Dr Dilmini Karunaratne

Dilmini joined the University of Dundee, School of Medicine in April 2023 as a lecturer at the Centre for Medical Education. She has over nine years of work experience in Health Professions Education facilitating student learning, staff development, and continuing professional development. Dilmini also holds a fellowship of the higher education academy. 

Dilmini completed her MD Medical Education at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2019, with a thesis titled;  ‘Clinical reasoning and its challenges at the workplace: A qualitative study with novice medical graduates in Sri Lanka’. Since then, she has continued to have a special interest in this area and in qualitative research. Dilmini has a medical background and a master’s in biomedical informatics which feeds into her interests in technology applications in education. 

Dilmini is passionate about Medical Education and finds it exciting to have diverse topics and areas that come with it to learn and explore. She enjoys and finds it fulfilling to support and facilitate the development of trainees. She has supervised MSc research projects on varying medical education topics in her previous role at the Hull York Medical School and continues to do the same in her current role. She was awarded the Excellence in Teaching award for the year 2020/2021 for undergraduate research supervision by the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka during her tenure there.