Biography

Dr. Arina Ziganshina, MD, PhD, MHPE, SFHEA is an Assistant Professor, Head of the Examination and Assessment Unit at Dubai Medical University Chair of Assessment Committee at the College of Medicine. She earned her MD and PhD in Clinical Medicine from Kazan State Medical University (Russia), and an MHPE from Gulf Medical University.

Previously at Kazan State Medical University, she conducted clinical teaching and research spanning medical education and pediatric gastroenterology, while contributing to curriculum design, and building assessment systems.

Dr. Ziganshina has presented internationally, including AMEE and the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (2021), and the Middle East & North America Higher Education Leadership Forum, International Educational Conference, Abu Dhabi (2024) and WFME World Conference (2025). Her scholarship focuses on assessment, internationalization, and educational technologies.

She leads Journal Clubs and CPD events on assessment, ed-tech, and internationalization, and serves as a peer reviewer (e.g., BMC Medical Education). A member of the EmiratesMEDs assessment sub-taskforce, she contributes to UAE competency-based guidelines, advancing medical education policy and practice.

Teaching & Service

• MHPE program: Assessment, teaching and learning
• MD Program: Early Clinical Exposure
• COM Assessment Committee
• DMU Examination and Assessment Unit
• EmiratesMEDs assessments sub-taskforce

Education

• September 2021 – November 2023 – Master’s Program in Health Professions Education, Student, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, UAE
• 2015-2018 – Kazan State Medical University, Kazan Russia, Department of Pediatrics Postgraduate Program
• 2014-2015 – Kazan State Medical University, Kazan Russia, Department of Pediatrics Clinical internship
• 2008 – 2014 – Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, Russia, Faculty of General Medicine. Medical Doctor Degree Diploma with Honors (Cum Laude)

Research Interests

• Teaching and learning
• Emotional intelligence
• Globalization and internationalization
• Assessment in health professions education
• Technologies in education

Research Publications

• Shadan, M., Shalaby, R.H., Ziganshina, A. et al. Integrating portfolio and mentorship in competency-based medical education: a Middle East experience. BMC Med Educ 25, 36 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-06553-1
• S. Ahmed, F. Shersad, A. Ziganshina, et.al Operationalizing competency-based assessment: Contextualizing for cultural and gender divides. MedEdPublish 2023, 13:210 published: 11 Oct 2023
• Lutokhina Yu.A., Vetluzhskaya M.V., Ziganshina A.A., et al. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICAL STUDENTS STUDYING GENERAL MEDICINE AND PEDIATRICS: A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL, CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY. Pedagogy and Psychology of Education. 2022. No. 4. P. 90-108.
• Mukharyamova, L., Ziganshina, A., Zhidjaevskij, A. et al. Medical students in Russia evaluate the training during the COVID-19 pandemic: a student survey. BMC Med Educ 21, 560 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02997-x
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• Koshpaeva, E.S., Mukharyamova, L.M. & Ziganshina, A.A., 2021. Clinical teaching at distance: an educational approach of Kazan State Medical University. Canadian Medical Education Journal, 12(2), pp. 26-27.