Anshu

Dr Anshu, MD, DNB, MNAMS, MHPE, is a graduate and postgraduate from Government Medical College, Nagpur. Her interests are in oncopathology, cytology, and medical education. In 2002-03, she trained in Oncopathology and Cytology at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. She was awarded a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship in 2007 at Guy’s Hospital and St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, United Kingdom to train in cervical cancer screening and liquid based cytology. She is an Executive Member of the Indian Academy of Cytologists. She was on the Editorial Advisory Board of the British journal Cytopathology from 2007-2014 and is now on the National Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology and the Journal of Cytology. Dr. Anshu has more than 50 publications in indexed, peer-reviewed journals in pathology and medical education. She has also presented her work at several scientific conferences, both in India and abroad.

Dr. Anshu is a key member of the MGIMS medical education unit. She has been awarded a CMCL-FAIMER Fellowship from Ludhiana (2007) and a Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) Institute Fellowship from Philadelphia (2009). She is a faculty member and resource person at all three Indian FAIMER Regional Institutes—CMCL-FAIMER, Ludhiana; GSMC-FAIMER, Mumbai; and PSG-FAIMER, Coimbatore. Dr. Anshu is also a resource person for the advanced medical education workshops conducted each year by the Medical Education Department of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Pune. She is on the Board of Studies for Medical Education at MUHS. She has also written three WFME-FAIMER distance learning modules for the Open University Centre for Education in Medicine (OUCEM), UK. She edited a book along with Dr Tejinder Singh titled ‘Principles of Assessment in Medical Education’. She has been invited as guest speaker and resource person for several national and regional medical education conferences and workshops. In 2012, Dr Anshu was awarded the International Fellowship in Medical Education (IFME) from FAIMER, USA. In 2014, she completed her Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPE) from Maastricht University with distinction.