Reaching over 1700 people in the community and the university, this newsletter promotes patient and community involvement in health professional education at UBC.
Patient Engagement in Education 'Gallery Walk'
Patient and Community Partnership for education invites UBC faculty and colleagues to explore new ways to engage patients in your educational programs.
The 'Gallery Walk' is an opportunity to meet patient educators and find out about the many different ways they can be involved in student learning at UBC.
Six Health Mentors have filmed video vignettes for the human living library. The project will increase student access to patients sharing their lived expertise through a short digital ‘book or trailer’ on their health experiences.
The videos will debut at the 'Gallery Walk' in June to explore how they could be used to extend classroom learning. The first books include personal accounts of health care and caregiver experiences that illustrate common topics in health professional education such as health care ethics, professionalism, communication, patient-centred care and much more!
Additional digital books are planned that include biographical sketches, animations, comics and artwork, pictures, quotes from family, videos of adaptations to mentors’ homes, as well as information on treatments, medications, assistive devices and technology.
If you are a Health Mentor interested in creating a book or a faculty/student interested in a particular topic, please contact jen.macdonald@ubc.ca.
Want to help teach the next generation of health care professionals?
The UBC Health Mentors Program is looking for volunteer patients or caregivers to help new health care students learn about patient-centered care.
Health mentors are adults with chronic conditions/disabilities or caregivers who provide care to someone with a chronic condition. Over 16 months, small student groups visit their mentors 2 or 3 times a semester, focusing on specific healthcare topics.
Students say that working with their health mentors provides them a unique patient perspective outside of textbooks and the classroom.
Health mentors should live in the Metro Vancouver area and be comfortable discussing their health experiences. The program starts in September 2018 and runs until December 2019.
Robin Mitchell passed away on May 27, 2018. Robin's husband, Jory, has been a UBC Health Mentor since 2014.
Together they shared their experiences of early onset Alzheimer's disease with students. Thank you for letting our students into your lives so they could learn from your experiences.
A celebration of Life will be held in Vancouver at Culloden Mennonite Church on June 25th at 7 p.m. Donations can be made to the Alzheimer Society of BC.
