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Future Medical Doctors Are Not Learning About Overweight and Obesity in Children: Curriculum Analysis at Five Australian Medical Schools Open

Emma Schwartzkoff, Terri Pikora, H. S. D. Garven, Michelle Gooey, Conor Gilligan , et al. · 2025

This short communication evaluates the inclusion of content about overweight and obesity in children within the curricula of five Australian medical schools. Despite the rising prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and its signi…

Preparedness for internship – a mixed-methods evaluation of the assistant in medicine program Open

Madeleine De Carle, Ricci Barel, Bethany Greentree, Conor Gilligan, Bunmi S. Malau‐Aduli , et al. · 2025

Purpose: The transition from medical student to doctor is often daunting. With compulsory hands-on clinical exposure and pre-internship training included in Australian medical education, this study aims to explore whether the Assistant in …

The development, delivery, and evaluation of novel longitudinal empathy-focused communication skills training at a UK medical school Open

Andrew Ward, Conor Gilligan, Amber Bennett‐Weston, Jeremy Howick · 2025

Environment-dependent selection impacts heritable developmental stability and trait canalization in rice Open

Taryn S. Dunivant, Irina Ćalić, Conor Gilligan, Zoé Joly‐Lopez, Jae Young Choi , et al. · 2025

Canalization, or the maintenance of trait values regardless of environmental or genetic variability, is fundamentally important for maintaining developmental stability. While this concept was described decades ago, we still know relatively…

Characteristics of Surgical Coaching Interventions: A Systematic Review Open

Benji Julien, Douglas Greer, Nicholas Bull, Boris Zevin, Christine J. O’Neill , et al. · 2025

Surgical coaching has been shown to be a promising intervention that requires more rigorous research to develop the field. We have identified 3 key domains which can be utilized to analyses and develop coaching interventions in the future.

Complexity and coding lifestyle talk in GP consultations Open

Sarah J. White, Lola Kruszelnicki, Taylor Grunsell, Conor Gilligan · 2025

Background Lifestyle risk factors, such as smoking, poor nutrition, alcohol use, and sedentary behaviour, are considered key intervention targets in general practice (GP). While GP consultations are well suited to preventative intervention…

Assessment of communication skills in health professions education; Ottawa 2024 consensus statement Open

Conor Gilligan, Maria Magdalena Bujnowska–Fedak, Geurt Essers, Wiebke Frerichs, Desirée Joosten-ten Brinke , et al. · 2024

Despite the increasing inclusion of communication skills in accreditation standards and an increase in time dedicated to teaching these skills, communication is often regarded as a separate skill and is therefore, not consistently represen…

A comparison of approaches to teaching clinical skills Open

Conor Gilligan, N.L. Jones, Eleonora Leopardi, Andra M Dabson, Benji Julien , et al. · 2024

Background: The most appropriate timing and mode for teaching clinical skills as preparation for medical students’ clinical rotations or clerkships is not widely agreed upon. Increasing pressure on placement opportunities has led to a shif…

Do the teaching, practice and assessment of clinical communication skills align? Open

Sari Dewi, Amanda Wilson, Robbert Duvivier, Brian Kelly, Conor Gilligan · 2024

Background Evidence indicates that communication skills teaching learnt in the classroom are not often readily transferable to the assessment methods that are applied nor to the clinical environment. An observational study was conducted to…

Do the teaching, practice and assessment of clinical communication skills align? Open

Sari Dewi, Amanda Wilson, Robbert Duvivier, Brian Kelly, Conor Gilligan · 2024

BackgroundEvidence indicates that communication skills teaching learnt in the classroom are not often readily transferable to the assessment methods that are applied nor to the clinical environment. An observational study was conducted to …

Referee report. For: Experiences Using Media Health Claims to Teach Evidence-Based Practice to Healthcare Students: A Mixed Methods Study [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations] Open

Conor Gilligan · 2024

Enhancing effective healthcare communication in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Considerations for research, teaching, policy, and practice Open

Sarah J. White, Brendan Condon, Philippa Ditton-Phare, Natalie Dodd, John Gilroy , et al. · 2023

Perceptions of medical students and their facilitators on clinical communication skills teaching, learning, and assessment Open

Sari Dewi, Amanda Wilson, Robbert Duvivier, Brian Kelly, Conor Gilligan · 2023

Introduction Despite various efforts to develop communication skills (CS) in the classroom, the transfer of these skills into clinical practice is not guaranteed. This study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators of transferring CS fr…

Measuring the Impact of a Faculty Development Program on Clinical Educators Open

Balakrishnan Nair, Conor Gilligan, Brian Jolly · 2022

Balakrishnan R Nair, Conor Gilligan, Brian Jolly School of Medicine and Public Health, and Academy of Clinical Educators, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, AustraliaCorrespondence: Conor GilliganSchool of Medicine and Public Health,…

Interventions for Improving medical students' interpersonal communication in medical consultations; Considering the evidence in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic Open

Conor Gilligan · 2021

Our recently published Cochrane review[1] scrutinized evidence for communication training programs in medical education. While the importance of effective communication between clinicians and patients is universally accepted,[23] the effec…

Social Anxiety, Cannabis Use Motives, and Social Context’s Impact on Willingness to Use Cannabis Open

Elise Garrison, Conor Gilligan, Benjamin O. Ladd, Kristen G. Anderson · 2021

Social anxiety is often purported to be a risk factor for increased cannabis use. Cannabis use motives are strong explanatory predictors of cannabis use embedded within social contexts. This investigation explored the impact of social anxi…

Interventions for improving medical students' interpersonal communication in medical consultations Open

Conor Gilligan, Martine B. Powell, Marita Lynagh, Bernadette Ward, Chris Lonsdale , et al. · 2021

Background: Communication is a common element in all medical consultations, affecting a range of outcomes for doctors and patients. The increasing demand for medical students to be trained to communicate effectively has seen the emergence …

Critical observations on and suggested ways forward for healthcare communication during COVID-19: pEACH position paper Open

Sarah J. White, Serena Barello, Eugenia Cao di San Marco, Cinzia Colombo, Edgard Eeckman , et al. · 2020

Medical identity; perspectives of students from two countries Open

Conor Gilligan, Teresa Loda, Florian Junne, Stephan Zipfel, Brian Kelly , et al. · 2020

Do schools and alcohol mix? Australian parents' perspectives Open

Conor Gilligan, Thérèse Shaw, S. Beatty, Laura Thomas, Karen Lombardi , et al. · 2020

Purpose Alcohol use by adults at school events and alcohol promotion through school fundraising activities is common, but little is known about secondary school parents' attitudes towards these practices. Parental attitudes may influence p…

Assessing the training needs of medical students in patient information gathering Open

Conor Gilligan, Sonja P. Brubacher, Martine B. Powell · 2020

Assessing the training needs of medical students in patient information gathering; a qualitative study Open

Conor Gilligan, Sonja P. Brubacher, Martine B. Powell · 2020

Background Effective communication is at the heart of good medical practice but rates of error, patient complaints, and poor clinician job satisfaction are suggestive of room for improvement in this component of medical practice and educat…

Assessing the training needs of medical students in patient information gathering; a qualitative study Open

Conor Gilligan, Sonja P. Brubacher, Martine B. Powell · 2019

Background Effective communication is at the heart of good medical practice but rates of error, patient complaints, and poor clinician job satisfaction are suggestive of room for improvement in this component of medical practice and educat…

Inaccuracies in survey reporting of alcohol consumption Open

Conor Gilligan, Kristen G. Anderson, Benjamin O. Ladd, Yun Ming Yong, Michael David · 2019

Integrated simulation-based skills assessment for evaluating pharmacist competence: A scoping review Open

Hayley Croft, Beverley Glass, Conor Gilligan, Rohan Rasiah, Tracy Levett‐Jones · 2019

© 2019 FIP. Background: Integrated assessment of health professional competence more closely represents performance of tasks in clinical practice, than assessment models that evaluate fragmented competencies. Simulation continues to expand…

Current Trends and Opportunities for Competency Assessment in Pharmacy Education–A Literature Review Open

Hayley Croft, Conor Gilligan, Rohan Rasiah, Tracy Levett‐Jones, Jennifer Schneider · 2019

An increasing emphasis on health professional competency in recent times has been matched by an increased prevalence of competency-based education models. Assessments can generate information on competence, and authentic, practice-based as…

Assessing the training needs of medical students in patient information gathering; a qualitative study Open

Conor Gilligan, Sonja P. Brubacher, Martine B. Powell · 2019

Background Effective communication is at the heart of good medical practice but rates of error, patient complaints, and poor clinician job satisfaction are suggestive of room for improvement in this component of medical practice and educat…

Face yourself! - learning progress and shame in different approaches of video feedback: a comparative study Open

Anne Herrmann‐Werner, Teresa Loda, Rebecca Erschens, Priska Schneider, Florian Junne , et al. · 2019

There was no superior approach as such. But CL could be shown to be less effective than G, ST and T. Feelings of shame were higher before watching one's video feedback than in hindsight. There was no significant difference regarding the di…

Whole‐of‐community interventions to reduce population‐level harms arising from alcohol and other drug use: a systematic review and meta‐analysis Open

Emily Stockings, Kate Bartlem, Alix Hall, Rebecca K Hodder, Conor Gilligan , et al. · 2018

Background and aims Whole‐of‐community interventions aim to reduce alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and harms by mobilizing community leaders, organizations and policy‐makers to respond effectively to AOD use. The aim of this review is to …

Child‐parent agreement on alcohol‐related parenting: Opportunities for prevention of alcohol‐related harm Open

Thérèse Shaw, Robyn Johnston, Conor Gilligan, Nyanda McBride, Laura Thomas · 2018

Issue addressed Excessive alcohol consumption places adolescents at increased risk of preventable, acute alcohol‐related injury. Parental attitudes and behaviours influence adolescents’ alcohol use. This study examined alignment in parent …

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