International Health Humanities Network Membership

Mona El-Sherbini, M.D, has been based in the Department of Medical Parasitology, Kasr Al-Ainy, Cairo university since 2007. During her work in the quality assurance of Education (QAE) and contribution to the national reaccreditation of her Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University in June 2017. A pressing quest to address the deficiency of humanitarian studies for undergraduate medical studies was the initiative to embark on the pathway of “Narrative Medicine” ,she envisioned her institute “Kasr Al -Ainy” as a symbol of the medical profession in Egypt(founded in 1827)where other remarkable new medical faculties had branched out from Kasr Al-Ainy across Egypt with time and it was necessary to continue to retain the confidence of the most community-attached establishment to meet emerging needs in the healthcare professionin recent Egyptian history as well .

Accordingly, to achieve her credibility and implement “Narrative Medicine” in the undergraduate medical curriculum, she managed to receive a certificate in Basic Medical Education from Kasr Al-Ainy and was honoured a certificate of the International Professional Trainer (CIPT)from Missouri State University in U.S.A., August 2017. 

Currently, “Narrative Medicine” is taught as an elective training course for the third-year undergraduate medical students in the Integrated Program of Kasr Al-Ainy (IPKA) and Mona holds membership in the curriculum reform committee for undergraduate medical education at Faculty of Medicine, Cairo university.

Her educational philosophy in teaching medicine is to bring education to life through adding an element of gamification and music.  She forestalls in many vocations her passion to bring humanity back to the healthcare practice through merging multidisciplinary humanitarian sciences with biomedical sciences.

 Mona’s research interests include narrative studies in relation to medical practice and professionalism, narrative medicine in medical education, cultural influence on health and disease as well as Egyptology and History of Medicine. Further academic studies include:  Molecular and Epigenetic studies, Parasitic diseases and Epidemiological studies. She considers herself a global thinker with international mindfulness, she is fascinated with studying the global effect of climate change on the shifting boundaries of some diseases like Leishmania and Malaria with social impact.