TY - JOUR
T1 - Twelve tips for patient involvement in health professions education
AU - Eijkelboom, Charlotte
AU - Brouwers, Marianne
AU - Frenkel, Joost
AU - van Gurp, Petra
AU - Jaarsma, Debbie
AU - de Jonge, Roos
AU - Koksma, Jur
AU - Mulder, Dante
AU - Schaafsma, Evelyn
AU - Sehlbach, Carolin
AU - Warmenhoven, Franca
AU - Willemen, Agnes
AU - de la Croix, Anne
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Moving towards person-centered care, with equal partnership between healthcare professionals and patients, requires a solid role for the patient in the education of students and professionals. Patients can be involved as teachers, assessors, curriculum developers, and policy-makers. Yet, many of the initiatives with patients are isolated, small events for targeted groups and there is a lack of patient involvement at the institutional level. To support educators in involving patients, both at the institutional level and at single educational encounters, we offer twelve practical tips. This paper came about through an innovative collaboration between healthcare professionals, educators, teachers, and patients. These tips can be used as a tool to start or reinforce patient involvement in health professions education and provide guidance on how to make it a sustainable part of the curriculum. The article involves organizational conditions for success, tips for sustainable partnerships, ideas for curriculum design and proposes concrete teaching strategies. Finally, besides practical tips, we stress that involving patients in education is not business as usual, and paradoxically this needs to be acknowledged before it can become business as usual.
AB - Moving towards person-centered care, with equal partnership between healthcare professionals and patients, requires a solid role for the patient in the education of students and professionals. Patients can be involved as teachers, assessors, curriculum developers, and policy-makers. Yet, many of the initiatives with patients are isolated, small events for targeted groups and there is a lack of patient involvement at the institutional level. To support educators in involving patients, both at the institutional level and at single educational encounters, we offer twelve practical tips. This paper came about through an innovative collaboration between healthcare professionals, educators, teachers, and patients. These tips can be used as a tool to start or reinforce patient involvement in health professions education and provide guidance on how to make it a sustainable part of the curriculum. The article involves organizational conditions for success, tips for sustainable partnerships, ideas for curriculum design and proposes concrete teaching strategies. Finally, besides practical tips, we stress that involving patients in education is not business as usual, and paradoxically this needs to be acknowledged before it can become business as usual.
KW - Communication
KW - Health professions education
KW - Patient involvement
KW - Person-centeredness
KW - Professionalism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85143380197&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.pec.2022.09.016
DO - 10.1016/j.pec.2022.09.016
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
C2 - 36266155
AN - SCOPUS:85143380197
SN - 0738-3991
VL - 106
SP - 92
EP - 97
JO - Patient Education and Counseling
JF - Patient Education and Counseling
ER -