Topics - Medical Education
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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