Acting - Filmmaking
Experiential Learning
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PROFESSIONAL ROLE PLAY
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Experience – training using role-play:
Medical Undergraduates: 1990 – present – communication skills training using the Calgary/Cambridge framework – Nottingham Medical School.
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Palliative Care: 1996 – present - ‘Dying to Communicate’ –
multi-disciplinary communication skills training within oncology and palliative care.
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Psychiatry: 1998 – present – psychiatric role-play across the UK and abroad, both within communication skills training and in OSCE settings, at under-graduateand post-graduate levels. Actor at the Royal College of Psychiatry CASC exams.
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Multi-disciplinary training in the management of crisis and conflict. Psychotherapy training.
Oxford University :– international centre for excellence – psychiatry 2011
General Practice: advanced training – handling difficult scenarios. GP Selection process.
East Midlands Healthcare Deanery: 2008 – 2010 - intensive consultation skills training with doctors in difficulty.
Nottingham Vocational Training Scheme: ‘Using the consultation as a learning resource’.
Clinical Psychology: University of Leicester: communication skills training with psychology under-graduates.
Selection process for the PhD in Clinical Psychology. Initiation of the use of actors in the training of clinical psychologists.
Telephone Consultations: for out of hours surgeries and emergency services, using the King’s College teaching model.
Work Focussed Health Related Assessment (WFHRA):Professional Role Players are used to allow HCPs to practice different questioning styles and methods of communication using role play. The WFHRA involves discussion only.
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Team Awards:
National Educator Development (UK) - Innovation in Clinical Education – 2011
Oxford Health Chief Executive’s Award for Innovation - 2011
Experience – overseas:
Training in communication skills within psychiatry – Hong Kong, Malta, Ireland, India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Egypt.
Areas of Special Interest:
1. Development of the use of film within experiential learning.
2. Consultation Skills within clinical education in cross-cultural settings.
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Video on youtube please click link.
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In this film, a psychiatrist assesses a man who has been referred by his GP. The patient demonstrates flight of ideas, pressure of speech, disinhibition, punning, grandiose delusions, and second person auditory hallucinations. His presentation is consistent with mania. Please note that this video has been made by the University of Nottingham ...
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