Basic Information

Name: Claudia Kiessling
Title: Professor
Institution: Witten/Herdecke University
Discipline: Medicine
Years of experience: 25

Description

Three keywords describing expertise and interest:

1. medical education

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

Work experience includes the development and implementation of medical education programmes, assessment, programme evaluation, and faculty development in medical education. Teaching experience includes problem based learning, clinical communication, teamwork, and professional identity formation (PIF). Research interests are the development and validation of assessment instruments in the field of clinical communication and the evaluation of educational interventions in medical education (mainly clinical communication, teamwork, aspects of PIF).

Brief biography:

Claudia Kiessling is a medical doctor by training with a Master degree in Public Health. Actually, she holds the position of a chair and professor for the education of personal and interpersonal commpetencies health care at the Department for Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. She has been involved in medical education since 1999, working in several universities in Germany and in Switzerland.