Walk With Me: A Patient and Family Engaged Exploration of Health & The Health Care System

Catalog description

This patient-engaged course for pre-clerkship students places patients, families, and caregivers front and center on the shared journey to explore health from a person-centered perspective and increase understanding of the challenges of managing optimal health in a complex healthcare system. The curriculum is organized around a monthly workshop series. Each month we explore a different health systems science topic through expert lectures incorporating the perspectives of patients and family caregivers, with time to engage in discussion and explore person-centered solutions to real-world problems. Students are paired with a patient partner for 3 quarters and meet 2 to 3 times each quarter outside of class to explore the patient experience, in clinical and non-clinical settings according to shared interests and schedules. This course fulfills the ECE requirement for first-year medical students.