group Member, Disability