Communication Toolkit for Health Professionals

Funder

European Association for the Study of Obesity.

ORCG Staff Member and Role

Dr. Grace O’Malley as Principal Investigator.

Dr. Maeve O’Brien as post-doctoral researcher and collaborator.

Aim

To design, develop, and implement/pilot an innovative strategy to improve healthcare professional education and training for optimising communication between primary healthcare professionals, parents and children presenting with overweight and obesity.

Collaborator Organisations

RCSI Health Professionals Education Centre.

RCSI SIM Centre for Simulation Education and Research.

Children’s Health Ireland.

Irish Coalition for People Living with Obesity.

Publications

O.O.8.6 – (WIP) Developing an empathy-informed Communications Toolkit for primary healthcare practitioners: Presenter(s): Maeve O’Brien, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Ireland