A junior doctor and recent winner of the prestigious Tamas Fülöp Award (awarded for his innovative work in health professionals’ education and engaging them with South Asian patients) has called for all health professionals to do more to engage with their ethnic minority patients. Dr Prasad, 29, a junior doctor training to be a GP was given the award for, amongst other accomplishments, his project ‘A Touch of Spice’ – a course for health professionals to learn to speak basic Hindi/Urdu and about transcultural medicine, the study of how culture affects the practice of medicine.
Dr Prasad said, “Winning international recognition for my efforts is fantastic. However, it merely highlights the fact that there is much to be done to engage those whose first language is not English.”
The award was given by the Network Towards Unity for Health (NTUFH), an international collaborative effort of some 185 institutions and organizations for health and health professions education and over 200 individuals from all over the world.
Dr Prasad also worked with the Black Community AIDS team of Leeds to raise awareness of sexual health education amongst the local Sylheti Bengali community. Leeds medical students still run the course and he has been invited to teach general practice registrars in 3 other regions in the country and is currently developing material for general practitioner registrars’ use.
Dr Vibhore Prasad is a junior doctor training to become a GP. He is currently based in North Oxfordshire but has grown up in Yorkshire, where he went to Leeds medical school and still returns there on a regular basis to maintain links with his community.
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