Consultant Obstetrician (Lead for Diabetes in Pregnancy)

Birmingham Women’s Hospital

Dr. Aisha Janjua is a Consultant Obstetrician (Lead for Diabetes in Pregnancy) at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. She has completed her MD in Clinical and Experimental Medicine from the University of Birmingham, and has a Masters in Medical Education from the University of Warwick. She has worked as a Clinical Teaching Fellow and Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Birmingham Hospital and has pursued her teaching interest both at the University of Warwick and within the West Midlands Deanery. She is interested in high risk pregnancies and antenatal practice.

She has developed teaching activities for University of Birmingham final year medical students on O&G block, as well as ERASMUS students. She has revised and peer reviewed RCOG StratOG E-learning modules, as well as e-learning for the University of Birmingham. She has been a course facilitator for the RCOG Basic Practical Surgical Skills course since 2014. Aisha has been involved as faculty for TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety). This is an evidence-based framework to optimise team performance across the healthcare delivery system. She teaches the core of the TeamSTEPPS framework which is comprised of four skills: Leadership, Situation Monitoring, Mutual Support, and Communication.

Aisha has 11 published peer review articles and is also a Contributor for the book to Specialty by Oxford Press. She was involved with the GMC Curriculum Advisory Committee from 2014 – 2022, and and was on the RCOG StratOG Editorial Board as SBA Lead for 3 years. She has held roles both on undergraduate exam writing panels and postgraduate SBA writing. She has published (co-editor) for the Oxford Handbook of Medical School. She is currently the Editor in Chief (Obstetrics) for the RCOG E Learning Editorial Board.