Medical Education - Creating Patient and Family Faculty Programs
“...I have come to the realization that sharing our lives with the very people who help us sustain life is a healing experience. It validates us, not just as patients and parents, but as human beings.”
—Sheryl Ogburn
Family Faculty
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Family Faculty
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Patient and family faculty programs are a major means through which patient- and family-centered professional education can become a reality. In these programs, patients and families work side by side with health professionals in the education of medical students, nursing students, and other trainees, and in the provision of inservice training as well.