Professor of Clinical Communication Skills and Lead for Team Based Learning
Graham will be working with the Queen Mary Academy as a Fellow from October 2023. The focus of his fellowship will be supporting co-creation with students and patients for the current curriculum review in undergraduate medicine.
Graham joined QMUL in January 2020 as Professor of Clinical and Communication Skills and is currently leading the development of Team-Based Learning in the medical school. His career has combined clinical general practice, medical journalism for the BBC and the British Medical Journal, and medical education. Before coming to QMUL he was acting Head of Undergraduate GP Teaching and then a Programme Director for Postgraduate GP Training at Imperial.
Graham has two main scholarship passions: communication (particularly in the doctor-patient consultation, but also with the wider public), and the power of narratives in teaching and learning. During Covid Graham developed a narrative-based online module to support students having conversations with vaccine-hesitant patients, and launched a public-facing podcast about communicating in clinical settings. He also collaborated with arts organisation Performing Medicine on a project “Communicating through Covid” which investigated how arts based approaches can support healthcare professionals through the communications challenges which arose from COVID-19.