Fiona Moir — YRD

Fiona Moir

University of Auckland, NZ, New Zealand

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Dr Fiona Moir – MBChB, MRCGP Fiona trained in the UK at Sheffield University, and went on to work as a GP in Britain and New Zealand. She is a Senior Lecturer in The Department of General Practice and in the Medical Programme Directorate at The University of Auckland, teaching both post-graduate and undergraduate students, where she specializes in Communication Skills, Mental Health and Student and Practitioner Wellbeing. She is also the co-head of the Personal and Professional Skills Domain for the whole medical programme, Lead for The Health and Wellbeing curriculum at the medical school in Auckland, and has a role providing pastoral care to medical students. As a partner in Connect Communications, a business teaching communication skills to health professionals, she is involved in teaching doctors, nurses and pharmacists around the country. In 2008, she was one of the co-authors of the CALM website, a resource for stress management and happiness, which was originally made available to students and then later released to the public. Her interests are: the health of health professionals; early interventions for stress, anxiety and depression; self-care, and communication skills. She has just passed her doctoral examination with a PhD topic about medical student wellbeing.