Nahla Gomaa, MBBCH, MSc, MD. PhD
Contact
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Surgery Dept
- ngomaa@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Otolaryngology Medical Education Research in Otolaryngology qualitative studies quality improvement
About
Dr. Gomaa is an Associate Cl. Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, a Clinician-Educator in the Department of Surgery, and the Lead of Surgery in the Faculty Development Committee at the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta.
After her graduation, she received her Clinical Masters in Otolaryngology, then Doctorate Degree from Cairo University. Parallel to this, she pursued her fellowship at the University of Iowa, U.S.A, to complete her MD. PhD., In addition, she earned a Quality Improvement in Education training through a European Commission grant in the United Kingdom [UK], after which she held the position of Director of QI at the Faculty of Medicine. She received a number of international and local; educational and clinical research grants.
She has been on faculty at the Division of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, at the University of Alberta since 2012. Since then, she has committed to the clinical, classroom, multi-disciplinary teaching, research, and administrative roles. She served on different committees including strategic planning of Competency-Based Medical Education [CBME], Human Research Ethics Board, [HREB], and is still currently an active member of the Faculty Development Committee [FDC], in which she has helped to spearhead a number of initiatives along with other committee members, such as faculty peer review, collaboration of the FoMD with international institutes and medical schools, development of the online annual report [ARO] for FoMD, and development of the Vision & Mission of the Faculty Development Committee.
She has also been an OSCE examiner, MMI panelist, STIR program supervisor, and Alberta innovates grant reviewer.
In 2019, she earned her Degree in "Patients' Safety & Quality Improvement"; from the University of Calgary and has been the Director of quality improvement at the Division of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
Her academic interest featured quality improvement in medical education, Feedback & assessment in medical education, innovative educational tools including simulation, blended courses, and using different technology in medical education.
Her clinical research interests funded by a number in the domains of hearing, balance, and inner ear research including:
- Auditory Evoked Potentials.- fMRI role in central auditory defects.
- Tinnitus diagnosis and intervention
- Vertigo Diagnosis and treatment.
- Knowledge translation in hearing and balance research and research of the inner ear.
- Qualitative studies
She has also supervised students' projects as a scholarship on quality improvement in the health care system and CanMEDS roles. Quality Improvement in clinical as well as educational settings of Competency-based medical education [CBME]. She has mentored a number of multi-disciplinary students in these domains. In addition, she has collaborative work with Peter S. Allen Research Centre, Neuroscience Institute and Surgical Simulation Research Lab [SSRL] at the University of Alberta.
Research
Research
I. Clinical:
Hearing and balance, Otology, Hearing loss, Tinnitus, and Vertigo.
II. Academic:
Medical Education Quality Improvement, Feedback, assessment, Faculty Development.
III. Quality Improvement:
Quality improvement of the health care system, and Health care strategies
Teaching
The fundamentals of my teaching philosophy are providing equal opportunities for success to my students as future physicians and colleagues, fulfilling their main roles of being advocates for patients. Therefore, a lot of my teaching strategies may be dynamic, guided by my students' needs, keeping in mind enriching their health and patient advocacy roles.
As a Clinician Educator, a mentor, quality improvement specialist, and peer observer, I try to balance my teaching between providing knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for the best practice of my learners as future physicians, and to maintain these three areas of growth and development till the learners are acquainted with the momentum to self-maintain them.
I am proud that my educational skills were shaped early enough by thriving into the quality enhancement of medical education trends. In addition, I took the opportunity of the add-on skills that I enjoyed learning; such as the tools for quality improvement in health care practices, leadership skills, along with the basic CanMED concepts to enrich clinical teaching.
Prioritizing educational tasks, dividing the outcome of my learners into milestones easy to attain, and ability to set and change the benchmarks in a dynamic world that is changing by the day make up a supportive toolkit of the educational and mentorship processes. This applies to any teaching setting; whether clinical or research-based. All these tools would not do the job, without the students' feedback and reflections. In that sense, the educational process is a cycle of dynamic evolution, and adaptation.
Scholarly Activities
Admin - Director of Quality Improvement, Division of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery
2019 to Current
The role involves leveraging the clinical and academic knowledge, skills, attitudes and research level of residents and students in the area of best clinical practices in Otolaryngology, that lead to improving the quality of care.
Research - Evoked potential and fMRI in Tinnitus
2015 to 2017
Studying the evoked potential and fMRI findings that may change the way of treatment of tinnitus.
Admin - Lead of Surgery in the Faculty Development Committee
2013 to Current
- spearhead a number of initiatives such as collaboration of the FoMD with international institutes and medical schools, development of the online annual report [ARO] for FoMD, and development of the Vision & Mission of the Faculty Development Committee.
Teaching - Values-Based Practice in Medical Education
2020 to 2020
The work has been done in collaboration with Central Michigan University, College of Medicine at the International Medical Education Conference, California, USA, 2020. It is an area of patient's advocacy in medical practice.
Featured Publications
Julianna K. Zenke, Samiha Rahman, Qi Guo, Ada W. S. Leung, Nahla A. Gomaa
Otology & Neurotology . 2021 May; 42 (8):E1170-E1180 DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000003194
Nahla Gomaa *, Zaharadeen Jimoh, Sandra Campbell, Julianna Zenke, Agnieszka J. Szczepek *
Diagnostics MDPI. 2021 January; Accepted 24/ 12/ 2020 (11; 42):1-19 10.3390/polym13010063
MPDI Diagnostics . 2020 December; https://org/10.3390/polym13010063
Experiences of Faculty Members Giving Corrective Feedback to Medical Trainees in a Clinical Setting.
ournal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions [JCEHP]. 2020 December; https://doi.org/10.1097/ceh.0000000000000322
Experiences of Faculty Members Giving Corrective Feedback to Medical Trainees in a Clinical Setting.
Davila-Cervantes, Andrea MD, MEd; Foulds, Jessica L. MD, FRCPC; Gomaa, Nahla A. MBBCH, MSc, MD, PhD; Rashid, Marghalara PhD
Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions [JCEHP]. 2020 December; Published ahead of print [TBD] https://doi.org/10.1097/ceh.0000000000000322
Values-Based Practice in Medical Education: Practical Considerations
Innovation in Medical Education conference LA, CA, USA. 2020 February;