DrCriona Walshe

Criona's research interests centre on health professions education with particular focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of educational interventions, interprofessional education, active learning and the clinical learning environment.

Her current research includes exploring the use of co-design processes to build partnerships that integrate educational scholarship, clinical expertise and lived experience in the development of  health professions education resources; the evaluation of the impact of an interprofessional education programme on community health and social care team working, service users and the wider health system; and evaluating the use of virtual patients as a tool to support communication skills education among medical students.