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Abstract
Health-care providers and educators are inherently empathetic, compassionate, experienced professionals who entered their profession to assure the complementary missions of public health and health care. These missions work to ensure conditions in which people can be healthy via disease and injury prevention, health promotion, and timely, effective, coordinated care (1). The skills necessary to achieve these crucial outcomes (ie, listening to the patient and their family, exhibiting empathy, and understanding the significance of the social determinants of health, etc) are routinely taught in health professions’ education.
To highlight the necessity for these representative competencies covered throughout the course of health professions’ education, the personal experience of one of the author’s children is reported as a narration. The purpose of communicating this patient experience is to remind health-care providers: (a) about the importance of not only listening but hearing the parents of our patients and the patients themselves, (b) to actively practice the art and skill of empathy as the health-care setting can be overwhelming for patients and their families, and (c) to consider the impact of the social determinants of health on one’s health status to date. This 5-part patient experience serves to strengthen our commitment to assure that we practice what we are taught with the goal to coproduce health with our patients and their families.
Department
Health Management and Policy
Publication Date
4-18-2018
Journal Title
Journal of Patient Experience
Publisher
Sage
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Caron, R.M. and O’Connor, RJ. Are we practicing what we are taught in health professions’ education? Coproducing health care. Journal of Patient Experience, 5(4), 310-313, doi: 10.1177/2374373518769117, 2018.
Comments
This is an article published by Sage in Journal of Patient Experience in 2018, available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373518769117