Biography
Bhavini manages GP and community placements for medical students on the new MBBS programme. This includes overseeing the registration and approval of educators, as well as developing and maintaining processes to monitor the quality of placements. Quality assurance is informed through student attendance, feedback from students and educators, and the escalation of any concerns, including fitness to practise issues, to the appropriate subcommittees or personnel.
She also manages the Placements Officer, who is responsible for the logistical coordination of student placement allocations.
Background
Bhavini has worked for eight years as an Undergraduate Teaching Coordinator at West Middlesex University Hospital. In this role, she was responsible for supporting approximately 600 Imperial medical students across a range of clinical attachments, including hospital-based placements, GP placements, and international electives from Maastricht University.
Her responsibilities included creating personalised timetables for each year group and specialty, providing student welfare support, and delivering face-to-face inductions for all incoming students. Among her key achievements were the digitalisation of student timetables, the creation of a student webpage, the organisation of local mock OSCEs for Year 3 students, the development of digital feedback systems for placement evaluation, and the coordination of annual governance visits involving Imperial College, the Trust Board, and teaching consultants.
Additional interests
Bhavini is also a registered nutritional therapist. Her most recent clinical role was as a bionutrient practitioner specialising in brain health, and she continues to see clients in her spare time to maintain her continuing professional development.
She is additionally a 300-hour trained yoga teacher and teaches yoga classes two to three times per week in the evenings.