{"id":5060,"date":"2023-04-19T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intealth.org\/storytellers\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:19:55","slug":"faimer-fellowship-helps-mauritius-educator-turn-weaknesses-into-strengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intealth.org\/storytellers\/2023\/04\/19\/faimer-fellowship-helps-mauritius-educator-turn-weaknesses-into-strengths\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIMER Fellowship Helps Mauritius Educator Turn Weaknesses into Strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Bibi Sumera Keenoo describes herself as an outside-the-box thinker. As an introvert and the most junior faculty member (during the COVID-19 pandemic) of the University of Mauritius Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, she found it challenging to express her novel ideas and gain the support of senior faculty. Her fellowship with Ain Shams University-Middle East North Africa-FAIMER Regional Institute<\/a> <\/i> (ASU-MENA-FRI) helped to change that.<\/p>\n

The ASU-MENA-FRI is one of nine FAIMER Regional Institutes<\/a> <\/i> throughout the world that are based on the core curriculum of the International FAIMER Institute<\/a> <\/i>. The goal of these Institutes is to provide professional development curricula in health professions education and leadership for international health professions faculty who have demonstrated the potential to play a key role in advancing health professions education at their institutions, within their countries, or around the globe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Name:<\/strong> Dr. Bibi Sumera Keenoo
\nTitle:<\/strong> Coordinator of Major Medical Programmes
\nInstitution:<\/strong> University of Mauritius, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
\nFAIMER Fellow:<\/strong> Ain Shams University-Middle East North Africa-FAIMER Regional Institute (ASU-MENA-FRI), 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI learned a lot,\u201d said Dr. Keenoo of her two-year FAIMER fellowship, which she completed in 2022. \u201cI\u2019m generally an introvert, but that doesn\u2019t matter in terms of making a change. I learned about myself, like how I can use my qualities to make changes and to introduce new things, and where I\u2019m lacking in certain qualities and how I can compensate with my colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Keenoo explained how she learned to discuss her ideas with faculty colleagues who were more extroverted than she was but were also willing to listen. They would, in turn, become champions of her ideas with other faculty within the department.<\/p>\n

Dr. Keenoo wrote about her journey of self-reflection, which helped her discover her strengths and weaknesses and develop her leadership skills, in the article \u201cReflection of Leadership Skills by a Clinical Educator<\/a>\u201d <\/i> published in the March 2022 issue of the journal BMJ Leader<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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