Rate My Professor Kay Mohanna

Professor Kay Mohanna serves as Professor of Values Based Healthcare Education and Founding MBChB Programme Lead at the Three Counties Medical School, University of Worcester, where she joined in 2015 as part of the senior leadership team. Holding qualifications including MBChB, FRCGP, DCH, PGDipMedEd, MA in Medical Ethics, EdD, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and National Teaching Fellow, she is a partner in general practice and an experienced GP trainer specializing in supporting trainees in difficulty. Her career encompasses developing and delivering three Masters in Medical Education programmes, running face-to-face training in seven countries, and collaborating internationally with organizations such as the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and iHEED Medical Education. Mohanna holds external roles as International Development Advisor for the Royal College of General Practitioners for South Asia, quality assurance provider for MRCGP International in the region, and GMC examiner for the Professional and Linguistics Assessment Board. She chairs the Medical Education Committee of Doctors Worldwide, authored the RCGP eLearning module on Allyship, and has delivered invited lectures on values-based practice and leadership while co-supervising PhD research on self-determination theory in medical training.

Her research interests center on fairness in assessment, particularly the experiences of international medical graduates in UK GP training clinical skills assessments analyzed through conversation analysis of small talk in consultations, alongside values-based practice and leadership. Mohanna has written, edited, or co-authored 14 books on medical education topics, including 'Teaching Made Easy: A Manual for Health Professionals' (fourth edition, 2023), and serves on the editorial board of Education for Primary Care, co-leading its short reports section. Notable recent publications include 'Family medicine (FM) in the undergraduate curriculum' (2023) and contributions to clinical leadership and humanitarian medicine fellowships. She has received the National Teaching Fellowship (2015) for overseas faculty development, Honorary Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Educators (2023), and Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Organisation for National Colleges and Associations of Primary Care (2025) for advancing primary care in South Asia, including founding the Worcester Fellowship scheme for Sri Lankan family physicians, many of whom now hold leadership positions. Mohanna has also trained staff in the Rohingya refugee camp, including during the Covid-19 pandemic, and returned to frontline general practice.