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Senior’s Name: Inge Henselmans
Availability: 2/3
Attending ICCH 2024: In person

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Title: Assistant professor
Institution: Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam
Discipline: Psychology
Years of experience: 15

Teacher/Training

Learners I work with:

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Continuous Professional Development

Interests/expertise:

  • Curriculum design / development
  • Experiential teaching methods (eg role play)
  • Simulated patients

Years I have worked in communication skills learning: 15

Research

Areas of work:

  • End-of-life / palliative care
  • Oncology

Research methods:

  • Observational studies
  • (Quasi-)experiential designs
  • RCT
  • Video analysis

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. Advanced Cancer
  2. Shared Decision Making

Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

Consultation topics:
– Development and evaluation of the effects of communication skills training
– Research on communication about prognosis in advanced disease
– Topics related to Shared Decision Making
– Methods, e.g., coding observational data or the use of Standardized Patient Assesments in research
– Teaching communication skills in Medical School, Medical Specialist Training or training as part of Continous Medical Education

Biography/CV:

Dr. Inge Henselmans is an assistant professor at the department of Medical Psychology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She earned a master degree (2003) in Social Psychology with minors in Health and Clinical Psychology. After graduation, she was involved in research projects in different health care organizations. She earned her doctorate degree (2009) with a PhD thesis on the psychological well-being of women with breast cancer at the Health Psychology section of the University Medical Center, Groningen. She received a personal career-development grant from the Dutch Cancer Society in 2009, and again in 2013. Since, she has supervised research projects on (training in) shared decision making and prognostic communication in (palliative) cancer care. In addition, she coordinates the communication skills curriculum of the Medical School of the University of Amsterdam. Publciations: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Inge_Henselmans