Medicine for the Soul As Health Promotion Lead for the Muslim Doctor’s Association, a role I’ve held for nearly four years, I’ve embraced countless opportunities for growth. This year, I had the privilege of joining the LE...
Co-creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Muslim Medical Students Photo by PoloX Hernandez, @elpolox We had such an inspiring panel of student, faculty and chaplain speakers who shared powerful testimonies of personal and collective challenges and described how they... adventure hotels
Wellbeing Wednesday: Mind and Body The mind and body are inseparable, and contrary to some beliefs are not two separate entities. Mental and physical health conditions are often connected, and when one gets worse, the other gets worse ...
Mental Health Awareness Week As Mental Health Awareness week comes to a mid-point, my attention was drawn to a particular quote I read; “awareness is not the same as action” . At Muslim Doctors Association, we have really thrown ...
Wellbeing Wednesday March2021: Mindfulness We’ve all heard so much about mindfulness, and for those of you who have been with Wellbeing Wednesday right from the start when we had our meet ups, you will know we advocated this a lot. So much so ...
LOCKDOWN RAMADAN 2.0 So here we are again, facing another Ramadan in semi- lockdown circumstances. It won’t be as bad, but it won’t be the big iftars, the packed taraweeh prayers, the busy streets around the masjids that ... adventure
Wellbeing Wednesday April 2021: Converts to Islam and their wellbeing Wellbeing Wednesday is back with Social Psychologist Anita Nayyar to help you gain some insights on the challenges converts to Islam may face and how we can support them. Being a convert herself, she ... hotels
Wellbeing Wednesday March 2021: Healing after abuse Last year we saw an estimated 2.4 million adults experience domestic abuse, with partner abuse making up the majority of cases. Although the prevalence of such cases have changed little over the years... hotels
Transmuting trauma into active survivorship: stories of challenging Islamophobia In our August Wellbeing Wednesday cafe, we had the privilege of hosting two inspiring speakers. The first was Dr Ahmed Hankir, an award winning psychiatrist, survivor of conflict and mental illness, p...
Broken Hearts, Police and Doctors – Did the NHS Criminalise Grief? On the 1st August 2020, the Daily Mail ran a story accompanied by a video about a Muslim Asian doctor couple, the Abbasis, and their 6-year old daughter who lay dying in a hospital bed of a rare genet...
A Whole New Digital World in Medicine…….. Part 2 If there is one thing that clinicians are now talking about as a silver lining from coronavirus, it is that of technological advancement within the NHS. From a primary care perspective and as a local ...
Heart Rhythm Awareness- Don’t Miss a Beat It is estimated that around 500,000 people in the UK have undiagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF), a heart condition whereby a person has an irregular heart beat (pulse). Compared to the general populati...