St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, Appoints Dr. Toni Johnson Liggins as Associate Dean Of Clinical Studies

India, twenty ninth June 2023: SGU has introduced the appointment of Dr. Toni Johnson Liggins as affiliate dean of medical research within the US. Clinical research are hospital-based experiences that college students bear throughout the closing two years of medical faculty, giving college students hands-on sensible expertise, and permitting them to work together with sufferers and apply drugs underneath the supervision of skilled docs.

Her obligations will embrace working alongside Dr. Robert Grant, senior affiliate dean of medical research, to conduct website visits at SGU’s affiliated hospitals and medical facilities. She will guarantee college students from all all over the world, together with India, obtain the assets they want on their journeys to changing into docs. In 2022, 31 SGU college students from the South Asia area entered into medical rotations throughout the US and UK. Dr. Liggins may even work with Dr. Grant to assist medical educating school who supervise and educate college students at these websites.

Commenting on her appointment, Dr. Liggins mentioned: “I’m delighted to be becoming a member of SGU and wanting ahead to assembly college students to debate their medical expertise and supply them with recommendation for the way they will thrive of their schooling”.

“I’ve 20 years of expertise working in undergraduate and graduate medical schooling, as nicely as expertise overseeing residences in a spread of specialties. As affiliate dean of medical research, I can use all of my data and apply it to serving to medical college students at SGU get essentially the most out of their schooling and put together them to be the very best physicians they are often”, she continued.

Prior to becoming a member of SGU, Dr. Liggins was the director of medical schooling (DME) and the designated institutional official (DIO) on the Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio, the place she oversaw the schooling and coaching for all medical college students and residents within the healthcare system.

Her former function was on the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Dr. Liggins graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and accomplished her residency coaching in psychiatry on the Cleveland Clinic, happening to apply psychiatry for over 25 years.