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The patient is the teacher: ambulatory patient‐centred student‐based interprofessional education where the patient is the teacher who improves patient care outcomes
Author(s) -
Fiddes P. J.,
Brooks P. M.,
Komesaroff P.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.12197
Subject(s) - medicine , interprofessional education , ambulatory , medical education , patient education , patient care , medical home , health care , nursing , primary care , family medicine , economics , economic growth
The patient's role as the key to medical student education was enunciated by Osler in 1903 and remains central to the broader imperative of interprofessional education. Interprofessional education needs to progress from the patient's passive bedside or office role to assume a more active and primary role by his/her participation as the teacher, immersed in student education. To date, the achievements in interprofessional education have been limited, but ambulatory patient‐centred learning opportunities involving direct student to patient dialogues and mixed health professional student engagement with patients as teachers are emerging within various interprofessional student clinic formats. There is good evidence that such approaches lead to actual improvements in patient outcomes.