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Medical students' learning from patient-led teaching: experiential versus biomedical knowledge
Ann-Helen Henriksen1, Charlotte Ringsted
1Centre for Clinical Education, University of Copenhagen and Capital Region, Rigshospitalet, 5404, Blegdamsvej 9, Copenhagen, Denmark, ann-helen.henriksen@rh.regionh.dk.
Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice
|April 18, 2013
Summary
Medical students navigate learning from patient instructors, valuing their experiential knowledge but questioning its credibility against traditional biomedical education. This highlights the complexity of integrating patient-led teaching in healthcare training.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Qualitative Research
- Patient-Centered Care
Background:
- Healthcare education traditionally relies on faculty-led instruction.
- There is a growing interest in incorporating patient perspectives into medical training.
- Patient instructors (PIs) offer unique experiential knowledge.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore medical students' perceptions of learning from patient instructors.
- To investigate student experiences in combined faculty-led and patient-led teaching sessions.
- To understand the negotiation between experiential and biomedical knowledge in student learning.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative explorative study design.
- Focus group interviews with medical students.
- Analysis guided by a model of learning from patient instructors, using constant comparison.
Main Results:
- Students recognized the value of patient instructors' experiential knowledge and patient-centered approach.
- Students expressed unfamiliarity and skepticism towards unstructured, experiential learning.
- A negotiation was observed regarding the importance of experiential versus biomedical knowledge.
Conclusions:
- Involving patients as teachers in healthcare education is complex.
- Complementing faculty-led teaching with patient-led teaching requires careful consideration of patient autonomy.
- Further discussion is needed on balancing different knowledge types in medical training.
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