Patient as teacher sessions contextualize learning, enhancing knowledge, communication, and participation of pharmacy students in the United Kingdom
Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of Patient As Teacher (PAT) sessions on the knowledge, communication skills, and participation of pharmacy students in the United Kingdom.
"I felt some prejudice in the back of my head": Nursing students' perspectives on learning about mental health from "Experts by Experience"
WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Consumer participation in mental health services is embedded in mental health policy in many countries.
Outcomes of Consumer Involvement in Mental Health Nursing Education: An Integrative Review
This integrative review analyzed the research on consumer involvement in mental health nursing education in the last decade. We aimed to derive the main contents, methods, and outcomes of education using consumer involvement for mental health nursing students. We searched six electronic databases using English and Korean search terms; two authors independently reviewed the 14 studies that met the selection criteria. Studies on the topic were concentrated in Australia and some European countries; most of them used a qualitative design.
Active involvement of patients in pharmacist education has a positive impact on students' perspective: a pilot study
Background: Patient-led education contributes to the implementation of practical experience of working with patients in health care professional curricula. There are few descriptions of patients' involvement in pharmacists' training and most often, the patients have been used as passive props to facilitate training. More recently, greater emphasis has been given to a more active form of patient involvement but the application in the curriculum of pharmacy has not been conceptualized.
Active patient involvement in the education of health professionals
Context: Patients as educators (teaching intimate physical examination) first appeared in the 1960s. Since then, rationales for the active involvement of patients as educators have been well articulated. There is great potential to promote the learning of patient-centred practice, interprofessional collaboration, community involvement, shared decision making and how to support self-care.
Methods: We reviewed and summarised the literature on active patient involvement in health professional education.
Medical student perspectives on conducting patient experience debrief interviews with hospitalized children and their families
Purpose
To explore how medical students completing a pediatric clerkship viewed the benefits and barriers of debrief interviews with hospitalized patients and families.
Methods
In this study, focus groups were conducted with pediatric clerkship students after completion of a debrief interview. The constant comparative method was used with Mezirow’s transformative learning theory as a lens to explore perceptions of the benefits and challenges of performing the interview.
Results
A Model to Promote Public Health by Adding Evidence-Based, Empathy-Enhancing Programs to All Undergraduate Health-care Curricula
Fostering empathy in future health-care providers through service-learning is emerging as central to public health promotion. Patients fare better when their caregivers have higher relationship-centered characteristics such as the ones measured by the Jefferson Scale of Empathy. Unfortunately, these characteristics often deteriorate during health-care professional training. Nevertheless, growing literature documents how we can promote empathy, and other patient-centered characteristics, throughout health-care professional students’ undergraduate education.
Effect of expert-patient teaching on empathy in nursing students: a randomized controlled trial
Background: Empathy is a relevant clinical competence for nursing students. Involvement of expert patients in nursing education could help students develop their innate capacity to empathize. Objective: To evaluate the effect of expert-patient teaching on empathy development in nursing students. Methods: This randomized controlled trial was conducted among 144 first-year undergraduate nursing students divided into two equal groups.
WORKING AND LEARNING TOGETHER IN RURAL HOSPITALS: ENGAGING ACROSS BOUNDARIES TO ENHANCE COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
The aim of this thesis is to establish how interprofessional education (IPE) can promote interprofessional learning (IPL) and enhance collaborative practice in rural health settings. Furthermore, it examines five different types of IPE activities to find out how IPE or IPL might promote or influence collaborative practice in rural hospitals. Rural practice was the main focus because the research has been conducted by an experienced rural clinician.
The research approach is qualitative and reflects a social constructivist perspective.
Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America: A Decadal Survey of the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research in the social and behavioral sciences points to possibilities for preventing or slowing the development of dementia and for substantially reducing its social and economic impacts. At the request of the National Institute on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a consensus study using a decadal survey to assess the contributions of research in the social and behavioral sciences. This report complements an array of initiatives occurring as part of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer's.
