Professor Azer has contributed to medical education at the
University of Sydney (1997–1998) and the
University of Melbourne (1999–2006). He is Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Curriculum and Research Unit at
King Saud University College of Medicine in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Medical Education Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine,
Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia, from 2007 to 2009. Prior to this, he had a distinguished career in
clinical medicine, research, and
medical education. Prior to joining
Universiti Teknologi MARA, he was a Visiting Professor of
Medical Education at the
University of Toyama, and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, the
University of Melbourne, from 1999 to 2006, and Senior Lecturer in
Medical Education at the
University of Sydney from 1997 to 1998, Post-doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Kansas Medical Centre, Kansas, USA, 1995. His clinical work and research was in the area of
gastroenterology and
hepatology and he was awarded a PhD in Medicine from the
University of Sydney in 1995, Master of Education from the
University of New South Wales in 1993, Fellowship of the
American College of Gastroenterology in 1998, and Master of Public Health, from the
University of New South Wales in 2005. During his career he was appointed as an editor at
PLOS ONE, the
MEDICINE Journal, and the
World Journal of Gastroenterology. He was also on the editorial board of the
International Journal of Medical Education,
BMC Medical Education, and the Editorial Board of MedEDWorld, as well as other journals and joint membership of the policy committee of the
ASME, the UK. He is the convener of PBL-SIG, for the Australia and New Zealand Association for Medical Education (ANZAME). He has published widely in the area of
Problem-Based Learning (PBL),
Medical Education, and
Assessment and has written a number of books on PBL. Over the last 10 years he trained over 1500 academics in the area of Problem-Based Learning. His trainees were from a wide range of disciplines including medicine,
nursing,
physiotherapy,
dentistry,
occupational therapy, speech pathology, nutrition, education, management and administration, business, engineering,
leadership and law. His trainees were from universities in Australia, Japan,
Malaysia,
Taiwan,
Sweden and other countries. During 2003 to 2006, he has also introduced PBL to 6 schools in the eastern region of
Victoria, Australia, ==Qualifications==