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Tips for Developing and Maintaining Successful Patient and Family Faculty Programs

  • Ensure that patients and family members participate in the planning process from the beginning.
  • Identify clearly stated goals and objectives for the program.
  • Conduct outreach efforts continuously to recruit patient and family faculty members.
  • Provide orientation to familiarize patient and family faculty members with the concepts and goals of the program and/or institution.
  • Provide general and role-specific training for family faculty members.
  • Offer ongoing support for both family faculty and the program ’ s trainees.
  • Develop strategies for compensation, reimbursement, and acknowledgement for patient and family faculty.
  • Anticipate and plan for resistance to change at all levels.
  • Develop ongoing evaluation processes.

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