Adapting Education Across Cultures: Dr Halah Ibrahim on Professionalism, Context and Global Medical Training

Dr Halah Ibrahim is the Vice President for International Outreach at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). She is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and completed an internal medicine residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. She also holds a Master’s in Health Professions Education from Johns Hopkins University.

Halah has lived and worked in the Middle East for the past 17 years, where she has led efforts to adapt Western frameworks of graduate medical education to align with local cultural and societal values. Her research focuses on the globalisation of medical education, including developing culturally relevant professionalism curricula and advancing palliative care education in the United Arab Emirates.

She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and is committed to fostering equitable opportunities in medical education scholarship worldwide. Through her editorial work and multinational collaborations, she actively mentors trainees and junior faculty and supports authors from countries underrepresented in medical education publishing.

In this episode of the KIPRIME podcast, Halah talks about her research at the intersection of Western and Eastern traditions in medical education and her efforts to build a more inclusive global community of scholars.