Doha: Qatar University College of Medicine (QU-CMED) held on October 11 a workshop aimed to present a contextual model of communication which can be mapped on to professional expertise in an integrated manner, and to outline the theoretical and descriptive underpinnings of such an integrated perspective on communicative expertise while considering the challenges of assessment in educational and training settings. Themed “A Contextual Model of Healthcare Communication: Challenges for Description and Assessment”, the forum brought together health care professionals and researchers from several colleges within QU, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), and Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q).
Participants included QU VP for Medical Education and CMED Dean Dr Egon Toft, CMED Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Dr Hossam Hamdy, CMED Head of Basic Medical Science Department Prof Marwan Farouk Abu-Hijleh, and Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Assistant Medical Director of Professional Development Dr Ameeta Patel, as well as CMED faculty, staff, and students.
The programme agenda included lectures delivered by Prof Srikant Sarangi, Director of Danish Institute of Humanities and Medicine (DIHM) at Aalborg University, Denmark, on “An Overview of Concepts & Themes in Healthcare Communication” and “Analyzing Healthcare Communication Data from a Contextual Perspective”.
