Newcastle University School of Medicine are introducing a new service called Patients as Partners in Healthcare Education which is aimed at increasing medical and other healthcare student’s exposure to patients in their pre-clinical years.
The focus for the initiative is to allow students to develop the vital communication and clinical skills that are required when dealing with patients and public. Students have limited exposure to patients during the early years of training and can then find it difficult to adapt to real life situations when faced with these in clinical years.
Could you help train the healthcare professionals of the future?
Newcastle University School of Medicine trains a range of students who will work within our NHS. Our students will become doctors, physician associates and clinical scientists.
The Patients as Partners in Healthcare Education service aims to involve patients and volunteers from across our region. Working with patients and volunteers is a hugely valuable part of our student’s training that helps them to develop excellent communication and examination skills as well as developing their bedside manner
We want to hear from people with lived experience of healthcare or interested volunteers who feel they could support our student’s to develop these important skills.
