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Keywords

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Literacy; Mental Health; Psychometrics; Self-Assessment

Research interests

Mag. Dr. Michaela Wagner-Menghin (PhD) works as an Associate Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division for Social Psychiatry, where she specialises in the learning of medical and health profession students and in determinants of helping and help-seeking behaviour. With a focus on self-regulated learning of communication skills, Michaela earned a PhD from Maastricht University, concentrating on how students and supervisors use cues when self-judging or judging communication performance. Her work experience includes roles such as a researcher and lecturer in Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology (Vienna), and as a researcher in psychometrics in industry.  Mag. Dr Wagner-Menghin is currently actively engaged in research on the influence of attitudes towards illness, treatment, and help-seeking or giving on students' behavioural intentions and behaviour when interacting with patients.

Selected publications

1. Altmann, P. Fasching, B., Rothschedl, T., Matuschitz, S., Krajnc, N., Ebner, J., Handgraaf, M., Gottfried, K., Rommer, P. S., Berger, T., & Wagner-Menghin, M. (2025) ‘Building interprofessional identity in neurology with interactive interprofessional learning: a randomized controlled trial’, BMC Medical Education, 25(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-07492-1.
2. Heber, S. Wagner-Menghin, M., Volf, I., Rupnik, M., Schmid, D., Marz, R., & Fischer, M. J. M. (2024) ‘Short-term cognitive learning outcomes in team-based learning: is the permanent team important?’, Medical Education Online, 29(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2024.2397864.
3. Wagner-Menghin, M. Hofhansl, A., Bach, L., Mayer, A. M., Rieder, A., & Zlabinger, G. (2024) ‘Determinants of undergraduate medical students’ satisfaction with clinical supervision: A cohort study in a longitudinally structured sixth year clinical placement’, Wiener klinische Wochenschrift [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-024-02477-4.
4. Wagner-Menghin, M., de Bruin, A.B.H. and van Merriënboer, J.J.G. (2020) ‘Communication skills supervisors’ monitoring of history-taking performance: an observational study on how doctors and non-doctors use cues to prepare feedback’, BMC Medical Education, 20(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1920-4.
5. Wagner-Menghin, M., de Bruin, A. and van Merriënboer, J.J.G. (2015) ‘Monitoring communication with patients: analyzing judgments of satisfaction (JOS)’, Advances in Health Sciences Education, 21(3), pp. 523–540. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-015-9642-9.