UCL MSc Health Psychology – Request for clinical visits

UCL MSc Health Psychology programme team is looking for health professionals who can offer clinic visits to their master students.
As part of module Health Care & Intervention Delivery (IEHC0023), students on the MSc Health Psychology are required to attend half-day clinical visits to observe doctor-patient communication. The key learning would be that students can observe communication skills so the consultation would need to have relatively well-rounded objectives not just giving information, so clear emphasis on eliciting information from the patient, open ended questioning, ideally giving advice relating to health-related behaviour.

The learning objectives for clinical visits are as follows:
• Students will have an opportunity to observe consultations between healthcare professionals and patients.
• Students should be encouraged to consider relevant practical and ethical issues such as confidentiality, data protection etc.
• Students should have an opportunity to consider the healthcare professionals’ perspectives of a typical consultation with patients in their clinics.
• Students may also wish to consider reflections on the practical experiences of healthcare professionals in general e.g., dealing with difficult clients, those less willing to engage, time constraints etc.

If you are interested to provide any face-to-face clinical visits for our students between Feb and March 2025, please contact Sandra Soria Medina at s.medina@ucl.ac.uk