Rabia Khan, PhD, MS

rabia.khan@ubc.ca
Full Publication List

Dr. Rabia Khan is a critical social scientist that explores humanism in the health professions. Using critical theory and qualitative methodologies, she studies relations of power and how they influence what is possible for individuals to do, say and be. Dr. Khan brings together her intersectional identities in her research, teaching and advocacy to normalize embodiment in her commitment to making the world a more equitable, inclusive, and just place for all people.

Dr. Khan completed a Fellowship at the Wilson Centre for Health Professions Education and obtained her PhD at the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto, where her dissertation, Dying to Stay Alive in Residency and Beyond: A Critical Discourse Analysis of ‘Burnout’, examined the relationship between ‘burnout’ and ‘suicide’ in post graduate medical education. This research explores the sociocultural and sociohistorical conditions that contribute to disillusionment in medicine, and with life itself. Furthermore, her research makes visible the epistemic injustice of excluding differing bodies such as women, disabled, neurodiverse, Indigenous, Black and queer trainees (among other intersectional marginalized groups), from research addressing what it means to be ‘well’ in medicine.

Dr. Khan is also designated a Global Scholar, having completed the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Collaborative Doctoral Program in Global Health. Her research interests in this area include the ethics of global health research and the globalization of health professions education.

Research Interests

My research interests include:

• Health Professions Education
• Burnout
• Critical Theory
• Global Health
• Mental Health

Publication Highlights

• Sigalet E, Lufesi N, Haji FA, Khan R, Grant D, Weinstock P, Kissoon N, Molyneux E, Wishart I, Dubrowski A. (2021). Simulation and Active Learning Decreases Training Time of an Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment Course in Pilot Study in Malawi: Implications for Increasing Efficiency and Workforce Capacity in Low-Resource Settings. Pediatric Emergency Care, 37(12), 1259-64.
• Janse van Rensburg, A., Khan, R., Fourie, P., & Bracke, P. (2019). Politics of Mental Healthcare in Post-apartheid South Africa. Politikon, 46(2), 192-205.
• Janse van Rensburg, A; Khan, R; Wouters, E; van Rensburg, D; Fourie, P; Bracke, P. (2018). At the coalface of collaborative mental health care: A qualitative study of governance and power in district‐level service provision in South Africa. Int J Health Plann Manage, 3(4), 1121-1135.
• Khan, R; Hodges, B; Martimianakis, MAT; Cole D. (2017). Twelve tips for undertaking reflexive global health experiences in medicine. Med Teach, 39(10), 1023-1028.
• Haji, F. A., Khan, R., Regehr, G., Drake, J., de Ribaupierre, S., & Dubrowski, A. (2015). Measuring cognitive load during simulation-based psychomotor skills training: sensitivity of secondary-task performance and subjective ratings. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 20(5), 1237-1253.
• Haji, F. A., Khan, R., Regehr, G., Ng, G., Ribaupierre, S., & Dubrowski, A. (2015). Operationalising elaboration theory for simulation instruction design: a Delphi study. Medical education, 49(6), 576-588.
• Khan, R., Yassi, A., Engelbrecht, M. C., Nophale, L., van Rensburg, A. J., & Spiegel, J. (2015). Barriers to HIV counselling and testing uptake by health workers in three public hospitals in Free State Province, South Africa. AIDS care, 27(2), 198-205.

Presentation Highlights

• Khan R. Burning out on knowledge: graduate studies and wellness. Invited presentation for the Institute for Medical Sciences and Department of Neuroscience, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, February 23, 2023.
• Hamad N, Khan R, Martimianakis T, Giuliani M. Decolonizing Global Health Education – Perspectives for Oncology Panel presentation at the CARO-ARRO Collaborative Global Oncology Enrichment Program, Toronto, ON (Virtual Conference), March 16, 2022.
• Hamad N, Khan R, Martimianakis T, Giuliani M. Decolonizing Global Health Education – Perspectives for Oncology Panel presentation at the CARO-ARRO Collaborative Global Oncology Enrichment Program, Toronto, ON (Virtual Conference), March 17, 2021.
• Johnston J, Khan R, Martimianakis T. Assessment in competency-based education. Office of Medical Education Scholarship Journal Club, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, February 5, 2018.
• Khan R, Johnston J, Mylopoulos, M. Integrating Knowledge and Compassion into Practice: Informing CBME &Workplace Learning. Office of Medical Education Scholarship Journal Club, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto,
  ON, December 7, 2017.