01Patient Care & Health Advocacy
World Health Day 2025
April 21, 2025
Staffed a blood pressure screening station, with diabetes education materials on hand for everyone who stopped by.
Read the full entry →Patient care starts before diagnosis.

Hi, I'm Afraa - a 4th-year MD student at Gulf Medical University. This portfolio tracks my clinical placements, research, and the work shaping my journey as a future doctor.
// About Afraa
I'm Afraa Asfaque, a fourth-year MD student at Gulf Medical University, Ajman, building a career on patient advocacy and evidence-based medicine. Outside the lecture hall, I've completed a four-week pediatric clinical observership at Dr. A.A. Chamadiya Children Clinic, co-presented original research on the gut-diet-mind relationship at GMU Research Day, and earned Good Clinical Practice certification through the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. I show up for my community too, from World Health Day blood-pressure screening to student-wellbeing workshops. The thread through it all: patient care starts before diagnosis, and the doctor I'm becoming is being shaped long before graduation.
// Competencies
The nine competency domains from Afraa’s ePortfolio - keep scrolling and the gallery unfolds.
// The Story
Everything I've done outside of lectures and exams - the awareness days I've shown up for, a clinic placement that actually changed how I think, and the research I got to be part of.
01Patient Care & Health Advocacy
April 21, 2025
Staffed a blood pressure screening station, with diabetes education materials on hand for everyone who stopped by.
Read the full entry →Patient care starts before diagnosis.

02Evidence-Based Practice
Dr. A.A. Chamadiya Children Clinic · 4 weeks · Jun–Jul 2025
Four continuous weeks inside a paediatric clinic - the placement that changed how I think about learning medicine.
Read the full entry →The depth of learning over four continuous weeks was noticeably different from anything shorter.
03Socially Accountable
April 25, 2025 · Gulf Medical University
“Gateway to Radiographers UAE Licensing Procedures” - a Certificate of Attendance programme on how radiography licensing actually works in the UAE.
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It's a running log more than a finished portfolio, so it'll keep growing as I do.
// The Research
Five Evidence-based Practitioner & Scholar entries, reproduced from my original ePortfolio.

EBP · 22 May 2026
GMU Research Day — Poster Presentation: The Gut-Diet-Mind Relationship
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EBP · 24 Apr 2026
SGH Neuroscience Conference 2026
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EBP · 23 Apr 2026
Good Clinical Practice Certification — NIDA Clinical Trials Network
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EBP · 15 Apr 2025
GMU Research Day
Read case file ↗EBP · 25 Apr 2024
International Conference on AI in Healthcare
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