The Patient and Community Partnership for Education at UBC Health has been awarded a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada/Associated Medical Services CanMEDS research grant. The grant funds projects that instill and sustain compassion, empathy, and professional values in the environments in which health professionals learn and work.

A team of faculty, students, residents, and patient/public co-investigators will create a set of evidence-based guiding principles, models, and processes for the authentic, responsive, ongoing, and sustainable engagement of patients and the public in the mission, goals, curriculum, and delivery of medical education at UBC.

The project will help UBC’s distributed medical program engage patients and members of the public to define and address the priority health concerns in British Columbia. Its long-term goal is to make medical education more responsive to the needs of patients and society.

“This project is critical to understanding how medical schools can authentically and meaningfully partner with patients and communities in fulfilling our social accountability mandate to the people we serve,” says Dr. Cheryl Holmes, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine.

The project is expected to be completed in late 2022. For more information, visit the project website.

Posted December 1, 2021