Associate Professor in Rural and Remote Medical Education (NT)
Graduating in Medicine (MBBS) from the North Colombo Medical College, Sri Lanka (1994), Buddhika obtained the Doctor of Medicine (MD) in Forensic Medicine in 2002 after six years of post-graduate training in Sri Lanka, Australia (the Victorian Institute of Medicine) and the United Kingdom (University of Sheffield). She also obtained the Diploma in Medical Jurisprudence (DMJ) in the UK. Her work for the past 25 years involved cadaver teaching in the disciplines of Anatomy (as a teacher of Anatomy) and Pathology(as a Forensic Pathologist)
January 2009: Member,Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine (FFLM),United Kingdom
October 2005: Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education (CTHE), United Kingdom
January 2004: Diploma in Medical Jurisprudence (DMJ), United Kingdom
November 2002: Board Certification as a Specialist in Forensic Medicine, Sri Lanka
December 2001: MD (Forensic Medicine), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
September 1999: Diploma in Legal Medicine (DLM), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
June 1994: MBBS, North Colombo Medical College, Sri Lanka
Teaching and Curriculum development: key role in the NTMP in the smooth transition from a Problem Based Learning (PBL) curriculum to a Programmatic Assessment for Learning through Team Based Learning (TBL ) in 2016
Contribution to TBL curriculum: Preparation of study material, preparation and conducting Lectures, Practicals, assessments including multiple-choice questions, structured answer questions, ‘Drop-In’ sessions, Clarification sessions and Application sessions
The teaching includes year 1, 2 students of the NTMP on KHI topics and year 3 students on Health and Professional Society (HPS- Ethics).
Learning Coach for students in years 1-4:supporting students,ensuring that they are compliant with their course work, assignment deadliness and in their communications with their teachers through out their four years in the programme, since 2018.
Development of the Department of Anatomy in the NTMP, planning its curriculum and teaching/learning methods and enhancing its supporting infrastructure in terms of laboratory equipment and prosected specimens. Sourcing specimens and developing a fully functional Pathology Museum in the NTMP.