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Senior’s Name: Andy Ward
Availability: 1/3
Attending ICCH 2024: In person

Pairing - Junior

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

Learners I work with:

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Continuous Professional Development

Interests/expertise:

  • Assessment methods
  • Curriculum design / development
  • Experiential teaching methods (eg role play)
  • Educational research
  • Simulated patients
  • Train the trainers (faculty development)
  • Workplace based teaching

Years I have worked in communication skills learning: 19

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. empathy
  2. inclusion

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

Biography/CV:

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.

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