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Katie Webb

About Me

Katie is a Professor of Medical Education, an IHI Improvement Advisor and Senior Personal Tutor for the Undergraduate Medical Programme at the School of Medicine, Cardiff University. She is an internationally recognised expert in the education and training of health professionals. Katie works at the boundaries of psychology and applied social science, exploring and understanding stress management and behaviour change, and how education research makes a difference to clinicians’ workplace practice and hence has an impact on patient care. Her teaching and research portfolio focuses on education, training and wellbeing of doctors and allied health professionals, leading high impact evaluations in health-related education and training such as HEE’s Supported Return to Training (SuppoRTT) and HEE’s Undergraduate Pharmacists Clinical Placement Pilots. In her current role she leads on research examining preparedness for practice; transitions; identity; quality improvement (primary and secondary care); burnout; gender; equity and fairness in the workplace and the impact of neurodiversity in the education and training of doctors. Katie is the author/co-author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications on medical education, including a commissioned book by Wiley-Blackwell, ‘How to Succeed at Revalidation’. She is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, member of the British Psychological Society and core member of Stopping Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Medicine – a UK Medical School collaboration. Katie was the inventor of CARDIPH, a novel card game designed to enhance the teaching approaches of healthcare professionals (www.cardiph.com).

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