EVENING the frayed edges is the first anthology to go to press by the Vancouver based Recovery Narrative Project. The Recovery Narrative Project is a peer-led writing circle for mental health consumers who wish to share their stories of strength and recovery. Click here for the Recovery Narrative Project blog.
The Community & Patient Fair is featured in the March 2010 edition of the UBC Medical Journal, “a student-run academic journal with a goal to engage students in dialogue in medicine.”
Learning from our Future Patients
by Amber Jarviea
Vancouver Fraser Medical Program 2012, UBC Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, BC
Highlights from our day long event last year:
The “Health Care Involves Everybody” Fair held on October 29th, 2009 at the UBC Life Sciences Centre as part of the UBC “Celebrate Learning Week” was a huge success. Students from many different faculties and disciplines attended the Fair and expressed positive outcomes from their interactions with community members.
We had 20 community health organizations attend the Fair (≈50 member reps) with 200+ students in attendance (from a wide range of departments – not only health disciplines). 40 Health Services faculty members also attended and intermingled with community members and students.
We had wonderful donors, student and UBC staff volunteers that made the day a success.
The “Health Care Involves Everybody: a fair to bridge patient, community and campus expertise” is an interprofessional event for UBC health and human service students and faculty to connect with and hear from 20+ community health organizations and individuals living with chronic health concerns.
Brought to you by Community and University of British Columbia partners through support from the Patient and Community Voices Collaborative, Community Liaison for Intergrated Service and Study and the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund.
This event is part of the Celebrate Learning Week events http://celebratelearning.ubc.ca/
Supported by:
The Division of Health Care Communications
http://www.chd.ubc.ca/dhcc/
The College of Health Disciplines at UBC
http://www.chd.ubc.ca/
Community Liaison for Integrated Study and Service
http://www.familymed.ubc.ca/shafikdharamsi/CLISS_Home.htm
The Patient & Community Voices workshops are featured on the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) website. Go to TLEF website to read more
“Just to hear the lived experience from someone’s mouth is always great … 10 minutes of that seems to be worth about 2 hours of it coming from an instructor’s mouth” (Occupational Therapy student, Mental health workshop)
“I really enjoyed that the teachers were patients, family members and partners. Seeing all of the different perspectives made me realize the extent to which epilepsy can affect someone’s life in many ways – financially, socially, emotionally.” (Medical student, Epilepsy workshop)
