School of Education

We are delighted to announce that Dr Rodolfo Farfan has recently been appointed as Deputy Minister of Comprehensive Health Care in Ecuador. Rodolfo recently completed his doctorate in the School of Education under the supervision of Professor Michael Osborne, submitting a thesis entitled, Resident-as-Teacher workshop impact on Intensive Care Medicine Residents’ perception of their teaching skills. He is a surgeon and has been Chief of Medical Education at Hospital Luis Vernaza in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where he oversees the medical training of twelve specialisation programs and the continuing medical education program for the Hospital’s medical staff. We offer our congratulations to Rodolfo on this appointment, and wish him well in his work with its very special challenges during this time of COVID-19.

 

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First published: 24 November 2020