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Senior’s Name: Deborah Critoph
Availability: 0/3
Attending ICCH 2024: In person
Title: PhD student
Institution: University of Cambridge
Discipline: Nursing
Years of experience: 22
Teacher/Training
Learners I work with:
- Continuous Professional Development
Interests/expertise:
- Workplace based teaching
Years I have worked in communication skills learning: 9
Research
Areas of work:
Research methods:
Keywords describing expertise and interest:
- Other
- co-design
- continuous professional development
Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:
I am specifically in interesting in:
Building a relationship with young people, triadic communication and end of life care communication. Further details in the biography.
Biography/CV:
I am a registered general nurse who has specialised in adolescent and young adult cancer (AYAC). I was the first appointed young adult cancer nurse specialist in 2007. I worked with Dr Helen Hatcher to develop services from a standing start for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust making it the first principal treatment centre for East Anglia. During this time, I completed a post graduate certificate in education (PGCE) and Masters in Young Adult Cancer Care at Coventry University and contributed as a lecturer on that course.
In 2015 I moved into clinical education and have been teaching clinical communication skills to undergraduate medical students and facilitating advanced communication skills to interdisciplinary professionals across the region. I also gained the status of fellow of higher education association (FHEA) and maintained clinical work as a late effects nurse specialist.
I am currently a Wellcome funded PhD student at Cambridge University combining my two areas of specialist interest: clinical communication and AYAC. I am researching triadic communication and aim to develop a training intervention in a large qualitative co-design study to educate healthcare professionals to communicate effectively with young people with cancer.
 E-mail: dc625@cam.ac.uk
 Twitter: @critoph_debbie
 Recent publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-1762