Romany Martin, School of Health Sciences, CoHM*
Sibella Hardcastle, School of Health Sciences, CoHM
Bruce Moyle, School of Health Sciences, CoHM
Michele Dowlman, School of Health Sciences, CoHM
Marie-Louise Bird, School of Health Sciences, CoHM
Matthew Schmidt, School of Health Sciences, CoHM
Tracy Douglas, School of Health Sciences, CoHM
Andrew Williams, School of Health Sciences, CoHM*
Ensuring that health professional education is person-centred is vital in the pursuit of person-centred clinical care. One acknowledged approach to designing curriculum that is person-centred, is to embed resources that have been co-produced by patients with lived and living experience.
Within the School of Health Sciences, patient partners have been engaged to co-produce videos for students' curricula: with these videos used throughout the Exercise Science, Nursing and Physiotherapy courses. This Teaching Matters session details our work in this space.
Our first Patient Partners for Health Professional Education project aimed to provide a guideline for the inclusion of asynchronous interdisciplinary video resources co-produced by patients with lived and living experience (Martin et al., 2023a). Within this guideline, we recommended considering the following key domains: the opportunity presented by co-producing video resources with patient partners; how to undertake such processes and consideration of relevant design elements; and how to optimise patient partner videos within singular units and across disciplines.
In our update, we will discuss the embedment of patient partner videos for person-centred health professional curricula with consideration of the ladder of co-production (Think Local Act Personal, 2023) and discuss the underlying theory and the perceived benefits of such efforts (Martin et al., 2023b). Furthermore, we will explore the perceived benefits of including co-produced patient videos in health professional education across three time points in the student’s journey: basic sciences teaching and learning, entry to practice teaching and learning, and transition to practice teaching and learning.
Throughout both aims, the update highlights the benefits possible through collaboration with patient partners and the benefits of collaborating within a workplace. We reflect on the processes that facilitated the collaboration within our team, and our plans moving forward.
Patient partners for health professional education recording
Patient partners for health professional education slides
Martin, R., Hardcastle, S., Moyle, B., Dowlman, M., & Williams, A. (2023a). A guideline for optimising patients as partners in health professional education through asynchronous video resources. The Clinical Teacher. [Accepted – In Press].
Martin, R., Hardcastle, S., Bird, M., Douglas, T., Dowlman, M., Schmidt, M., & Williams, A. (2023b). Keeping the patient in view: An exploration of the theory supporting patient partner videos for person centered health professional curricula. Education in the Health Professions. [Under review].
Think Local Act Personal. (2023, August 15). Co-production: It’s a long-term relationship. https://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/_assets/COPRODUCTION/Ladder-of-coproduction.pdf