Waqar M. Naqvi

About

International scholar, educator, and founder with sixteen years of experience across health professions education, AI integration, digital health innovation, and research development, working across Qatar, the UAE, India, Saudi Arabia, Cameroon, and North America. I hold doctoral degrees in Health Professions Education and Physiotherapy, with a focus on designing scalable learning systems, AI-enabled research infrastructure, and healthcare education models.

As Vice Dean, Associate Director of Research, and Head of Department, I built faculty mentoring systems and publication pipelines that improved research output and postgraduate completion rates. I led PhyCARE, an international reporting guideline published in BMJ Open and listed on the EQUATOR Network, and currently lead the TEACH project in health professions education research. As an International FAIMER Fellow and founder of early-stage research and AI-health ventures, my work centres on generative AI in education, evidence synthesis, and building rigorous, adaptable learning and research ecosystems.

Employment

• Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research Research Scholar
  2023 - 2026
• Gulf Medical University Assistant Professor
  2023 - 2024
• NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital Associate director
  2021 - 2023
• MGM School of Physiotherapy Aurangabad Campus
  2021 - 2021
• Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences - Wardha Campus Professor
  2019 - 2021
• Buraydah Colleges Lecturer
  2014 - 2017

Education

• Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research PhD
  2023 - 2026
• Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences Ph.D
  2019 - 2022
• Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University) Masters
  2007 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (222)

• Sample size determination across study designs in health professions education research: a methodology guide [version 1; peer review: 3 approved with reservations]
  2026 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.185853.1
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• The research we never questioned: What artificial intelligence is revealing in health professions education
  Medical Teacher 2026 DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2026.2667279
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• PhyCARE reporting guidelines for physiotherapy case reports: a consensus-based development 
  BMJ Open 2026 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110765
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• The Digital Shift in Fracture Recovery: Immersive VR–Based Rehabilitation after Colle’s Fracture (DRF Trial)
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6911641
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• Single exercise into pain versus symptom modification mediated exercises in people with rotator cuff-related shoulder pain: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 not approved]
  2025 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.164912.1
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• Critical thinking in the age of generative AI: implications for health sciences education
  Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 2025 DOI: 10.3389/FRAI.2025.1571527
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• STUDENT-DRIVEN RESEARCH ACUMEN IN HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION FROM CLASSROOM TO CONTRIBUTION: NARRATIVE REVIEW OF CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
  ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT 2025 DOI: 10.24083/APJHM.V20I1.3501
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• Artificial Intelligence in OSCE: Innovations and Implications for Medical Education Assessment – A Systematic Review
  2024 2nd DMIHER International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Education and Industry (IDICAIEI) 2024 DOI: 10.1109/idicaiei61867.2024.10842789
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• Systematic Review of Recent ChatGPT updates on Reporting of Radiology Cases with Reference to Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine
  2024 2nd DMIHER International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Education and Industry (IDICAIEI) 2024 DOI: 10.1109/idicaiei61867.2024.10842881
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• Hello AI: Is it Time for A Revolutionary Change in the Health Professional Education System?
  European Journal of Therapeutics 2024 DOI: 10.58600/eurjther2201
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