Hélène Givron

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Hélène Givron is a clinical psychologist with a doctorate in biomedical sciences. She is a lecturer and educational coordinator at the University of Namur.

She works in the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Medicine. There, she teaches (inter)professional communication in healthcare to bachelor's students in medicine and pharmaceutical sciences and to master's students in nursing sciences. 

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Research institutes

Transitions - Membre

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Domains of expertise

Expertise in teaching professional communication in healthcare:

  • trained in simulation-based teaching 
  • trained by EACH (International Association for Communication in Healthcare) in teaching communication skills to a range of healthcare professionals in French and English

External responsibilities

  • Member of the Sifem ‘Professional Communication in Healthcare’ group: https://www.sifem.net/fr/communication-professionnelle-en-sante
  • FMER Collaborator (Family Medicine Education Research Group Mc Gill): Collaborators | Family Medicine Education Research (fmer-remf.ca)
  • Member of the Transitions Research Institute at UNamur

Degrees

  • Doctoral thesis in Biomedical Sciences on ‘Medical students’ attitudes towards learning professional communication in healthcare’ (UNamur)   
  • Certificate in ‘Hypnosis and brief therapy’ (IGB, Paris)
  • Master's degree in Adult Clinical Psychology (TCC) at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), dissertation on mindfulness and emotional regulation (Moïra Mikolajczak)
  • Introductory training in NVC (NVC, Belgium)
  • Participation in a mindfulness cycle (UCLouvain)

2025-2026

2023-2024

This person also has a profile on the UNamur research portal.

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