Nur-Ain Nadir, MD, joined TPMG in 2018 as founding residency director of KP Northern California’s first and only Emergency Medicine residency. “I always intended to be a clinician, but along the way I was told that I was a good educator and that steered me into medical education,” says Dr. Nadir, Emergency Medicine physician at KP Modesto.
The new Emergency Medicine residency supports a medically underserved region with a chronic physician shortage. Dr. Nadir’s program has been fully matched since it launched in 2021, and many physicians that she trained have gone on to careers with TPMG.
“Dr. Nadir is an engaging and enthusiastic educator who can teach a group of learners and individualize learning for each person in the room,” says Ted O’Connell, MD, FAAFP, director of Medical Education for KP Northern California.
Dr. Nadir completed a fellowship in medical simulation and is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the development of simulation curricula and models. A strong believer that active learning is the best way to teach emergency medicine, she established monthly interprofessional simulation programs for residents and faculty.
“In clinical medicine many critical situations just don’t happen frequently enough to practice, and simulation allows deliberate practice of infrequent but critical cases for better and safer patient outcomes,” says Dr. Nadir, associate professor at KP Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine and lead physician for TPMG Regional Risk and Patient Safety Simulation.
Her efforts to gain academic accreditation for the new Emergency Medicine residency program excited KP Central Valley clinicians to join the faculty and, with her encouragement, publish more than a dozen peer-reviewed studies before the program even started.
“Dr. Nadir’s dedication, energy, and passion have been instrumental in establishing and building our academic program,” says Sanjay Marwaha, MD, physician-in-chief of KP Central Valley. “Her commitment to fostering a supportive and collaborative environment is the hallmark of a great teacher.”