Patient-physician partnership

We acknowledge that our complex health systems, with all their challenges, are creating unprecedented levels of strain on our health professionals. We also acknowledge the numerous competing priorities in medical education and clinical practice. It is important that professional competencies promote humility in our graduates as well as their willingness to focus care on the patient as a person. Hence, our goal is for our graduates to demonstrate the strong foundational skills necessary to pursue productive and fulfilling patient-physician relationships. We believe this goal must be embedded at all levels of the program. It also must be integrated at all stages of their medical learning journey, in curriculum planning, in research and in clinical practice, in teaching and in continued learning over a career. To do this meaningfully, patient partners must participate in discussions and decisions that will impact program and curriculum planning.

Objective 1

Define patient-physician relationship in the context of the communities we serve.

Objective 2

Instill graduates with the humility to keep patient values and preferences and patient-physician relationships central in their professional interactions.

Objective 3

Integrate and maximize opportunities to include patient perspectives at all stages of the curriculum.

Lead by: Marion Koch
Collaborators:

Guyl猫ne Th茅riault
Joanna Caron
Goldie Marmor
Donald Boudreau
Patient Representative

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