Basic Information

Name: Andy Ward
Title: Associate Professor in Medical Education and Honorary Senior Academic GP
Institution: Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, Leicester Medical School, UK.
Discipline: Medicine
Years of experience: 19

Teacher/Training

• Undergraduate
• Postgraduate
• Continuous Professional Development

Description

Three keywords describing expertise and interest:

1. empathy
2. inclusion

Description of field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

My expertise and experience has been in:
Empathic communication
Clinical communication
Curriculum development
Assessment
Clinical reasoning
Inclusion healthcare
Remote consultations

Brief biography:

I am an Associate Professor in Medical Education and Honorary Senior Academic General Practitioner at the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare based at Leicester Medical School. My role is to develop innovative and evidence-based teaching interventions across the medical curriculum that will increase and sustain empathy in medical students. I have wide experience in producing teaching around patient-centred care and has presented on my work internationally. I also work as an inclusion health GP in Leicester.