{"id":16793,"date":"2025-10-20T11:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/?post_type=blog_post&#038;p=16793"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:49:16","slug":"dr-shifan-khanday-serves-as-external-examiner-at-stellenbosch-university-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"blog_post","link":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/blog-post\/dr-shifan-khanday-serves-as-external-examiner-at-stellenbosch-university-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Shifan Khanday Serves as External Examiner at Stellenbosch University, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">College of Medicine ,Dubai Medical University (DMU) proudly announces that&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Shifan Khanday<\/strong>, Acting Associate Dean of Research and Head of the AI and Smart Education Unit, was invited to serve as an&nbsp;<strong>External Examiner<\/strong>&nbsp;for a Master\u2019s thesis at&nbsp;<strong>Stellenbosch University<\/strong>, South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">The thesis, titled&nbsp;<em>\u201cInvestigating Neurophobia and the Effectiveness of New Multimedia Neuroanatomy Teaching Modalities Among Health Sciences Students,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;explored innovative pedagogical strategies to overcome the fear and difficulty often associated with learning neuroanatomy. The candidate presented novel multimedia-based teaching tools aimed at enhancing student engagement and understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">Dr. Khanday\u2019s role as an examiner highlights her international standing in&nbsp;<strong>medical education, Anatomy, and AI-enhanced learning<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">The collaboration between Dubai Medical University and Stellenbosch University underscores the shared commitment to&nbsp;<strong>advancing medical education through research, technology, and global academic partnerships<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/externalexaminer_oct25.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/externalexaminer_oct25.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/externalexaminer_oct25-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/externalexaminer_oct25-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/externalexaminer_oct25-530x159.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College of Medicine ,Dubai Medical University (DMU) proudly announces that&nbsp;Dr. Shifan Khanday, Acting Associate Dean of Research and Head of the AI and Smart Education Unit, was invited to serve as an&nbsp;External Examiner&nbsp;for a Master\u2019s thesis at&nbsp;Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The thesis, titled&nbsp;\u201cInvestigating Neurophobia and the Effectiveness of New Multimedia Neuroanatomy Teaching Modalities Among Health <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"blog-category":[56],"class_list":["post-16793","blog_post","type-blog_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog-category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post\/16793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16793"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=16793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}