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Christopher Kowalski

Senior Associate Tutor (Medical Education)

Christopher.kowalski@psych.ox.ac.uk

About me

Dr Kowalski is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist working in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Simulation Lead for the trust having also held this position in his previous post in East London NHS Foundation Trust.

His experience in mental health simulation in particular has led to educational fellowships in Maudsley Simulation and at the University of Toronto. While in Toronto, he was a visiting scholar at the Wilson Centre.

Dr Kowalski is the Deputy Undergraduate lead for the Department of Psychiatry and co-lead of a special study theme on Clinical Education for 4^th year medical students.

His research explores the use of simulation-based education in mental health education as well as debriefing theory for this work.

Research

Book chapters

Kowalski, C., Attoe, C. (2020). Contemporary context and future directions in mental health education. In: D. Nestel, G. Reedy, L. McKenna and S. Gough (Eds.), Clinical Education for the Health Professions: Theory and Practice. Springer. In review.

Peer-reviewed articles

Naismith, L.M., Kowalski, C., Soklaridis, S., Kelly, A., Walsh, C.M. (2019). Participant perspectives on the contributions of physical, psychological, and sociological fidelity to learning in interprofessional mental health simulation. Simulation in Healthcare. 2020;15(3):141-146.

Piette, A. E., Attoe, C., Humphreys, R., Cross, S., & Kowalski, C. (2018). Interprofessional simulation training for community mental health teams: Findings from a mixed methods study. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 32(6), 762-770.

Kelly, A., McDiarmid, E., Jindani, F., Fernando, A., Naismith, L., Nirula L., Kowalski, C. (2018). Lessons learned: Implementing UK-developed interprofessional simulation training courses in a Canadian setting. Academic Psychiatry. 42(5):605-612.

Kowalski, C., Attoe, C., Ekdawi, I., Parry, C., Phillips, S., & Cross, S. (2017). Interprofessional simulation training to promote working with families and networks in mental health services. Academic Psychiatry. 42(5):659-663.

Kowalski, C. & Conn, R. (2017). Medical students’ perceptions of the use of feature films to teach the Mental State Examination. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning, 3:122-123.

Kowalski, C. & Bhalla, R. (2015). Viewing the Disney movie Frozen through a psychodynamic lens. Journal of Medical Humanities, 39(2):145-150.

Kowalski, C. & Sathanandan, S. (2015). The use of simulation to develop advanced communication skills relevant to psychiatry. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning,1:29-32.

Editorials

Kowalski, C. & Leonard, O. (2015). Growing trends in the pursuit of muscularity. British Journal of General Practice, 65(641):626-627.

Commentaries

Attoe, C., Kowalski, C., Fernando, A., Cross, S. (2016). Integrating mental health simulation into routine healthcare education. The Lancet Psychiatry; 3(8):702-703.