Assistant professor

Irene Carvalho holds a PhD from Northwestern University (United States of America). She is a professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Porto, Portugal, teaching clinical communication at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is the current director of the Master’s program in Clinical Communication of that same School and the president of the Portuguese Society for Clinical Communication in Health Care (SP3CS). In addition to the FCT-funded project, Evidence-Based Metaphors for Diabetes Care (PTDC/FER‐FIL/28278/2017), she has been part of the Erasmus+ project, Therapy 2.0 – Counselling and Therapeutic Interactions with Digital Natives (2016-1-DE02-KA202-003245) and the EEA Grants project, IoGeneration – Iodine Status in Portugal: the role of supplements in School Ages (Ref. 153NU2).

• Martins, R. G., & Carvalho, I. P. (2019). Psychometric Properties of the MICRA Questionnaire in Portuguese Individuals Carrying SDHx Mutations. Journal of Cancer Education, 1-8.
• Rocha, J., & Carvalho, I. P. (2019). The influence of professionals’ empathy on parents’ anxiety in cases of juvenile criminology. Social work, 64(3), 242-252.
• Pestana-Santos, A., Loureiro, L., Santos, V., & Carvalho, I. P. (2018). Patients with schizophrenia assessing psychiatrists’ communication skills. Psychiatry research, 269, 13-20.
• Carvalho, I. P., Pais, V. G., Silva, F. R., Martins, R., Figueiredo-Braga, M., Pedrosa, R., Almeida, S. S., Correia, L., Ribeiro-Silva, R., Castro-Vale, I., Teles, A., & Mota-Cardoso, R. (2014). Teaching communication skills in clinical settings: Comparing two applications of a comprehensive programme with standardized and real patients. BMC Medical Education, 14, 92-100.

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