Meera Manraj

Meera Manraj qualified in General Medicine at the Université d’Aix Marseille II, France in April 1988 and was employed 3 months later at the SSR Centre for Medical Research & Studies, University of Mauritius. She was registered in PhD studies at the University of Mauritius from 1996 to 2002 and was able to benefit from training for several months, through a World Bank funding, at the CNRS UPRES 8090 in a research project ““Insulin Resistance: Search for Candidate Genes with Reference to Patients with Early Myocardial Infarction” under the supervision of Professor Philippe Froguel.
PhD was awarded in 2003. When the research centre became part of a newly created Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Science of the University of Mauritius in 2004, she was mostly involved in teaching of modules in the BSc (Hons) Medical Science programme, a pre-clinical programme of 3 years duration that been initiated in 1998, and which was run in partnership with two UK universities and subsequently with a French university. In 2011 she was involved as a link Coordinator in the setting up of a full-fledged undergraduate medical programme, the curricular contents of which were largely inspired from the programme run by the University of Geneva with which the University of Mauritius signed a memorandum of Understanding since 2013. She was mostly responsible for the setting up and the running of the first part of the programme as the Bachelor of Medicine Coordinator. Three cohorts registered in the undergraduate medical programme offered in English medium have been able to graduate so far, the first cohort has recently been able to successfully register with the Medical Council of Mauritius.