04/15/2023
Time for an update. Extremely happy share this article I was privileged to co-author with senior Complex Care Pediatricians at SickKids. It was published last week in "Pediatrics" the peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Titled, "Family Partnership in Continuing Medical Education: A Collaborative Experience" it examines Key Learnings from a continuing medical education webinar called "C6" that was co-designed and co-delivered by clinicians and family/patient partners.
The webinar was such a unique experience because it was a true co-design/delivery model structured on a flattening of the hierarchies between medical professionals and patients/families, much like Family-Centred Care but in this case directed to continuing medical education.
It was a fantastic example of a model called "dialogic education" which the paper describes as "rooted in nonhierarchical conversation, incorporates patient experiences to deepen learners’ perspectives and values through reflection." So rather than a top-down, master-teacher-imparting-knowledge approach, it's an educational model of equal partners bringing their perspectives and knowledge to share and engage in mutual dialogue and from that meeting, new knowledge or improved knowledge grows. That said, it's not pushing this as "the" model but an effective (and novel) model for "these" type of needs.
I created a short blog post about it with a link to the AAP article. There's also an energetic short video about the webinar based on clips of the family-leader-educators and the clinician-educators from the actual webinar sessions:
http://relativestrangers.ca/co-author-sickkids-family-partnership-in-medical-education-article-in-american-acadmeny-of-pediatrics-journal/
