Patient and Community Voices workshops were featured in the Spring 2011 edition of the UBC Medicine magazine.  The Spring 2011 edition can be found here.

“Patients have long been a part of the education of health professionals, but they have usually been relegated to a passive role, to be queried and examined — serving, in the words of Associate Professor of Medicine Angela Towle, as “audio-visual aids.”

Not so in the Patient and Community Voices project.

Elevating patients into the role of educators, the project seeks to have patients, their relatives and caregivers, and other community members take an active part in the making of physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, audiologists, speech therapists, midwives and other health professionals.”