Both phenomenon and method Is the structured quality of

experience to be studied No beginning, no end. [It is] all

middle… Sequence of events which

actually occurred Peer in narrative research asked

me to write my story

The Landscape of Tanzania, East Africa: My Parents Birthplace

Growing up in Scarborough: Our Home for the past 35 years

Where everyone has an equal opportunity to get educated regardless of background

Where innovation and creativity is highly praised and cultivated

How? We must become Knowledge Workers (Peter Drucker) or better yet, Knowledge Builders in order to partake in the Knowledge Society we live.

Ismaili Jamatkhana Nairobi Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi

Aga Khan Academy Nairobi Ismaili Jamatkhana Mombasa

Muree Hills Aga Khan University

Aga Khan School Garden Ismaili Jamatkhana Karadar

Aga Khan Academy Karimabad Young Professionals I travelled with

Aga Khan School Sherquilla Aga Khan School Gilgit

Prof Gordon MacLeod and Prof Robert Baker reviewing our workAga Khan University- Institute for

Educational Development

AKU-IED Professional Development Center North, Gilgit

IT team at AKU-IED

Supervised by Anatomy Advisory Chair

Objective of the TA Guide was to Gain experience in medical education

Learned all about the field of pre-clinical medical education

Became acquainted with big names in the field like Yvonne Steinhart, Vimla Patel and others

Supervised by Program Director

Becoming familiar with the main pedagogies of Medical Education:› Problem Based

Learning› Evidence-based

Medicine› Bedside Teaching

Attempted design experiments in medical education at UofT› Undergraduate› Graduate – ObGyn and

Family Medicine› Psychiatry CME

Studied the variances in the delivery of PBL

Students identified correct answers despite working with ambiguity, complexity and messiness.

Movement away from:› Teacher guided interactions› Giving selective information so students

always figure out right answer or think there is only one answer

› Time-limited driven discussions› One-person only at-a-time discussions

Movement towards:› Collaboration› Collective problem solving› Complexity and uncertainty seen positively

Sweat Lodge in Thunder Bay

NOSM East in Sudbury Bearskin Airlines to travel in the North

Landscape of the North

Volunteer in different parts of the world Exposure to new cultures and customs Exposure to international NGO’s and their

work Solves the problem when there is no money

for new ideas or ideas have not been proven to cause success yet

Get’s your name out in the field when paid opportunities emerge

Get experience with the ideas affecting the profession

Leading in the knowledge society means becoming a knowledge builder.

Knowledge building should be taught to all learners in every discipline at any point in their life.

Knowledge Building theory and pedagogy holds great merit.

It is something the individual (personal knowledge) and society (community knowledge) can benefit from.