Dr Anita Laidlaw

SMERC Member

Telephone: 01334 463561

Email: ahl1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

Anita Laidlaw has been a member of the Medical Education Research Executive component of SMERC since it formed in Sep 2011. She is a Principal Teaching Fellow in the Medical School, University of St Andrews where she is Convenor of the Clincial Communication strand within the BSc Medicine programme.

She is also controller of a Module for an MSc Health Psychology (Stage 1 training for Chartered Health Psychologist) and Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Research, also at the University of St Andrews. She has developed two programmes of research in healthcare education: psychological factors influencing clinical communication; and student psychological well being and is interested in designing and testing interventions or training which assist individuals within both areas.

Research interests:

• Psychological well being
• Interventions to promote resilience
• Development of burnout
• Attitudes towards psychological wellbeing and psychological wellbeing difficulties
• Healthcare communication
• Clinical communication training
• Inter-professional communication
• Identification of individuals with poorly performing clinical communication
• Interventions for individual with poorly performing clinical communication