Shamim Sherafat

Indipendent Scholar, Austria

Title: De-professionalization in the Shifting Landscape of Medical Education in Iran

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Biography

Shamim Sherafat is a sociologist specializing in healthcare inequities, physician-patient dynamics, and social determinants of health. With a Ph.D. from Shahid Beheshti University, her research employs qualitative methodologies like critical ethnography and multi-grounded theory to analyse systemic barriers in medicine.

As Secretary of the Health and Medical Sociology Department at the Iranian Sociological Association, she bridges academia and practice, designing workshops to improve health literacy and clinical communication. Her monograph Medical Sociology: Physician-Patient Relationship in Iran (2024) underscores her commitment to translating research into policy. As a multilingual scholar (Persian, English, German), she has taught at Tehran University of Medical Sciences and collaborated with NGOs to empower refugees and underserved communities. 

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