Aliya Kassam

Biographic Data

ID7590251
NAMEAliya Kassam
GIVEN NAMESAliya
FAMILY NAMEKassam
SIGNATUREKASSAM A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Calgary
ORCID0000-0002-7081-6377
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Privilege breeds privilege

    Open AccessMoiz Hafeez, Gbolahan Olarewaju et al.ARTICLEBMC Medical Education2026

    PURPOSE: There remains limited information on racial diversity amongst medical student bodies. Given the lack of demographic data collected for medical student admissions, we sought to understand the ethno-racial identity and capital of medical students across Canada. METHOD: Our objectives were two-fold: (1) Collect demographic data about medical students across Canada and (2) Apply Bourdieu's theoretical framework of capital to the data. Adopti…

  • Landscapes of psychological trauma in residency education

    Open AccessAmanda L Roze des Ordons, Aliya Kassam et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2025

  • Ethical issues in residency education related to the Covid-19 pandemic

    Aliya Kassam, Stacey Page et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2025

    BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced new challenges to provide care and educate junior doctors (resident physicians). We sought to understand the positive and negative experiences of first-year resident physicians and describe potential ethical issues from their stories. METHOD: We used narrative inquiry (NI) methodology and applied a semistructured interview guide with questions pertaining to ethical principles and both positive and nega…

  • The Need to Understand Medical Student-Specific Validity of Well-Being Scales

    Open AccessHenry Li, Victor Do et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2024

    To the Editor: Bynum and colleagues1 reported on the systematic development of the Shame Frequency Questionnaire in Medical Students. We agree there is a need for well-being measures with validity evidence in medical students. Furthermore, we suggest that convergent validity is best established using reference measures that have been validated in medical students. In their article, the authors use the 10-item Center for Epidemiological Studies De…

  • When I say … wellness

    Open AccessAliya Kassam, Maria Athina MartimianakisARTICLEMedical Education2024

    The latest edition of "When I say..." offers guidance on what wellness means in Health Professions Education, flagging up the importance of negotiation and engaging key groups for community building

  • Response to

    Aliya Kassam, Jason Lord et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2023

    Dear EditorWe read with great interest the work of Hamza et al.’s recent recommendations regarding research into competency based medical education (CBME) (Hamza et al. 2023) that focused on whethe

  • Wellness in medical education

    Open AccessStephana J Mo, Stephana J Cherak et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2021

    Problem : The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 disease (COVID-19) impacted medical learner well-being and serves as a unique opportunity to understand medical learner wellness. The authors designed a formal needs assessment to assess medical learners' perspectives regarding distress related to disrupted training environments. This Rapid Communication describes findings from a qualitative study which defined medical learner wellness and validated five…

  • An objective structured clinical exam to measure intrinsic CanMeds roles

    Open AccessAliya Kassam, Michèle Cowan et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2016

    An OSCE measuring intrinsic competence is feasible; however, further development of our cases and checklists is needed. We provide a model of how to develop an OSCE to measure intrinsic CanMEDS roles that educators may adopt as residency programs move into competency-based medical education

  • Stigma and Discrimination

    Jennifer Randall, Graham Thornicroft et al.CHAPTERMental Health and Human Rights2012

    Jennifer Randall, Graham Thornicroft, Elaine Brohan, Aliya Kassam, Elanor Lewis-Holmes, and Nisha Mehta consider forms of social exclusion and systematic disadvantage affecting people with mental disorders in all domains of life. They examine stigma as comprising ignorance, prejudice, and discrimination; relevant international human rights conventions; three Articles of a recent human rights convention to illustrate stigma as a critical human rig…

  • Discrimination in health care against people with mental illness

    Graham Thornicroft, Diana Rose et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Psychiatry2007

    This paper discusses factors associated with low rates of help-seeking and poorer quality of physical healthcare among people with mental illnesses. Evidence is reviewed on the associations between low rates of mental health literacy, negative attitudes towards people with mental illness, and reluctance to seek help by people who consider that they may have a mental disorder. People with mental illness often report encountering negative attitudes…

  • Stigma

    Open AccessGraham Thornicroft, Diana Rose et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Psychiatry2007

    The term stigma refers to problems of knowledge (ignorance), attitudes (prejudice) and behaviour (discrimination). Most research in this area has been based on attitude surveys, media representations of mental illness and violence, has only focused upon schizophrenia, has excluded direct participation by service users, and has included few intervention studies. However, there is evidence that interventions to improve public knowledge about mental…