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Senior’s Name: Claudia Kiessling
Availability: 1/3
Attending ICCH 2024: In person

Pairing - Junior

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

Teacher/Training

Learners I work with:

  • Undergraduate

Interests/expertise:

  • Assessment methods
  • Curriculum design / development
  • Educational research

Years I have worked in communication skills learning: 25

Research

Areas of work:

  • Curriculum development
  • Medical education
  • Patient-centeredness

Research methods:

  • Delphi and consensus finding methods
  • Observational studies
  • Systematic literature review
  • Test development/validation studies

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. medical education

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).

Biography/CV:

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.