Patients teach students: partners in arthritis education

Abstract

Patient Partners are at least equal to Consultant Rheumatologists in the teaching of musculoskeletal examination techniques for arthritis.

Musculoskeletal examination teaching by patients versus physicians: How are they different? Neither better nor worse, but complementary

“…Interestingly, there are many similarities between the findings of the previous studies and our findings, despite the differences in methodology, adding validity, and credibility to the results. Examples of findings in our study that are consistent with those of the Hendry, Schrieber, and Bryce focus group study include the finding that patient educators provide more systematic and thorough teaching, give immediate and specific feedback, ensure each student has a turn to practice, and provided a less direct knowledge-based questioning (Hendry et al 1999). We also report that the patient educators started at a basic level and then elaborated compared to the physician tutors who sometimes pitched their sessions too high.…”

“…Previous qualitative research on MSK teaching, and specifically on PP Õ IA patient educators, has primarily been limited to reports of participants' experiences (Gruppen et al 1996;Bell et al 1997;Hendry et al 1999). This study is the first to compare patient educators to physician tutor teaching by directly observing and analysing the teaching sessions through a collective case study approach.…”

“…There are two mixed methods studies of PP Õ IA patient educators that include qualitative methods. The first held focus groups of both patient educators and students to determine their impressions of the patient educators versus physician-led teaching sessions (Hendry et al 1999). The authors report that the students liked that the patient educators could describe what students should be perceiving, that they felt less ''intimidated'' and that they had greater responsibility for establishing rapport with the patient.…”

Partage du savoir expérientiel : regard sur la contribution des patients partenaires d’enseignement en sciences infirmières

“…L'expérience rappelle aux étudiants que les futurs professionnels de la santé ne peuvent être évalués exclusivement sur leur capacité à mémoriser des données, mais aussi sur leur raisonnement et leur empathie dans leur communication avec le patient. En ce qui concerne le niveau de compétence, une étude australienne a comparé des groupes avec ou sans patient partenaire chez les étudiants en médecine dans un cours sur l'examen musculosquelettique en contexte d'arthrite (Hendry, Schrieber, & Bryce, 1999). La comparaison a permis de constater que les étudiants à qui un patient partenaire avait enseigné avaient au moins les mêmes habiletés que ceux dont le cours avait été donné par un rhumatologue.…”

Teaching medical students about chronic disease: patient‐led teaching in rheumatoid arthritis

“…Studies have already looked at Allied Health Professionals and patients teaching medical students, the latter often called 'patient partners' or 'patient educators' . This work has mostly looked at the teaching of examination skills, rather than the effect of chronic disease (Haq et al, 2004;Hendry et al, 1999;HumphreyMurto et al, 2004;Raj et al, 2006;Schrieber et al, 2000;Smith et al, 2000;Wykurz et al, 2002).…”