dr. NUR AFRAININ SYAH S.Ked, MMedEd, Ph.D

Dr Nur Afrainin Syah teaches family medicine, conducts research, and helps develop course curricula and student assessments. She also runs her private primary care clinics. She received her Master’s degree in Medical Education and a PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interest lies in linking education-based research and practice medicine to benefit patient care, especially in primary health care. Her recent research focuses on examining interprofessional teamwork in primary care and how the findings could inform the development of interprofessional education in primary care settings. Her publication in Family Practice describes the experiences of Indonesian GPs in the era of health reform in maintaining Standards of Medical Practice. She was one of the investigators of the Indonesian PRIMASYS case study (primary health care study) in 2017, supported by the WHO. She is a co-applicant from Indonesia for a proposal approved to be funded in 2017 by the Australia-Indonesia Centre, titled “Engaging primary care physicians in approaching adolescents for early prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs): An educational initiatives project at Yogyakarta”.