Rabia Khan

PhD

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital

My research examines how structural barriers to care effects everyone in the health system – from physicians through to patients. Children are amongst the most vulnerable groups and require a health system and culture of care that is uniquely tailored their needs. At its core, this means research and knowledge mobilization through policy and practice that teaches physicians how to build and maintain patient trust, ensures best practices for team-based care, and examines address health human resource challenges so that physicians remain in practice for the communities they serve. By understanding how the education and health systems in which health workers work, contribute to helping (and harming) patients and physicians alike, my work addresses structural barriers to ensuring health for all.

Academic Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Evidence to Innovation

Contact Information

Location

Centre for Health Education Scholarship, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z3

What is the problem of clinical reasoning represented to be in medical education policy?

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Bjorn Watsjold and Faizal Haji and Rabia Khan

DOI: 10.1007/s10459-026-10540-0

04 / 2026

Playing with our self in medicine: A discourse analysis of self exploration

Medical Education

Rabia Khan

DOI: 10.1111/medu.15720

05 / 2025

Trainee resistors: Have our students become our teachers?

Medical Education

Erin R. Peebles and Rabia Khan

DOI: 10.1111/medu.15569

10 / 2024

Constructing Burnout: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Burnout in Postgraduate Medical Education

Academic Medicine

Rabia Khan and Brian David Hodges and Maria Athina Martimianakis

DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000005358

07 / 2023

When I say burnout

Medical Education

R. Khan and B. D. Hodges and M. A. Martimianakis

DOI: 10.1111/medu.15088

04 / 2023

Simulation and Active Learning Decreases Training Time of an Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment Course in Pilot Study in Malawi

Pediatric Emergency Care

Elaine L. Sigalet and Norman Lufesi and Adam Dubrowski and Faizal Haji and Rabia Khan and David Grant and Peter Weinstock and Ian Wishart and Elizabeth Molyneux and Niranjan Kissoon

DOI: 10.1097/pec.0000000000001996

01 / 2020

Politics of Mental Healthcare in Post-apartheid South Africa

Politikon

Andr Janse van Rensburg and Rabia Khan and Pieter Fourie and Piet Bracke

DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2019.1611300

04 / 2019

Empathy, Burnout, and the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Training

Teaching Empathy in Healthcare

Rabia Khan and Maria Athina Martimianakis

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-29876-0_15

At the coalface of collaborative mental health care: A qualitative study of governance and power in district-level service provision in South Africa

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management

Andr Janse van Rensburg and Rabia Khan and Edwin Wouters and Dingie van Rensburg and Pieter Fourie and Piet Bracke

DOI: 10.1002/hpm.2593

08 / 2018

Twelve tips for undertaking reflexive global health experiences in medicine

Medical Teacher

Rabia Khan and Brian Hodges and Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis and Donald Cole

DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2017.1333589

06 / 2017

Operationalising elaboration theory for simulation instruction design: a Delphi study

Medical Education

Faizal A Haji and Rabia Khan and Glenn Regehr and Gary Ng and Sandrine de Ribaupierre and Adam Dubrowski

DOI: 10.1111/medu.12726

05 / 2015

Measuring cognitive load during simulation-based psychomotor skills training: sensitivity of secondary-task performance and subjective ratings

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Faizal A. Haji and Rabia Khan and Glenn Regehr and James Drake and Sandrine de Ribaupierre and Adam Dubrowski

DOI: 10.1007/s10459-015-9599-8

03 / 2015

Barriers to HIV counselling and testing uptake by health workers in three public hospitals in Free State Province, South Africa

AIDS Care

Rabia Khan and Annalee Yassi and Michelle C. Engelbrecht and Letshego Nophale and Andr J. van Rensburg and Jerry Spiegel

DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2014.951308

08 / 2014

Professional fulfillment in women identifying leaders in medicine

This national study investigates the structural supports and barriers women leaders across medicine face in their experiences with burnout and professional fulfillment across their career.

Addressing burnout in women physicians with intersectional identities: a narrative inquiry and life story approach

This
longitudinal study follows post-graduate trainees, early career and mid-career physicians over 5 years to see examine how marginalized intersectionality effects career trajectory, burnout experiences and professional fulfillment of women-identifying and gender diverse physicians with marginalized intersectionality’s in order to address attrition. This study will have ongoing recruitment so please feel free to reach out if you’re interested in participating.

Grants

Principal Investigator. Addressing burnout in women physicians with intersectional identities: a narrative inquiry and life story approach: trainees and career physicians. Funding Source: Research Excellence, Diversity and Independence (REDI) Early Career Award (Phase 1 Funding)

Principal Investigator. Addressing burnout in women physicians with intersectional identities: a narrative inquiry and life story approach: trainees and career physicians. Funding Source: CIHR Research Excellence, Diversity and Independence (REDI) Early Career Award (Phase 2 Funding)

Honours & Awards

2023 - Outstanding Research Award Based on highest rated peer-review article in the journal Academic Medicine for the paper: Constructing “burnout”: a critical discourse analysis of burnout in postgraduate medical education, Association of American Medical Colleges Research in Medical Education (AAMC RIME)

Our Research

At BC Children’s, we are making discoveries that save lives and transform health care for children in our province and around the world. Our research portfolio includes basic, clinical, population, and public health research.

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