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Patients and Surgical Education: Rethinking Learning, Practice and Patient Engagement

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Patient involvement offers many opportunities for surgical education. This chapter presents ideas and examples to stimulate new ways of designing educational experiences. Patient involvement in medical education is presented as more than storytelling; it is how patients can be active teachers, curriculum developers and assessors. Involving patients may change surgical education and even surgical practice. In particular, patient involvement may shift (1) where the lesson starts and ends, (2) who decides what ‘good’ looks like, (3) what skills need to be learnt, (4) the role of the patient and (5) how to provide a good surgical service.

Sadly, Dr Rosamund Snow passed away in early 2017. Please take a moment to read her obituary in the British Medical Journal (BMJ 2017;346:j850). Rosamund was a compelling thinker, a fierce advocate and a delightful colleague. We shall miss her.

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  1. Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

    Margaret Bearman

  2. Centre for Team Based Practice & Learning in Health Care, King’s College London, London, UK

    Rick Iedema

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash Institute for Health and Clinical Education, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry & Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Debra Nestel

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Kirsten Dalrymple

  3. Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    John T. Paige

  4. Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Jefferson Strategic Ventures, Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Rajesh Aggarwal

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Snow, R., Bearman, M., Iedema, R. (2019). Patients and Surgical Education: Rethinking Learning, Practice and Patient Engagement. In: Nestel, D., Dalrymple, K., Paige, J., Aggarwal, R. (eds) Advancing Surgical Education. Innovation and Change in Professional Education, vol 17. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3128-2_18

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